Barca 3 Bayern 0: Three things we learned

1. Messi was somehow capable of getting even better

He took all tension out of this tie and, by this point, he’s taking away on debate. The argument over whether he is the best in the world is long redundant. We should be talking about the best of all time.

It wasn’t just that he decided yet another huge game, consigning Pep Guardiola’s Bayern Munich to a long list that includes everyone from Alex Ferguson’s Manchester United to Jose Mourinho’s Real Madrid. It was how he did — the cleanness.