Lionel Messi pounces on two Manchester United mistakes to score twice as Barcelona breeze into the Champions League semi-finals
Barcelona's Argentinian forward Lionel Messi celebrates with Barcelona's Brazilian midfielder Philippe Coutinho after scoring during the UEFA Champions League quarter-final second leg football match between Barcelona and Manchester United at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona on April 16, 2019.
A dizzying opening spell, in which Marcus Rashford had hit the crossbar, was long-forgotten, even if it could offer Barca's next opponents some encouragement. Manchester United's Norwegian coach Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Barcelona's Spanish coach Ernesto Valverde gesture during the UEFA Champions League quarter-final second leg football match between Barcelona and Manchester United at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona on April 16, 2019.
Solskjaer had urged his strikers to be more lethal here but it felt ominous that even before kick-off, Rashford, Anthony Martial, Romelu Lukaku and Alexis Sanchez had hit 42 goals this season, while Messi on his own had 43. Barcelona's Argentinian forward Lionel Messi celebrates after scoring during the UEFA Champions League quarter-final second leg football match between Barcelona and Manchester United at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona on April 16, 2019. Barca were flustered, so much so the crowd even cheered with relief when Arthur Melo played his team's first convincing pass.
The second was simpler. Fred and Scott McTominay closed in on Coutinho and the ball spilled out to Messi, whose dribbling shot with his right foot should have drawn a routine save. Instead, De Gea let it squirm under his body for 2-0.
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