Barcelona’s class was clear as Messi hit a hat-trick, Neymar scored a free kick to go along with his four assists and Andres Iniesta also struck before Luis Suarez notched a double.
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Lionel Messi scored his sixth Champions League hat-trick as rampant Barcelona inflicted on Celtic their heaviest ever European defeat.
Amid suggestions Celtic disappointed, Luis Enrique felt regardless of which team the Blaugrana faced the winning margin would have been a big one.
If they can maintain this goal-scoring form, Barcelona are going to be a team to beat in the Champions League. “Of course it’s never nice professionally”.
And Rodgers says that his players shouldn’t let it get them down given Barcelona’s tendency to thump teams over the years.
“But you can’t be too downhearted”.
Celtic, who are now atop the Scottish Premiership table with 12 points from four games, will next play Inverness CT on Sunday. If you get the penalty and get to 1-1 you can make the crowd a bit nervous after their weekend loss. The keeper then made up for his error by saving the French striker’s spot kick and Messi made the save doubly important two minutes later when he took advantage of another pass from Neymar to stab the ball home from close range to make the score 2-0. The attacking trident has since scored 253 goals and assisted another 120 in between them throughout their last two full seasons together, the BBC reported.
He said: “The players couldn’t have come to a more hard place after playing such an intense game at the weekend”.
“Ospina was very good and he will have shown tonight for those who doubted him that he is a good goalkeeper”, said the Frenchman.
“To have hardly any preparation time to come and play against the world’s best at keeping the ball and tiring you out, and beating you up with the football at times, it was a tough ask for them and that last 15-20 minutes did feel long”.
“The speed of the pitch is fantastic, the ball moves like it is on an ice-rink, it goes so fast – and they go as fast as that”, he said. They are very special players.
“We didn’t make any mistakes throughout the game, apart from one little one in the first half, where we conceded a penalty”.
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FW Luis Suarez, 7 – For a while it looked like a night where the Uruguayan played in the shadows of his strike partners.
