Celtic’s players will be having nightmares about Lionel Messi following their thumping 7-0 defeat to Barcelona in the Champions League on Tuesday night.
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After Edinson Cavani gave Paris St Germain the early lead, it was left to Arsenal’s Chilean hero to save their blushes.
Argentine Messi scored his sixth Champions League hat-trick in the drubbing of the Scottish champions, the Uruguayan Suarez scored a brace and Brazil’s Neymar scored from a free-kick and set up four other goals.
Five-time champion Barcelona extended its winning streak at home in European competition to 12 straight matches.
Visiting Arsenal stole a 1-1 draw at Paris Saint-Germain who wasted a host of chances in a game both sides ended with 10 men.
“Messi’s the best in the world in every position”, Enrique said in his post-game news conference. If you get the penalty and get to 1-1, you can make the crowd a bit nervous after their weekend loss.
Lionel Messi, Luis Suárez, Andrés Iniesta and Neymar all scored against Celtic in Group C, with Marc-André ter Stegen’s penalty save putting the seal on Barcelona’s record 7-0 victory.
“For me, he’s the best player of all time, both for the number of goals he scores and for his footballing vision”.
“There can be no embarrassment because they do that to much better teams than ourselves”, he said, per BBC Sport.
Celtic won a penalty against the run of play when Dembele was brought down by Marc-Andre ter Stegen, but the striker then had his effort saved by the Barcelona goalkeeper. “We have had a brilliant start to the season and this won’t hamper us in any way, you will always take the positives from it”.
“I think in the first half we had a critical moment in the game”.
“There’s a lot to take from the game for the players in terms of technique, in terms of simplicity and quality and lots of things to learn for them from the game”.
He said: “It doesn’t matter if we were playing Barcelona or Berwick Rangers, there’s professional pride and no professional likes to lose like that even though you are playing against a team of world-class players”. Moussa was happy to accept the responsibility and the keeper read it and made a good save and that probably needed to go our way.
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Suarez had been fairly quiet to that point, but quickly got in on the act himself, duly helped by Neymar, whose fourth assist of the game meant it became 6-0. “It is very early for us working together”.
