Football: Messi hits 600-goal mark as Barcelona beat Liverpool 3-0 in the first leg of their Champions League semifinal
Barcelona's Lionel Messi celebrates after scoring his side's third goal during the Champions League semifinal, first leg, soccer match between FC Barcelona and Liverpool at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, Spain.
Messi then quashed the comeback effort when he doubled the lead from a rebound with 15 minutes left and followed that up by making it 600 career goals for Barcelona by curling in a perfectly struck free kick in the 82nd. Liverpool is trying to reach consecutive Champions League finals after losing last season 3-1 to Real Madrid.
Shortly after stewards quickly caught and removed a spectator who had run onto the pitch, Liverpool lost midfielder Naby Keita to an apparent upper leg injury. Jordan Henderson replaced him in the 24th.Arturo Vidal played the ball across the pitch to Philippe Coutinho, who knocked an innocent-looking pass back to Alba. But the next touch from Alba was a perfectly weighted long pass that was reminiscent of the best assists of former Barcelona great Xavi Hernandez.
Liverpool came out of the halftime break pressing for the equaliser and succeeded in the rarest of football feats: taking the ball away from Barcelona.
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