Lionel Messi ● Top 10 Magical & Legendary Performances in 2017 ► With Commentaries

Well, this is one of La Liga's glamour fixtures and one of its oldest Neymar for Messi first real involvement for Messi Mr. Messi Round one, round two, wonderful feet Just overcooked it It would have been another one for the scrapbook You look players in the eye and they'll say bring them on that's exactly the big Matches is only a matter of time before he wins the Ballon d'Or Messi looking for Neymar Now, referee has a good look at that And says Messi And that is a free kick I don't think there was any doubt about it He's in trouble Messi And now Luis Flores away from Nagle And how has he pulled? Referee says yes Penalty record An Argentine Up against a Brazilian Well he got it through And a space opening up for Messi Very defence Slides in Neymar Brilliant pass And a fine stop And any part of the body would do for Diego Alves He's right boot I think Bodies in the way, here's Mascherano Back with Messi Oh yes Well blink Take your eyes off him And hello you're in trouble Messi Beautiful way to pass It's Luis Flores position It's absolutely bonkers And they're now leading Flack stays down here Neymar finding Rakitic, he's had a push Messi Luis Flores Iniesta Rakitic kept ending up in a back four In the right back position Here's Messi Oh lovely vision to Pick out Rafinha Rafinha to Messi Messi Oh good save Force A Messi shot, Diego Alves into a desperate save here Iniesta Lovely dummy play To Montoya Messi And as he went on One of those amazing runs With games coming up Of a more difficult league Messi First Barcelona goal as well This is the Paris Saint-Germain team that started Tonight, no risks taken At all Here goes Messi looking for the hat-trick The hole of the second half with 10 men Valencia Also of course Stefan Jovatic On the bench tonight for the Andalusians We're seeing Leo Messi on the ball Just nine league goals this season Second highest scorer Leo Messi gets into the box Finds Suarez, Suarez to Messi What a tremendous effort From Leo Messi From Sergio Roberto helping out Leo Messi, Messi's got the chance to run at the box Leon, Suarez quick to Respond and Continue play, here's Messi Ibarra's 1.90m So he's quite a big lad It's Leo Messi who's Well won there by Rakitic Still Messi gets into the box He's being held back Very nearly found the man and it's In the back of the net, Luis Suarez What a finish, no wonder Luis Enrique is off his Bench and applauding Sheer determination from Leo Messi And Luis Suarez Demonstrating once again Still Neymar cutting it back Suarez will get there There's Messi, 2-0 Neymar found Suarez Suarez found Messi And Messi found the back of the net And it's Leo Messi on the ball Once more So does Rakitic, Pereja can't Get it away, Messi makes it 3-0, doesn't even think Twice and leathers it It was decisive, Messi Leo Messi has now scored 29 goals Against Sevilla 29 There's Iniesta for Barcelona Just seem to be Playing out the time The minutes until half time But they will hit you And Mercado comes back to the Argentine And Iniesta Such Playing almost from memory These players, Iniesta Lovely footwork, he finds Messi Still Messi Which is the last second On the Wednesday On the Saturday Brilliant work again from Messi Not even fouling him Messi, still Messi And trying to lob Sergio Rico Messi Here's Messi Intercepted there Neatly by Sergio Roberto Suarez He finds it from Messi, Messi's gonna shoot Lays it on for Iniesta Jorge Sampaoli this evening Meanwhile it's Leo Messi On the ball Turns Sums up the options, one of them Sergio Roberto I mean, just looks as if They want him to sign a new contract But maybe there'll be a few people thinking Well if Bauser is sacked by Argentina Maybe the best thing could be for Sampaoli To take a national team job Which I think he's probably best suited to Actually because he's so intense as a coach Leo Messi Doing brilliantly to hold on to the ball there And finally wins The referee's decision Good save from Rico, here's Messi Again an amazing footwork In Barcelona, we're gonna see if we can grab Words with a couple of the protagonists Wonderful And into Messi Drives into second Heading across Leaves Messi open on this near side Inuit trying to shut him down It's a chance for Messi From the spot Caresses it up and over Dimitrovic and the 6'4 keeper beaten Barcelona in front Wonderful transport Of the ball there from Denis Chance wide again For Dele But forced to by A bar, measured to pixel perfect Perfection, this is where it leads And it's Messi Driving forward, tries to split Remus Trying to shuffle it from one foot to the other As the clashing rocks come in on him Chance Top of the box, Messi left foot For the opening And it's Messi Sliding over Paolo Oliveira Messi, and again top of the box Messi, denied Dimitrovic Rebound Suarez Iniesta, Messi with the quick feet Musquets again to the front line Back for Messi Messi, Messi tucks and rolls At home He's went to this well a number of times With a red carpet slingshot Daisy could have taped a pass And this time He gets all of the angles down Messi at midfield Paulinho bursting along The Brazilian Back to Messi, magic into the box Messi, brilliant, through the leg And Messi the goal on the board Beautiful football from midfield to the other And Messi gets his hat trick In a field, but You gotta just get up on that highway And perform And In his coaching career against