Well if you could pick any player in the world currently playing to be the first to kick 5 goals in a Champions League final, Lionel Messi is where you'd start (unless Real Madrid were playing some Ukranian team who lost all their players from the previous season to bankruptcy, then Cristiano Ronaldo wouldn't surprise.(No disrespect to the Ukraine, just the first European country I thought of without a team that immediately springs to mind). Is he the best ever? I'll leave that debate to another time but let's not forget how amazing Diego, Pele and Cryuff were.
Here are the 5 goals:
Goal 1 (25min)
Exquisite pass from Xavi, with control from Messi enough to lob it over the shoulder of the keeper on a 45 degree angle to the goal to the opposite corner of the net,
Goal 2 (42m)
Recieves the ball from Iniesta, runs into the box, dances around 3 defenders and curls a left boot his into the bottom left-hand corner
Goal 3 (49m)
Another lob! From another long pass from Fabregas this time, catching the ball on the volley and chipping it over the keeper again.
Goal 4 (58m)
Goalkeeper leno stopped a shot on the right post only to the deflect to Messi who was running in who easily closed the gap between a laying on the ground Leno.
Goal 5 (84m)
Gathered ball just outside penalty area and shoots from outside left boot to the left side once again, a sublime and trademark finish.
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