Messi makes the Difference for Barcelona

Man of the moment Messi was at it again as Barcelona advance to the quater finals of the Copa del Rey after beating Basque side 4-3 on aggregate. Goals from Messi,  Neymar and Suarez (MSN) was enough to get the Catalan through to next round of the cup.


The Blaugrana started the game on a bright note this time around by dominating possession and gave no breathing space to Valverde's men the quality of officiating was again in question when Suarez 27th minute goal was wrongly ruled as offside.
However the moment of breakthrough came, with 10 minute remaining in the first half, as Suarez scored a spectacular volley to put Barça up front, it was the Uruguayan 100th goal in 120 appearance for Barcelona.

Neymar finally ended  his drought of 1,036 minutes without a goal by scoring from the penalty spot after a clumsy tackle from Boveda but that wasn't enough to seal the game as the visitors responded with a shock goal from Saborit Teixidor header to precariously throw the game wide open and Enrique side were made to work hard in search of a winner and Messi was to the rescue as he curled in an amazing free-kick to make 3-1 to seal the game.

STATS ATTACK

Luis Suarez has now scored 100 goals, assisted 60 in 120 games for Barcelona.

Lionel Messi has scored three goals in 2017, all three from direct free-kicks Impressive!

Drought is over Neymar has scored his first Barcelona goal since 19
October 2016, ending his goal drought after 1,034 minutes of action.

The free-kick was Messi's 26th free kick goal for Barcelona, meaning he has equals the all time Barcelona record, held by Ronald Koeman.

MSN has now scored a combined of 300 GOALS  since Suarez joined to
Barcelona (Messi 124 Suarez 100 Neymar 76) deadly !