Barcelona won 5-0 at Levante yesterday.
Luis Enrique's early leaders made it four wins from four and kept a fourth straight clean sheet as goals from Neymar, Ivan Rakitic, Sandro, Pedro and Lionel Messi demonstrated the wide gulf in class between the two sides.
There were, however, two moments of concern for the Catalan giants, with Messi missing a penalty after Loukas Vyntra was dismissed and Neymar making a premature exit in the second half having turned his ankle.
Enrique said: "There are no two games that are the same, we have to find solutions. The team has more fluency but from the start the side tried to present solutions to the problems posed by our opponents today. They made things difficult for us but we resolved the issues well."
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