Lionel Messi’s 600th goal carried Barcelona closer to his eighth league title with the club. As the ball hit the net the Camp Nou chanted his name. It was early still and there would be nervous moments to overcome, Atlético Madrid refusing to relinquish their challenge without a fight, but he had done it again, as they thought he might.
At the end, there was a huge roar here: another big night had the No 10’s signature scrawled across it. “If Messi had been wearing an Atlético shirt, we would have won,” Diego Simeone, the Atlético manager, said. His opposite number, Ernesto Valverde, said: “There’s no one like him in the world. I don’t know what would have happened [if he’d been on the other team] nor do I want to imagine it.”
The title might be heading elsewhere for a start. A single goal was enough but what a goal it was. The clock showed 26 minutes and the ball was 25 yards from goal, just left of centre as Jan Oblak, the Atlético goalkeeper, looked at it. The problem was that it was one thing seeing it, another stopping it.
Source : theguardian
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