FC Barcelona — Best pictures!

With Barcelona’s 1:0 home win over UD Almeria in La Liga yesterday, Lionel Messi (pictured left) and Xavi (pictured right) consolidated their respective leads in the FTBL world and European rankings of midfielders.

Barcelona netted another victory yesterday in La Liga over UD Almeria (1:0), with goalkeeper Victor Valdes completing another encounter without conceding a goal. In his last 10 games, Valdes has kept a clean sheet in 8. Nonetheless, the Catalans’s number

Barcelona’s Swedish star Zlatan Ibrahimovic (pictured) will have a perfect opportunity to return in the top echelon of the FTBL World Ranking of forwards, our most prestigious chart, if he can produce a strong performance when the Catalans host mid-table

Wolfsburg’s Bosnian striker Edin Dzeko managed to hold on to a spot in the FTBL World Top 23 of strikers thanks to his goal, despite the German champions' 1:2 loss to Manchester United at Old Trafford.

As our analysts predicted, Chelsea’s Frank Lampard’s (pictured second from the left) reign at the top of the FTBL ranking of European midfielders was rather brief, as the Blues yesterday struggled to overcome modest APOEL Nicosia (1:0) in the Champions