Barca At the Camp Nou And he'll fail, and now Messi Vidal Messi Weaves around Galvez Vidal, Messi Magic four Unstoppable Wonderful To the nth degree again Vidal, final seconds It's Messi, is there time For a fifth, Messi It's him again That the newspapers Will be printing about tomorrow So the scene set For the latest Catalan league derby Gets through to Messi Looking for Suarez Messi Oh, it's a far Cut out by David Lopez Here's Messi Unseen by Sanchez Slide through pass, Messi onside And Messi Opens the scoring Once he took that first touch Bought himself the space You just simply didn't doubt it Messi Suarez Rakitic, Messi Ivan Rakitic, great save Messi Lucky break here for Jordi Alvaro, and Messi's tucked in Number two Well, an element of real good fortune There for Barcelona, but you have to be there To score them Messi Lovely way to pass here for Suarez Be there, Pablo Piatti What about a lifeline just before halftime Cavancy For Suarez and finds him Oh Messi, the balance Took him away there from His marker, Rakitic Messi Sets up Suarez Messi Lovely pass, good for the angle Oh, clever Messi with a flick for Suarez, back with Messi And still Luis Suarez Cut back for Messi Hat-trick Dispatched Coolly by Lionel Messi His 38th Barcelona hat-trick Well, it's a Messi show, Kevin Must have acceleration for Messi He makes it happen, Kevin, he just goes past One, two, and he forces Him to foul him, that's the only way Quick fake, you can see Comes across and clips his heels With his 38th Barcelona hat-trick Take a seat Take a pew Get yourself ready for the Greatest game On the globe, half in the opening five minutes Of this game, first mention of Lionel Messi Been five times As a manager and lost all five Casemiro Here is Messi, starting From deep, on the offside Effectively a back pass, plays it to Messi Ball juggling from Lionel Messi Paulinho, Messi continues Casemiro has to be careful Messi Paulinho, great run from Paulinho Messi Gets the cross in Brave header Lionel Messi So close to him He's almost wearing his shirt Messi, he was caught in Foreflight by Marcelo Halftime whistle goes Nothing between These two teams Lionel Messi, Suarez alongside him Suarez Ooh Messi As he squirms away Sonne gets him with the other leg Venturously out of defence And continues the run Messi, picks out Suarez Suarez, chance to kill the game Navas again keeps it alive, danger hasn't gone away It's Lionel Messi, to Suarez Barcelona hit the post again Paulinho, it's circus football But the referee Is spoiling the fun Red card Carvajal Dismissed This is gonna significantly Change the plans of Zinedine Zidane Lionel Messi on the spot, the eyes of the world On Lionel Messi He doesn't fail, Messi Does it again The record scorer In all of the classicos Puts Barcelona some distance Ahead of the pack in La Liga Marcelo's caught in possession Messi Paulinho Who it actually stemmed from Here's Lionel Messi, Kovacic Half stops him, Messi is Roberto to Semedo Continues the run Semedo Moric Stolen by Messi Messi finding the freedom To Messi They're down Incredible close control To Messi We enter the additional 3 minutes Messi Gomez Lionel Messi on the score sheet once more Leading the attack Lionel Messi gets past Marcelo Messi plays it back Will he squeeze it Game 1 Set and match 3-0 Barcelona They are humiliating Real Madrid Lionel Messi on the floor Nice move by Lionel Messi They're moving Messi's speed The perfect waist break He left the perfect ball for Messi Neymar between the two There he goes The shot He's going to look for the play with Messi Messi gets it back What a shot And then attack Lionel Messi Looking for the pass Neymar Sergio Busquets Lionel Messi Another shot Lionel Messi There's the shot The only player who gets a back ball 20 meters out of the area And if you let him turn It's Messi He gets a position If you're not Messi Rafinha with Lionel Messi Rafinha had a shot There he goes Lionel Messi Messi's ball He gets it Rakitic Messi Neymar He gets the ball back Roberto Looking for the ball Gerard Piqué Oca in front of Radoya To send it to Lionel Messi Lionel Messi Rafinha Lionel Messi Rakitic Sergio Roberto Messi Lionel Messi Sergio Busquets Jordi Alba Lionel Messi Messi Lionel Messi He plays for Argentina Neymar Busquets Lionel Messi Messi Ocampo Lionel Messi Ocampo the wall, where there is no space, where there is no place or time to think, Barça dedicates itself, no doubt, it will feed the hopes of the fans of Coulé to think about the miracle. Messi, pass to third, Messi, Neymar, MESSI! What a goal, superb goal from Leo Messi, half an hour gone in the Copa del Rey final and Barcelona have never lost a final when this man has scored, absolute magician This is Messi, promising for Barcelona, it's Andre Gomes, and a tap-in for Neymar It would be with Barcelona with an overwhelming position, this is Messi trying to wriggle their way through, it's a brilliant pass, Alcazar! That's some run from Lionel Messi, what a run it was, he was prepared to run at defenders and take them on, that close control and the pass for Paco Alcazar, have a look at it again He looks like he's got nowhere to go, he's gone in tight, 1, 2, 3, he skips inside 4 players and then produces the pass just at the right time, and he's onside, definitely onside Well he's had a big say, Gerry, as we expected, Messi, skips away from Llorente an excellent cross, Alcazar! Once again, Messi too hot to handle Oh Kevin, his first touch