Barcelona’s Lionel Messi hit his 400th career goal for the La Liga leader deep into stoppage time to seal a 2-0 win over a Valencia side that will rue its missed chances on Saturday.
Barca’s Uruguay striker Luis Suarez continued his lethal form with a low strike inside the area after being set up by Messi with less than a minute on the clock.
Messi scored on the counter-attack deep into added time for his landmark 400th goal, knocking the ball into the net after his first shot was saved by keeper Diego Alves.
Valencia had missed a golden chance to equalise in the 10th minute when Dani Parejo’s penalty was saved by Claudio Bravo after Gerard Pique had barged into the back of Rodrigo Moreno.
Valencia’s Paco Alcacer also hit a post as Barcelona hung on and then in a second half which was played at a slower tempo Messi also struck the woodwork with a free-kick.
Earlier on Friday, Levante twice came from a goal down to hold Espanyol to a 2-2 draw.
Victor Casadesus salvaged a point for Levante when he took a pass from Juan Francisco Garcia to score in the 88th minute.
Espanyol midfielder Lucas Vazquez opened the scoring when he pounced on goalkeeper Diego Marino’s clearance of Victor Sanchez’s shot in the 18th, but Simao Mate levelled the match by heading in Nabil El Zhar’s corner four minutes later.
Espanyol took the lead again through Felipe Caicedo just before halftime.
The results: La Liga: On Saturday: Barcelona 2 (Suarez 1, Messi 90+4) beat Valencia 0.
On Friday: Levante 2 (Mate 22, Casadesus 88) drew with Espanyol 2 (Vazquez 18, F. Caicedo 45+1).
Bundesliga: On Saturday: Borussia Dortmund 3 (Mkhitaryan 48, Aubameyang 55, Kagawa 80) beat Paderborn 0; Bayer Leverkusen 4 (Toprak 20, Brandt 40, Papadopoulos 49, Kiessling 70) beat Hanover 0; Hoffenheim 0 lost to Bayern Munich 2 (Rode 38, Beck 90+4-og); Hertha Berlin 0 drew with Cologne 0; Freiburg 2 (Mehmedi 81, Schmid 90+1) lost to Mainz 3 (Okazaki 39, 45+1, Yunus Malli 83).
On Friday: Eintracht Frankfurt 0 drew with Borussia Monchengladbach 0.
Premier League: Crystal Palace 0 lost to West Bromwich Albion 2 (Morrison 2, Gardner 53); Everton 1 (Mirallas 29) beat Burnley 0; Leicester City 2 (Ulloa 15, King 89) beat Swansea City 0; Stoke City 2 (Diouf 47, Adam 84) beat Southampton 1 (Schneiderlin 22).
