“Obviously there’s a massive moment in the first half”. Four minutes into the second half, Neymar scored a wonderful free kick.
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The risky Brazilian looked up and clipped an inch-perfect ball to the onrushing Iniesta on the edge of the box, who rifled a devastating volley into the top corner without breaking stride. “I didn’t think about it – it is luck that I hit it perfectly”.
The emphatic victory saw Barca surpass their biggest win in the Champions League to date, a 7-1 defeat of Bayer Leverkusen in 2012, Sport24 reported.
Celtic coach Brendan Rodgers was also in awe of Messi and the other parts of the ruthless “MSN” attacking trident of Messi, Suarez and Neymar.
Messi’s the best player in the world, at whatever position he plays. “That’s total football. We wouldn’t be very smart to put limits on him. For me, he’s the best player of all time”. “Not just because of his numbers, but for his vision of the game”.
“We had an opportunity to move forward after that loss and we were able to do it”, said Andres Iniesta, who came in as a substitute and scored for Barcelona on Tuesday. The team did a lot of good things. he continued. Whenever you lose as a professional it is tough to take but [my] players have been brilliant.
The Uruguayan and Messi started Saturday’s shock 2-1 defeat by Alaves in the Spanish Primera Liga on the bench, while Neymar missed the start of the season owing to his participation in the Olympics, where he fired Brazil to a first gold medal in football. We are not playing for ourselves, nobody is looking for personal glory.
Iniesta’s strike to add a fourth was arguably the pick of the bunch as he showed remarkable technique and timing to meet a Neymar cross on the volley and arrow a drive beyond the shell-shocked Dorus de Vries from 18 yards.
“Manchester City will come at us too”. Celtic then had a great chance to level the game, after they were given a penalty. The ball moves as if it is on an ice rink and they move as fast as that, they are high-level, top players with big belief and that is why they are what they are.
Celtic striker Moussa Dembele, who had scored a hat-trick in the 5-1 win over Rangers at the weekend, had a penalty saved by Marc-Andre ter Stegen when the home side led by only one goal.
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Thomas Mueller drilled home the second on the stroke of half-time off David Alaba’s low cross from the left.
