Welcome to Eurosport-Yahoo!s live coverage of the La Liga clash between Barcelona and Getafe at the Camp Nou!

Andres Iniesta with a late challenge on Parejo in the centre circle. He's was fortunate not to be booked there.

Barca have won their last four meetings with Getafe in Catalonia in all competitions.

When these two sides met at the Colleseum Alfonso Perez back in November Messi, Daviid Villa and Pedro all scored in a 3-1 win. Manu got the goal for Getafe.

Messi now picks out Villa with a neat ball through and Codina is off his line to gather. He can't hold on to the ball and it breaks loose in the area, but the play ends with a goal kick to the visitors.

Barca do break to great effect as Xavi picks out Messi with a great ball and the little Argentine swivles and hits an overhead kick! Codina spread himself well to block the effort..

Barca almost get caught cold as a long flat ball upfield beats Alves and Manu is on to it. The ball runs through for Arizmendi, but his control lets him down and Barca can launch the counter.

Patient play from Barca as they have Getafe pinned back in their own final third. The champions win the first corner of the match.

Adriano knocks the ball past Victor sanchez and darts into the box, but Codina is off his line quickly to gather up the ball.

Getafe have only won once at the Camp Nou in La Liga, a 2-0 win in the 2007-08 season. (Opta)

Gabi Milito heads away the free-kick which is sent in from deep. Bojan has already ddropped very deep in search of the ball early on. This is only his sixth league start of the season.

Barca yet to give Getafe as much as a touch. Now they have the ball and Manu charges down the left flank and is tripped cynically by Dani Alves. An early booking for the Brazilian.

Barca kick-off and we're underway!

The players are out on the pitch. Before the game kicks off, a message is shown on the big screen in tribute to those who losts their lives in the recent disaster in Japan.

That match between Mallorca and Zaragoza has finished 1-0 to the Islanders - courtesy of Jonathan de Guzman's free-kick - meaning Getafe will only move one place up the table if they do the near unthinkable and beat Barca this evening.

Barcelona appear to have got one of the best draws in the quarter-finals of the Champions League after being paired with Ukrainian side Shakhtar, but club director andoni zubizarreta is not taking them for granted.

Barca star Lionel Messi plays despite still having treatment on a bruised knee from last weekend while the injured Carles Puyol, Pedro and Maxwell all miss out. French defender Eric Abidal is recovering from surgery to remove a tumour from his liver and is, understandably, also sidelined, which means Gabi milito and Adriano line up at centre-back and left-back respectively.

Barca can extend their lead at the top of the table back to eight points with a win this evening - at least until Real Madrid play local rivals Atletico later this evening. Getafe can up one place to 10th with a rare win in Catalonia, assuming Mallorca claim a win over Mallorca in the first of Saturday's matches, which is almost over.

BARCELONA: Valdes; Alves, Pique, Milito, Adriano; Mascherano, Xavi, Iniesta; Villa, Messi,Bojan /// GETAFE: Codina; Miguel Torres, Marcano, Kate, Victor Sanchez; Borja, Manu, Parejo, Casquero,; Albin, Arizmendi.