Thursday, March 8, 2012

Barca destroyed Leverkusen, Messi with 5 goals

The last holder of the Champions League trophy humiliated the German Bayer Leverkusen, earning a victory of 7-1 at Camp Nou. Lionel Messi scored five goals for his team at the second match of the 1/8 finals and his teammate Christian Tello added another two. Karim Bellarabi scored one for the Germans in the last minute of the match. Barca won their first match with 3-1.
In the 11th minute Messi received a good pass and fired a shot from a small angle, but Bernd Leno saved. Messi again gained the ball and passed to Pedro, but his shot was blocked.
In the 24th minute Pique made an attempt to score after Xavi sent the ball into Leverkusen's box. His header was saved by the keeper, however.
The goal show started in the 25th minute. Xavi showed his extraordinary ability and passed the ball to Messi, who sent the ball into the net, beating Leno. That was his goal number 50 in his matches in Europe with Barcelona.
In the 31st minute Messi advanced to the Germans' goal, but his shot was blocked by the defenders in the very last moment. Two minutes later Simon Rolfes from Bayer tried a shot, but unsuccessfully. That was the only possibility for Bayer in the first half.
In the 42nd minute Messi scored another one. He humiliated the defense of Leverkusen and eliminated the keeper with a precise shot. Two minutes later there was another possibility for PepTeam, but Leno stopped Fabregas and then Pedro was unable to score.
In the 50th minute Messi added spectacular goal after an assist from Fabregas. The Argentinian was left alone by Bayer's defenders and had no problem firing the ball into the net.
IN the 54th minute Eren Derdiyok from Leverkusen attempted to score, but his shot was just a few centimeters away from the goal. In the subsequent attack Barca sent the ball into the net once again. Tello, who had come as a substittution just a few minutes before that, fired the ball into the empty goal froma few meters.
A couple of minutes later Messi scored his 4th goal. Bayer's defenders and Leno made a stupid mistake and allowed him to steal the ball and send it into the net.
In the 62th minute Tello received the ball from Alves and with a powerful shot with his right foot beated the keeper, who was unable to stop the ball from crossing the goal line.
Five minutes before the end of the match Lionel Messi punished for the last time Bayer Leverkusen. With a shot from about 20 meters he added a 5th goal,
IN the last minute Bayer managed to return 1 goal, but the humiliation for the players and the club remained.

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