Barcelona were able to defeat Sevilla 4-2 at the Estadio Sanchez Pizjuan thanks to Lionel Messi's hat-trick.
The Argentine helped to paper over the cracks in Ernesto Valverde's plan for the LaLiga Santander match.
The coach decided to start an unfocused Arturo Vidal, to reintroduce Samuel Umtiti and to bench Ousmane Dembele for Philippe Coutinho, three decisions that almost hurt the Blaugrana, only for Messi's genius to solve all of the team's problems.
While Valverde reacted at half time and made important adjustments, the initial plan wasn't the best.
There are two very difficult matches coming up at the Estadio Santiago Bernabeu and there was some logic in making a few rotations, but it's thanks to Messi that this trip to Andalusia didn't result in any dropped points in the league.
janabarca
108
Vidal and rakitic starting means trouble after dembele came up we played more fluently Vidal have bad positioning lead to second goal no one were there in place of semedo valverde want to put 3 defensive minded mid to stop scoring but it backfired hope he learns and well done barca dembele ,messi,coutinho
kingway13
93
modric wondering how Messi wasn't named best play maker
Chelasani
84
barca should thank god for sending messi to them. what a fantastic performance from him. and to point out that the whole team playing sh*t. messi's brilliance is over shadowing the horrible performance of the team. how on earth is Suarez doing in the whole game. I think he should be benched from sometime. no one on the pitch is good in recent days. I don't know how the coach is preparing for a game....! no game plan, messi and 10 players that's it... no planning at all. I wonder how can the team survive without messi
Shahriar
79
that's Messi 👑
fredostar
67
OFFICIAL: FC Barcelona has officially confirmed that the club's name "FC BARCELONA" will be changed to "FC MESSILONA"
rubabcmuz
55
it's simple. Alena is better than Vidal. he is good on and off the ball. probably Vidal is good off the ball but poor on the ball. he should start ahead of vidal
VishVishwas
48
They say that Messi finds Barca as a comfort zone. The fact is that, Barca uses Messi as a comfort zone. 💯 Think twice. Leo Messi the name..Saving Barca since the day wearing bluagrana ❣️ Thank God Leo Messi exist 🙌 The real asset of Barca 💯 This Goddamn GOAT never gives up 50 hattricks nd counting 🔥
allfootballuser
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searching real madrid fans after messi hatrick