Barcelona's Swedish supersub Zlatan Ibrahimovic stole the limelight against Real Madrid to move his team to the top of the La Liga table by two points after a 1-0 victory.

In the 56th minute, Dani Alves curled a delightful pass across the face of the goal to substitute Ibrahimovic, who wasted no time to volley a superb left-footed winner past Real Madrid goalie Iker Casillas.

Shortly afterwards, Barca midfielder Sergio Busquets foolishly picked up his second yellow card to leave the home side a man short for almost 30 minutes.

However, Real could not take advantage, handing over FC Barcelona the needed three points in the enthralling 'El Clasico' at Camp Nou stadium on Sunday.

Barca now have 30 points from 12 games, two ahead of Real, who slipped back to second place.

Earlier, former Real Madrid striker Roberto Soldado got his second hat trick of the season as Getafe heaped more misery on bottom side Xerez with a 5-1 thrashing at the Coliseum.

It was a second treble for the striker following his hat trick in a 4-1 win over Racing Santander.

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