Sanchez's hat-trick leads Barcelona to win four goals over Elche regaining the top of La Liga

With minimal effort... In a game like a formal training, Barcelona won over Elche four clean goals in the Camp Nou stadium within the round (18)of the Spanish league, to regain the top of La Liga after raising its tally to 49 points, just ahead on goal difference with Atletico Madrid, in anticipation of the confrontation, which will gather them next Saturday.

Barca scored first goal in the seventh minute through Alexis Sanchez, and Pedro Rodriguez doubled the result scoring in the minute (16), and Sanchez returned again scoring two goals in the minute (63 and 69), and Xavi missed  penalty shoot in the minute (48).

Barcelona did not put a lot of time in the search for a goal, and it succeeded in the seventh minute in achieving his goal by Alexis Sanchez, who did not find it difficult to score by a long pass from Jordi Alba, which it passed in front of all defenders inside the box of Antonio goalkeeper.

the goal  Gave more confidence on the performance of the Catalans, and it became clear that the game on hand not only to reap the three points, but to a wide win, while Elche tried to prove his presence in the game through a serious attack of Bouake per minute (14) the crosser prevented guests from the tie.

Barcelona punished Elche immediately on the attack carried out by, and scored in minute 16 second goal by Pedro Rodriguez, who received a great pass from Fabregas, made him right in goalkeeper Antonio, who facilitated his task by hasty exit of his goal, make no difficulty in eluding and put the ball in the net. 

After the second goal Barcelona became fighting game like a formal training session, and his stars raced in wasted easy opportunities, and their performance trends to show, to miss out on the team several chances that could have doubled the score, such as it was squandered by Fabregas per minute (28), and Pedro and Iniesta per minute (37) and finally Sanchez in the final minute of the first half, which ended in favor of the Catalans two straight.

In the second half, Barcelona continued to stroll in under the clear humility in the level of the opponent, and continued to refuse to register a third goal, until he got a penalty for blocking Fabregas per minute (48), Xavi shot narrowly wide of the result remains the same.

The pace of the game has not changed, and Barcelona continued wasting opportunities, this time was by Iniesta per minute (60), and Elche conducted the first substitutions through de Moral instead of Fidel per minute (63).

Alexis Sanchez ended Barcelona loss a series of easy opportunities per minute (63), and succeeded in adding a third goals of the Catalans, after a cross from Pedro Rodriguez easily placed in the net, recording a third goals of Barcelona.

Per minute (66) Xavi left the pitch to be replaced by Sergei Roberto in initial changes in Barcelona, while Fran Escriba Elche coach responded by pushing Xabi Marquez instead of Carlos Sanchez.

Chilean Sanchez determined to score “hat trick" in the game and reached his goal per minute (69) from a free kick shot it in a pretty hard way to the top corner of Antonio Elche goalkeeper, scoring for Barca 4-0.

Sanchez Left the pitch per minute (74) and was replaced by Cristian Tello in the Barcelona second changes, Săpunaru came out from Elche replacing by Sergio Martinez, Neymar replaced Pedro per minute (81), and Iniesta asked for a penalty per minute (83), which it is called by Neymar per minute (88), but the referee did not award anything, to end the meeting Barcelona win 4-0.