Wednesday 22 January 2014

Messi help Tello hat-trick as Barcelona 4-1 Levante

In the match Barcelona vs. Levante, Barcelona was 0-1 in the first half, then in the second half, Barcelona broken up and finally 4-1 Levante. It's Messi's 400th game and he set up fours goals and gave Tello hat trick.

Denied by the hosts in the first half, Messi withdrew into midfield to turn playmaker and place four precise passes behind the defence that led to an own goal in the 53rd minute and Tello's treble in the 60th, 81st and 86th.

Levante had held Barcelona to a 1-1 draw at Ciutat de Valencia Stadium just four days earlier in the Spanish league, and it was on course toward a similar feat after Nabil El Zhar netted in the 31st.

However, Messi again showed that he is much more than Barcelona's all-time scorer with 331 goals since his debut in 2004 by exploiting Tello's speed down the left flank with well-timed assists.

"Our first half worried me, but we have players that don't need 45 minutes to turn the match around," Barcelona coach Gerardo Martino said. "[Messi] can change this and any other game. He can undo any type of defence. The tiredness of our rivals played its part and the spaces opened up as they wore down. Leo took great advantage of them."

Messi's master class play gave me more confident of Argentina's world cup battle. Even Spain and Germany, Brazil are the hottest team to win the World Cup. I still wait to see Messi's play in the World Cup and can't wait to see how far can Argentina go.

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