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Author of a goal and a curious offering, the Argentine admitted that his pass for Gerard Piqué had not been worked upstream.
If Barça did not make the most successful match of its history against PSV Eindhoven Wednesday night (2-1 victory), the Catalan club has been able to give himself enough margin in this match to face a last quarter of more difficult time.
As often, Lionel Messi has obviously been in all good moves. Scorer on the opener, the Argentinian was decisive on the second goal by distilling a small ball in the area to Gerard Piqué, who took over victoriously in first intention, on a free-kick.
An offering that Messi had obviously not planned, as he met. "Gerard was in the area and he saw it, luckily it ended up at the bottom, but it was not planned"said Messi in comments relayed by the club's website.
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Luuk de Jong scored a goal late in the game for PSV, who made 23 shots and hit the amounts on several occasions, but Barça kept this precious success all the way to the top of group B The goal of Messi allowed him to break a new record. The Argentinian surpasses Cristiano Ronaldo and becomes the most prolific scorer of the Champions League for a single club with this 106th achievement for Barcelona.
"I'm delighted, I just discovered it, I'm happy for this new statistic, we've reached our goal of finishing in front of a difficult group, we are really happy, the group has been tight and the journeys are difficult", he concluded.
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