Barcelona returned to winning ways after their first defeat of the season last week, beating Racing Santander 4-0. They are now five points clear of Real Madrid pending Sunday’s games.
Iniesta scored the opener, his first goal of the season, and then Henry, Márquez and substitute Thiago added to the tally to give Barcelona a comfortable victory.
Sevilla, a bit up and down this season, consolidated the all important fourth spot with a 1-3 victory at Mallorca, the first points the islanders have dropped at home all season.
The islanders took an early lead through Mario Suárez, but Sevilla squared things a few minutes later, Jesús Navas the scorer.
Negredo was then given his marching orders for a tackle from behind and the Andalucians were down to ten men. However, not wishing to take unfair advantage, Mallorca’s Ramis got himself a red card on the stroke of half time to make it a ten aside second half.
Dragutinovic put Sevilla in the lead with a free kick and Perotti made sure of the three points a few minutes later.