Barcelona draw against Las Palmas

Barcelona dropped points for the third time in their last five La Liga matches as they drew 1-1 at battling Las Palmas. Ernesto Valverde’s group stay unbeaten in their residential division yet now possess only a five-point advantage in front of facilitating second-set Atletico Madrid on Sunday.

They proceeded through Lionel Messi’s free kick yet a disputably granted penalty, either for Sergi Roberto’s pull on Matias Aguirregaray or a Lucas Digne handball, was changed over by Jonathan Calleri as Las Palmas asserted a point against Barca unexpectedly since 2002.

The choice was the main penalty to be shrieked against Barcelona in La Liga since February 2016, 79 games back. Messi and Luis Suarez had scored five times between them against Girona at the end of the week and ought to have gotten where they cleared out off in the eighth moment.