Cristiano Ronaldo

Real Madrid have let a great opportunity slip through their fingers tonight, after coming out of the Camp Nou with a 2-1 loss against their archrivals Barcelona. The Merengues created several good chances throughout the Clasico, but Cristiano Ronaldo's goal in the first half ended up being insufficient to still rescue any point from the Condal City.

Real Madrid's mission of winning La Liga this year may have gotten seriously compromised this Sunday night, after seeing Barcelona defeating them 2-1 at the Camp Nou and extending the league lead to 4 points. This has been one those open Clasicos where either team could have won it, but in the end, it was Barça who came out on top and who secured 3 very important points in the title fight. Mathieu scored the opener early in the first half, but the hosts saw their lead being cancelled minutes later by Cristiano Ronaldo, who scored his 31st goal in La Liga this season (he's now only 1 goal behind Lionel Messi). Luis Suárez set the final score around the 56th minute of the game and the Merengues would basically run out of ideas from that point onwards...