The hand of Messi (scoring five goals in Spain is known as 'a hand')
AS, Spain
The 75,632 spectators who witnessed it live can say "I was there" in the same way as the people who saw basketball player Wilt Chamberlain score 100 points in one game, Mohammed Ali knock out Sonny Liston or saw long jumper Bob Beamon fly in Mexico. Messi scored five goals in a Champions League match. No one demands more of Messi than Messi himself, who makes every show a spectacle.
Football god Messi!
Bild, Germany
His five goals made Leverkusen look ridiculous. Lionel Messi dismantled the fifth best side in the Bundesliga in the Champions League round of last 16.
Magician Messi on a roll at Nou Camp
De Telegraaf, Netherlands
Lionel Messi was majestic again for Barcelona on Wednesday evening. The diminutive Argentinian was scoring at will in the round of 16 Champions League return. Messi became the first player ever to score five goals in a Champions League match. Bayer Leverkusen became the latest victim of football's miniature magician.
Stratospheric Messi
L'Équipe, France
Bayer's players Manuel Friedrich and Michal Kadlec had an argument at the interval in the first leg as to who would get to swap shirts with Lionel Messi. The Argentinian superstar made fun of Leverkusen, scoring five goals in Barcelona's 7-1 dismissal of the Germans to rewrite the history books. He was once again unstoppable and became the first player ever to score five goals in a UEFA Champions League match.
Messi masterclass rewrites record books
Telegraph, England
Lionel Messi became the first player to score five goals in one Champions League game last night and moved to within seven goals of becoming the highest goalscorer in Barcelona’s history at the age of just 24.
The endless collection of Messi wonders has one more rarity
Público, Portugal
What is there left to write about Lionel Messi? The Argentinian player never stops surprising and at Camp Nou he sank the team fifth in the Bundesliga.
(UEFA.com)
