Messi shows no mercy to Blues

Chelsea produced the kind of attacking performance in Europe that Manchester United fans were screaming for 24 hours earlier, but found centurion Lionel Messi was still too good for them, as they lost 3-0 in the Nou Camp in what was the harshest of Champions League lessons.

The result makes it seem as though Antonio Conte’s men, who had drawn the first leg 1-1, limped out of Europe in the same way that United had done against Sevilla; but in fact they played some wonderful football and created numerous chances against a below-par Barca, but failed to convert them.

The lesson was delivered instead by Messi, who scored twice from only two chances to take his tally in the Champions League to 100 and his tally for this season alone to 34.