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Luis Enrique: "Marvellous" Pedro deserves more minutes

Luis Enrique admits that out-of-favour Barcelona forward Pedro, a scorer in the victory over Real Sociedad, deserves more game time than he has given him this season.

Barcelona coach Luis Enrique admitted that he has under-played reported Premier League target Pedro after his dazzling cameo in Saturday's 2-0 win over Real Sociedad.

The 27-year-old came off the bench to seal the Catalans' win with a "tremendous" overhead kick in the closing minutes at the Camp Nou.

Pedro is arguably the primary victim of the 112-goal trident of Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and Neymar- who opened the scoring - having started just 13 Liga games all season.

Consequently, speculation is rife that Chelsea and Arsenal will lodge £24m bids for him in the summer, and Enrique has acknowledged that he owes the Spaniard more minutes.

"About Pedro I can only say marvellous things. He is a top-class player. He's playing less than he deserves this year," he told reporters.

"He always delivers, he's a complete professional and a guarantee, a pleasure to have here. His goal was tremendous, the action of a player on a different level."

Pedro's contract at Barcelona expires in 2016.

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Neymar of FC Barcelona celebrates after scoring the opening goal during the La Liga match between FC Barcelona and Real Sociedad de Futbol at Camp Nou on May 9, 2015
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