Good evening and welcome to LIVE coverage of Barcelona against Deportivo La Coruna from the Camp Nou. A 7pm (GMT) start in this one.

The final whistle sounds! Not the greatest of performances, but Barca get the job done. They are now 14 points clear of second-placed Atletico Madrid with nine games remaining this season.

We are into three minutes of time added on.

Nice piece of skill by Pinto as he beats a white shirt before clearing the danger from Puyol's passback.

A seventh defeat in eight games for Deportivo, who will remain bottom of the table and continue to stare relegation in the face.

Utter class from the little genius and that is surely going to send the Barca fans into the night happier than they would have been.

GOAL! Messi scores in his 17th league game in a row as he races onto the one-two with Alves. A lovely chip over Aranzubía. 51 goals for the season.

Song loses the ball under pressure from Dominguez. Alves then flies into a strong challenge on Camunas.

Ball breaks to Messi from the cutback by Alves, but he fails to make contact with the ball.

Aguilar taen out of the game late by Song, who is booked for that challenge.

Pinto takes a bit of a chance as he knocks the ball across the face of his own goal to pick out Alves.

Pablo well positioned again to cut out the run of Tello, who has not really been supplied with enough of the ball in this second half.

All of a bit of struggle this evening. Certainly a different mood from Barca's 5-4 win away from home against Depor in October.

Juan Domínguez replaces Paulo Assunção for the visiting side.

An offside flag is raised against Sanchez. That Depor defence has been well organised this evening.

Think Barca are going to have to raise their levels by several gears if they are to recover the two-goal deficit against Milan in the Champions League on Tuesday.

Assuncao brushes Messi off the ball. Was looking at the man. Messi chips the ball in, but cleared by Depor.

Barca also opt to shuffle their pack as Sergio Busquets is introduced to take over from Fabregas. Not sure if that change is very popular.

Diogo Salomao has replaced Nélson Oliveira for the visiting side.

Iniesta sees a shot saved by Aranzubía. Messi scores from the rebound, but is offside.

Lionel Messi has scored eight league goals against Depor, but only two on home soil.