Messi received a nasty, teeth-loosening elbow on the first half of el clásico at Real Madrid. He had to change the jersey because it was bloody, and came on holding a gauze in his mouth. Several minutes later, this happened:
Messi breaks through Real’s defense for the 1-1 (via BeIn Sports)
On the last minute of injury time, Messi scored his 500th goal. It gave Barcelona the win and tied La Liga with Real for the top of the table. All of that going on and the guy still looked back to see if the ref was watching, before removing his shirt to celebrate. He got the yellow, but didn’t bother to put his shirt on to resume play. Everyone knew it was over.
Oh, and Messi never dives, nor bitches for calls despite being hacked every game. Lionel Andrés Messi is just drive, and genius.
Yeah yeah, Real Madrid has one more date to go and are still favorites to win La Liga. Jesus Christ; enjoy things dammit.
Great game. So back and forth. He is one tough sonavabitch.
That was a fucking amazing game. Just awesome. And Messi deserves all the praise he gets. He was the difference.
And Sergio Ramos was sent off!
So, Barcelona scores to make it 2-1 with roughly 20 minutes left in the game and the announcers are saying “Hay liga!”. I tell my dad, “Way too early for the announcers to be talking like that.”
Shortly thereafter, Ramos gets sent off. My dad goes, “Y ahora quien va a meter el gol en el minuto 90?”
Little did we know. Still a crazy awesome game.
James had a crackin’ goal. Those bastards were dictating play with 10 men at the end. Just amazing.