Good evening and welcome to Eurosport's LIVE coverage of the Spanish Liga fixture between Espanyol and Barcelona. We'll bring you all the action as it happens. Kick off is at 7.45pm.

Well, that match was all about Messi. One of his best ever performances in a Barcelona shirt, and there have been a few down the years. His two freekicks were highlight reel moments. Up against that sort of brilliance, Espanyol just didn't stand a chance against their city rivals.

FULL TIME: Espanyol 0-4 Barcelona

Busquets also took a tackle to the back, but he seems to be fine to continue until the end of the match. At least that tackle was made by an Espanyol player and not Vidal!

That was almost a blunder. Vidal went in for a tackle and ended up sliding straight into Lenglet, his own player. That ended up being a pretty bad tackle on the Barcelona defender.

Five minutes of stoppage time to be played at the end of the match.

Granero has a freekick about the same distance out that Messi scored his opener from. Instead, he clips a cross into the box, but the header is straight at Ter Stegen. Pretty tame in the end.

This has been an outstanding performance from Barcelona, and from Messi. When you have a player like him, you always have a chance. What are we going to do when he's no longer around?

Denis is widely expected to leave Barcelona when the January transfer window opens. Is Valverde trying to put the midfielder in the shop window? He has hardly featured this season.

Alena must have thought he'd get some minutes in this second half. The youngster was impressive during the week in the Copa del Rey, but he's still a peripheral figure in the league.

Rakitic's game is over and he comes off to be replaced by Denis. He'll get the last seven minutes.

Should have hit the target! Sanchez jumpe highest to beat his man to a corner kick delivery into the penalty area. He might have jumped too early, though, and heads over.

The RCDE Stadium has pretty much emptied in this second half. The home fans don't want to watch their team being dismantled so brutally by their closest rivals. Sore one.

On comes Munir for the final 10 minutes and he replaces Suarez, who is grimacing as he walks off.

Didac enters the referee's book for dragging Messi as he dribbled past the Espanyol man.

I guess that's why VAR is so useful, but it took a long, long time for the officials to reach their decision. The fans inside the stadium seemed confused at what was happening.