Even Messi Fans Have Not Seen This

Oh, slip. Rob Mantle leaving a one-to-one situation. Well, good shot. Yes, he was facing the mist. How old were you, do you think, when you realized that you were going to be really good? To be honest, I never realized it. I never really thought that I was going to be really good or not. I just wanted to make my dream come true. Yeah, but in Argentina you must have realized that you were better than the other kids. Yeah, but... Well, yes, my family and my friends would tell me. But I wasn't playing football then just to be the best. I just wanted to have fun. Well, speaking of that young man, 18-year-old, much been said about him. They say that he's an exceptional talent. He looks to have a little bit of everything. And let's not forget when we look at this, he's only 18, so far from the finished product. He's a little older than that baby, I can tell you. He's still a boy. But he's growing very quickly, isn't he? At the top level of Spanish football. He's just turned 18. He was small when he turned up four or five years ago. They had to give him a lot of supplements to get him to grow a little bit. But he's so excited. He's got a great left foot. There doesn't appear to be any further changes in personnel. But here's a great run from Messi. Can he go all the way? It's brilliant. Oh! It deserved a goal. It illuminated the Camp Nou. And it needed a desperate clearance to keep the 18-year-old on the score sheet. Wonderful. Typical, forceful run from Lionel Messi. Look at that change of pace from Messi. This kid's brilliant. He really is. He starts dropping the defenders. He's so quick and nimble and fleet of foot. Look at the balance. Here's Lionel Messi. These two defenders, absolutely amazing. There's no stopping him. When he's in this kind of mood. He can't lord it. He's run out of superlatives for Lionel Messi. Week in, week out. I absolutely adore watching Lionel Messi play. I love watching Barcelona play. Unfortunately for Nacho, I think he might be on one or two of those reruns. Messi, in his own time. Taking on all comers again. Once he runs at the defences, there's no stopping him. And it's just that he seems to finish every opportunity. There we see him evading Nacho. No other thought. He's going to run right at the defence now. Takes it up to Rosario. Sends him one way. Loses him completely. It's the quick feet. It's the balance. It's the strength. The power he has to hold people off the ball. They cannot defend him. They don't know what he's going to do. Messi. What do I do? Messi doesn't know. So how the hell do the defenders? You need a net to cover him. A little tip of the shoulder takes him past Chica. The maestro has done it. It has been the Lionel Messi show once again. But the thing is he does it so quick that you don't have time to react. You're a defender. You see Messi coming. You think ten things at the same time. And obviously he's going to go and pass you. What this guy does is something that I don't think we're going to see something like that for a long time. So we're going to enjoy it. Here's Messi. Acceleration at the tip of the shoulder. Lionel Messi. Nacho takes one-two through the legs of the defender. Messi. He's the defender for dead. Christian, not clear. And Messi makes it 2-0 to Football Club Barcelona. He went for the wonder goal. Oh, that's a magician. Messi threads the ball through. Asking a lot here of Iniesta. I think he's just 23 years of age. Alberto with a good ball for Messi. And he gets there. Messi. Sublime. Beautifully around Alvaro. Sometimes it's just God given though. He woke up and saw the ball was just at the bottom of his bed when he woke up. In the cot. It was just there. He knew. Rio just said actually, imagine being Messi. Imagine having that. What a footballer. I'm standing still for him. He's not on the same wavelength as everybody else. Even us watching him. He is remarkable. Just his face touches. His movements. How clever the space he finds. In the little small clever pockets. He's a one-off for me. He seems to be breaking records almost on a weekly basis. The last couple of months. He does things in that final third. That gets you off the edge of your seat and on your feet. It's immaculate touch. He actually puts negative spin on it. Wonderful control on the run. He's got a nanosecond to fade the target. And he does it with ten telemates. An absolute brilliant skill. Messi on the turn. Looking for the room. Finds the room. And finds the corner. Well did you begin to doubt him when he got into that position? Messi now is trying to do something for Barcelona. Here he goes. He's getting three. Just runs at defenders. All fights are such. And there's two or three attempts to bring it down. This boy's a gem. He is something special, isn't he? He's got 15. Messi looks like he's in the mood. Messi is just brilliantly around love. He pickens. He does it against way. Messi. Twisting. Turning. Like an alligator with a twitch. He takes a million pictures. In that crystal ball that's inside of his head. For this golden footballer. The most wonderful, stupendously magnificent player in the history of the game. Is Messi a human being? The Leverkusen coach Robin Dutt said Barcelona, without Messi, are the best team in the world. With him, they are simply in another galaxy. Messi has won. Messi! Magical! He never disappoints. And the fans bowing down to him.