Granada 1-4 Barcelona: Barca stroll past La Liga strugglers

Barcelona sank 10-man Granada to remain two points behind La Liga leaders Real Madrid with a 4-1 victory at Los Carmenes on Sunday.

Luis Suarez opened the scoring on the stroke of half-time before Granada substitute Jeremie Boga equalised in the 50th minute, but Barca regained the lead and went on to see off the hosts comfortably.

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Paco Alcacer netted the second for Luis Enrique's men in the 64th minute and Granada were unable to find a way back into the game as an own goal from Matthieu Saunier seven minutes from time followed Uche Henry Agbo's sending-off just a minute previous.

A simple stoppage-time tap-in from Neymar rounded off a dominant second half to condemn Lucas Alcaraz's team to their fifth defeat in seven games, leaving them struggling second-from-bottom in the league.

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The away side started well and Suarez made his presence felt early to force a smart save from Guillermo Ochoa after just seven minutes.

The Mexican was on hand to keep out another effort from the Argentine 20 minutes later with a brilliant double-save, palming away a shot from the edge of the box before making himself big to deny Suarez the rebound and push the ball wide.

Barca continued to press and their persistence paid off in the 44th minute when Suarez met a brilliant pass from Jordi Alba to lift the ball beautifully on the half-volley over Ochoa, who left his goal wide open.

Granada came out fighting after the break and were rewarded when, after some neat build-up place, Boga stayed composed to position himself at the right of the box before firing a low shot past Marc-Andre ter Stegen.

But Barcelona were soon in front once more when Suarez played in Alcacer, who added the second with a powerful shot from close-range for his fourth goal of the season.

And it went from bad to worse for the hosts when Watford loanee Agbo was shown red after receiving two yellow cards in as many minutes.

Saunier added to Granada's woes a minute later when he deflected Rakitic's strike, which looked to be going wide, straight into the bottom corner.

Neymar made it four with the simplest of tap-ins, meeting an inviting cross from Alcacer at the back post in the final moments of the game.