Barcelona Put an Absolute Whoopin' on Roma Today
By Rob Perez
Fresh off a 4-0 annihilation of La Liga rival Real Madrid this weekend in their most recent segment of ‘El Clasico’, FC Barcelona continued to show off its immortality by taking AS Roma to the woodshed this afternoon at Camp Nou — defeating the Italian club by a score of 6-1 during their UEFA Champions League match up.
At this point, we’ve all seen highlights of Lionel Messi’s wizardry … but, this campaign: Barce somehow, someway … continues to amaze.
This was one of Messi’s two goals during the fixture today, and what’s not shown in the GIF is that it was the end result of a dazzling TWENTY-SEVEN consecutive pass sequence by Barce:
Good God Almighty, man…
This was Messi’s first game back (in the starting lineup) since injuring his knee, too…
…not bad. As for the other Barce superstar striker, you ask? He looked OK:
Here are the must-see full highlights of the demolition:
Barcelona leads Group E by a ridiculous 8 points with one fixture remaining.