Good afternoon and welcome to Sports Mole's live commentary of the La Liga clash between Barcelona and Celta Vigo from Camp Nou.
The Spanish champions have won their last three in the league without conceding a goal to open up a three-point advantage at the summit.
Celta, meanwhile, currently sit 10th in Spain's top flight on 21 points, but are only five points off the top six.
Stay tuned for live minute-by-minute commentary of the action.
BARCA: Ter Stegen; Semedo, Pique, Lenglet, Alba; Vidal, Rakitic, Busquets; Dembele, L Suarez, Messi
CELTA: Ruben; Mallo, Araujo, Costas, Mazan; Boufal, Okay, Jozabed, Mendez; Aspas, Gomez
🔊 Ernesto Valverde: "We want to round off the year in style in front of our own fans, but we expect it to be tough"#BarçaCelta 🔵🔴 #ForçaBarça ! pic.twitter.com/zsdQI6Cs7T— FC Barcelona (@FCBarcelona) December 22, 2018
🔙⚽#BarçaCelta memories...
😍 @Guaje7Villa @andresiniesta8
🔵🔴ForçaBarça #BarçaCelta pic.twitter.com/honX4fzPRp— FC Barcelona (@FCBarcelona) December 22, 2018
🔊 Hear what the boss had to say about @JeisonMurillo19
— FC Barcelona (@FCBarcelona) December 22, 2018
👉 https://t.co/MXT3L8LtCX
🔵🔴 #ForçaBarça
Atletico have beaten Espanyol at the Wanda Metropolitano to join Barcelona on 34 points at the top of La Liga. Antoine Griezmann scored the only goal of the match from the penalty spot.
⏩⏩ Barça and Celta drew 2–2 both times they met last year!
— FC Barcelona (@FCBarcelona) December 21, 2018
What'll happen this time? 🤷♂️
Who'll score the goals? ⚽️ pic.twitter.com/gkLX62OfYz
¡Larrivey marcando y el @RCCelta asaltando el Camp Nou en #LaLiga 73 años después! 😱#BarçaCelta pic.twitter.com/ooQndXBzSQ
— LaLiga (@LaLiga) December 22, 2018
BARCA: Ter Stegen; Semedo, Pique, Lenglet, Alba; Vidal, Rakitic, Busquets; Dembele, L Suarez, Messi
CELTA: Ruben; Mallo, Araujo, Costas, Mazan; Boufal, Okay, Jozabed, Mendez; Aspas, Gomez
👋 A traditional welcome for @JeisonMurillo19 👋
🔵🔴 #ForçaBarça pic.twitter.com/R8NMKhjTV8— FC Barcelona (@FCBarcelona) December 21, 2018
Celta's recent record against Barcelona is actually quite good, but we expect the Spanish champions to end 2018 with a win on home soil. Messi to score in a 3-1 success.