Attack: good. Defence: Not so good. That's the case with Barcelona at the moment. But the Blaugrana beat Valencia 3 - 2 with Lionel Messi scoring a hat-trick. 

Real Madrid also won in a league where a draw is a defeat for the Big Two.

Meanwhile in Serie A, most of the bigger clubs got wins with three points each for Juventus, Inter Milan, AC Milan, Fiorentina, Napoli and Roma.

And two of Roma's goals from Miralem Pjanic and Adem Ljajic were sublime, especially the Pjanic lob...