BARCELONA (AFP) - Lionel Messi pounced on two Manchester united mistakes to score twice and stop their hopes of complementary Camp Nou comeback as Barcelona breezed into the Champions League semi-finals on Tuesday (April 16).After an excellent start, united were undone twice in four minutes by Messi, who first nicked the ball off the careless Ashley youngster and subsequently watched as a feeble shot from keep apart from squirmed underneath David de Gea.Philippe Coutinho, in perhaps his best feint of the season, extra a third behind a curling effort into the top corner and by the end, an outclassed united might have been relieved the score was not more traumatic than 3-0, 4-0 on aggregate. A dizzying inauguration spell, in which Marcus Rashford had hit the crossbar, was long-forgotten, even if it could have the funds for Barcelona's next opponents some encouragement.Liverpool, who understand a 2-0 guide to Porto on Wednesday, are the most likely obstacle in the company of Barca and their first Champions League unmodified in the past they last won this tournament in 2015. Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane might feel encouraged.Instead, United's pair of to the front errors made this complementary night just about Messi and ensured any faint hopes of repeating the comeback adjacent to Paris Saint-Germain, or even the well-known 1999 rescue suit adjacent to Bayern Munich, on this same pitch, were dashed. Messi now has his 109th and 110th Champions League goals and, potentially, three other matches to reduce the gap on Cristiano Ronaldo's 126, after Juventus were dumped out by Ajax. Barcelona's fans applauded that too.United's coach Ole Gunnar Solskjaer had urged his strikers to be more lethal here but it felt ominous that even in the past kick-off, Rashford, Anthony Martial, Romelu Lukaku and Alexis Sanchez had hit 42 goals this season, even though Messi on his own had 43.Around an hour in the past kick-off, Alex Ferguson was on the side of the pitch, shaking hands behind Ryan Giggs and sharing words behind Solskjaer, the scorer of that direct adjacent to Munich here 20 years ago.They could have hardly have asked for a bigger start. united were sharp for eight minutes and could have been ahead within 30 seconds as Rashford raced onto a curving Paul Pogba pass and toed away a shot, which Marc-Andre ter Stegen boldly left to scrape his own crossbar.Magic Messi
Barca were flustered, as a result much as a result the crowd even cheered behind minister to behind Arthur Melo played his team's first convincing pass.Then, Barcelona had their own eight-minute flurry as united nearly conceded a penalty, ruled out after Fred took the ball in the past bringing alongside Ivan Rakitic, and subsequently did concede, twice, to Messi.Both could have been avoided, even if Young's approach on the edge of his own box was punished in devastating fashion. youngster lunged in to atone for his mistake but Messi skipped away from him, poked it through Fred's legs and subsequently whipped the ball behind into the corner.The second was simpler. Fred and Scott McTominay closed in on Coutinho and the ball spilled out to Messi, whose dribbling shot behind his right foot should have drawn a routine save. Instead, De Gea allow is squirm under his body for 2-0.Pogba lashed out at the increasingly influential Arthur and Barca could have had a third in the past half-time, De Gea scrambling across to save on the descent behind Sergi Roberto should have finished.Messi could have had his hat-trick too after Luis Suarez found him behind a superb cutback and there was an nearly comical sequence in the second half behind the Argentinian played behind his united chasers in the past finally creature bundled on top of by McTominay.Rashford might have made it engaging if he had controlled Pogba's ball on top of the top but Barcelona were in exhibition mode, helped by a vintage Coutinho curler after he had clip inside from the left.Messi even attempted a bicycle kick and there were celebrations from the house fans behind news went circular that Ajax had taken the guide in Turin. They understand this is their year.
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"Messi is a one-club man," Bartomeu added. "It's more than what he does on the pitch, his relationship with Barca will last forever. "I use the example of Pele, who was always at Santos. We want Messi to always be at Barca, whether that's playing on the pitch or being linked to the club (after he retires)."
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