5 special moments that Barcelona fans would love to relive again?

#4 5-0 Real Madrid

This is perhaps the greatest moment in Barcelona’s recent history. No amount of trophies could equate to the joy of desecrating your arch-rivals at home. It all started with a neat piece of footballing genius from Xavi Hernandez.

At the bottom of the centre-circle in their own half, Xavi Hernandez evaded an on-rushing Karim Benzema and played an effortless ball to his nearest team-mate. The ball was received by Sergio Busquets who then released it to Lionel Messi with his first touch.

Messi, then, found Xavi at the tilt of centre-circle in Madrid’s half, who, in turn, passed it back to the Argentine and sped ahead between Ricardo Carvalho and Marcelo. Meanwhile, Lionel Messi, now himself at the incline of the circle in Madrid’s half, delicately smooched the ball to Andres Iniesta on his left.

This is the point where time nearly stopped for the World Cup winner as he spotted Xavi in between the Brazilian and the Portuguese and executed the most perfectly-paced through-ball you will ever see. The ball eludes the last-ditch sliding tackle from Marcelo, but not completely as it clips the former Fluminese starlet and then finds its way towards Xavi’s heel.

The ball hits the wizard’s heel and takes the aerial course to fall kindly in front of him; all he had to do was fling it over Iker Casillas – and he did. 1-0 for Barcelona, 5-0 at the end of the day with goals from Lionel Messi, Andres Iniesta, Pedro and Carles Puyol.

After the conclusion of the game, Gerard Pique raised his hand with an open fist to stretch out his fingers to indicate ‘five’ in an attempt further humiliate the Blancos.