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Twitter reacts to Messi breaking Chelsea goal drought: Congrats, Ronaldo is better

  /  autty

Lionel Messi scored a 75th-minute equaliser to dash Chelsea's hopes of a famous victory over Barcelona in Tuesday night's Champions League last-16 first leg tie.

The Argentine put his side in the driver's seat heading into the second leg at the Nou Camp but also broke a personal goal-drought against the Blues in the process.

Messi, who has netted 535 career goals, had never scored in eight previous meetings against  Chelsea but ended that run by tucking home from Andres Iniesta's cut-back to hand his side the share of the spoils..

And, as ever, social media was quick to react to the little magician bagging his first goal against the west Londoners.

Barcelona's official Twitter account commemorated the moment with an animation of Messi winking beneath the caption: 'Leo Messi n̶e̶v̶e̶r̶ scored against Chelsea.'

The Catalan side followed it up with an image of Messi celebrating with Iniesta with two goat emojis symbolising the 'greatest of all time'.

Blues Talk took a significantly dimmer view of Messi's strike, blaming Chelsea for gifting him the goal with a misplaced pass from Andreas Christensen and Cesc Fabregas' failure to control the ball leading to the equaliser.

The account tweeted: 'Well that was a f****** stupid way of giving Messi his first goal against Chelsea' while Rana was in no doubt where the blame lay: 'Fabregas gives Messi his first goal against Chelsea'.

The Barcelona superstar's rivalry with Cristiano Ronaldo was also a topic of discussion and NFL star JJ Watt's fairly innocuous tweet of: 'Lionel Messi is very good' was met with an scathing response from Stroby.

'Stop. Ronaldo is the best player,' Stroby said. 'And as far as Messi is concerned tonight's game. Messi got lucky. First goal against Chelsea in eight meetings'.

While Messi's equaliser ended his goal drought against the Blues, it's worth remembering Barcelona play in La Liga and Chelsea in the Premier League.

Mikey Wilson tweeted: '"First goal Messi has scored against Chelsea" Forgot he plays against theme every season home and away'.