Incomparable Messi reminds Salah who is master of left-footed arts | Barney Ronay

The Liverpool forward played well but Barcelona’s magician wrote his name all over another Champions League semi-final

There was a moment at the end of this game – like so many other Lionel Messi moments – that you felt like pulling out of the air, taking home and keeping on a constant loop in the front of your brain. Like all the best Messi bits it was a moment of jaw-dropping skill. It was also very funny.

In the last seconds of stoppage time, with Barcelona already 3-0 up, Ousmane Dembélé led a breakaway from a Liverpool corner. Inside him Messi chugged forward, legs pounding the grass, battery draining, not so much eating up the ground as grimly chugging it down.

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from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2Wk6H1Y

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