Sentence examples for messi from inspiring English sources

This time it was Suárez bursting through a knot of static Bayern defenders after a sublime pass from Messi.

Subs: Koke, Raúl García and Turan (Atlético), Bale, Alonso, Benzema and Ramos (Real Madrid), Iniesta and Messi (Barcelona), Rico, Gurpegui, Laporte, Aduriz (Athletic Bilbao), Trashorras and Larrivey (Rayo Vallecano), Navas (Levante), Bacca (Sevilla), Bruno, Gio and Musacchio (Villarreal), Vela (Real Sociedad).

Messi got three on Sunday and Neymar got one as well, taking his season total to 17, but the best of them was a brilliant overhead kick from Luis Suárez.

Deny them space, hope the front three end up congested in the centre and pray that Messi (or indeed Neymar or Suárez) don't do anything brilliant.

"Messi is an alien that dedicates himself to playing with humans," the Juve captain said.

Could Ronaldo overtake Messi but miss out to one of the German World Cup winners?

Ronaldo's three goals took his tally for the season to 42, keeping him ahead of Barcelona's Lionel Messi, who could manage only two in the Catalans' 8-0 win at Córdoba, and putting him two behind Ronaldo on 40 league goals for the season.

On the eve of the final match of the season, Barcelona proudly announced that Leo Messi had signed a new deal at the Camp Nou.

"Leonard Messii, he says, "is the good boy that every father would love to have" while the "other one" … He pauses then lurches up to perform a military march but he looks more like some robotic dinosaur whose batteries are dying, which when you think about it … "Ronaldo is like a commander," he says.

The World Cup was great; we've living in the gilded age of Lionel Messi v Cristiano Ronaldo and the top flight in England hasn't been this competitive "since it were possible for Nottingham Forest to win the league".

Alves had stopped Leo Messi, Diego Costa and Fredi Kanouté before; now he had stopped Cristiano Ronaldo … twice.