and... Messi, so strong, such wonderful balance, and they put the gloss on it with a 4th, should do Messi, finding push, space here for Messi, Jordi Alba, tired out of his legs out there now Messi, scored the opening goal of this final, he also had a big part to play in the other 2 Which of them will be able to have the greater impact tonight, Messi famously has never scored past Buffon is this, his night Once again, wanting to be compact, making sure there's not too many gaps between the midfield and defence Punching challenge on Rakitic, referee has acknowledged it, nothing Taking up the role of, as Xavi used to play, he's going to be attacked, and once again we see him dropping deep here Messi is the only way that he can be stopped, he's so good on the ball, his change of pace Messi, pressure need for an away goal of course Messi, Betis, clean sheet in tact for this remodelled back line, and on Messi just a little bit of space Something from nothing, it's absolutely brilliant Exchanging a few thoughts on the way the first 45 minutes have gone Difficult for Messi in Betancourt, it's Messi again Fluency from the Juventus supporters there is from their Barcelona counterparts in that kind of position It's Messi, scores again Messi just looks incredible, and he just makes the most difficult things in football look easy Absolutely sublime, words to describe this player, one of the greatest we've ever seen 3-0 tonight, due in large effect of a wonderful performance from Lionel Messi And Messi, here in support again, and Messi's there Gentina are level, and who else but Lionel Messi Messi, Messi trying to go all the way on his own Oh Messi might be through again, it's Messi This is what the great great players do They choose their moment, and they deliver And Lionel Messi has turned this game around in the blink of an eye And Messi, oh Messi rolls it for Di Maria Gentina saving them The hero there if he was part of the team that took out Argentina Here's Messi, now Messi in space Messi to accelerate to look for the hat-trick He is unbelievable It's Argentina, hat-trick from the quite brilliant Lionel Messi And surely now, the best possible chance of going to Russia Here's Messi, when his country, when those magnificent fans needed him If Barcelona lose, they will be six points behind Madrid having played a game more But win, and they will go top on goal difference and have a better head-to-head compared to their great rivals You sense, therefore, that Madrid wouldn't be too disappointed with a point Here's Lionel Messi, his first touches on the ball Formation playing free at the back No room for experimentation tonight against Real Madrid Messi, oh gets past Casemiro He's going to have to watch his step tonight, Casemiro That's his job, to stop the flow in midfield Very early booking, that's dangerous That's one of the things he needs to improve on for me Messi, leading close to half Messi, leaves Modric and Casemiro in his way Messi going solo Messi, look at this Lionel Messi is down, that's not a sight you want to see for any footballer He's in trouble, he's got a whack in him To Messi, Casemiro Lionel Messi, Busquets, Rakitic Leaves it for Messi, Messi full steam ahead Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, Lionel Messi Cotton thrust, absolutely superb And the little man does what he does best Well, one for the history books as well because this is the goal that puts him ahead of everybody else One more now than the great Di Stefano Steals it off him, Messi, it's a slip from Ramos Well run back but it's only to Lionel Messi And Messi, not a brilliant ball Suarez, Messi, running for Rakitic to make the move But Rakitic doesn't have that turbo charge, Messi does And that's it again, he comes across, that's a foul He could easily have booked them for that Pique to Lionel Messi, oh slips past Ramos And Casemiro, Busquets, Messi Suarez makes an angle for him, into the stride of Suarez Well some players go into assault, you know that Cristiano This is just slacking a bit for me Rob, I don't know if he's run out of steam Gets around, Casemiro, Messi Lionel Messi, Rakitic Teases Real Madrid, tries to find the goal, Rakitic! Rock like figure for Barcelona Messi, it's one of those tackles where Ramos had committed himself to the ball Straight red, Ramos is off The referee didn't even consider that What was one last minute equalisers? Suarez to Messi It's three on two in their favour Messi Hit the jackpot, Gomez, Jordi Alba Lionel Messi! Lionel Messi does it again, he's superhuman Lionel Messi has just exploded La Liga into life Another chapter in the incredible story of this little man Oh my goodness, you cannot write the script for this Rob This is unbelievable stuff Look at the faces of Real Madrid fans and Real Madrid players, unbelievable It's blown the league wide open His 500th goal for Barcelona is possibly the most significant one How much is that shirt worth? He's got to get booked, but he don't care Book me, jail me, handcuff me, he doesn't care what they do to him tonight Extract his teeth, he has scored the goal And he is the best He's the best there is, he's the best there ever has been Possibly the best there ever will be That's those Real Madrid defenders that were left in his trail there He has taken Barcelona level with Real Madrid at the top of the table In an instant of magic The slightest of gaps, the biggest of goals from Lionel Messi 500 up for him