Encumbran To Messi and put in doubt the crisis of the Barça

For Daniel Taylor of TheGuardian , "Messi racked to the City. It was everywhere, always wanting the ball, and knowing always what do with her. Messi chose a good moment to remember to all that really is the image more electrizante in the world futbolístico, the four times Balloon of Gold with the balloon in the feet". The Independent Also praised the performance of the Argentinian, with the headline: "The magic Messi had a round day: a brilliant Boat throws to the City of the League of Champions. The distance in class was personificada by Messi, whose 67º goal in the League of Champions, that annotated to the 67 minutes, carried him to be to only four of the record of Raúl?.

The Daily Mirror declared that "a hypnotic Messi and an anonymous Agüero "were" the history of the exit of the Manchester City of the Champions League", and continued declaring: "Messi is magic in nights like this, the balloon seems hit to his left foot, doing that good defenders seem novices, shelving them as if they were not there". For Oliver Holt: "The Argentinian was intocable, tornando the previous worries to the party according to which was happening a species of personal crisis in this season in a mockery. Messi racked to Lescott and to Kompany all night".

The British press also did upsetting in the importance of the result for the Barça, taking into account the recent speculations about a bajón of form of the team. Matt Dickenson Wrote in TheTimes : "Like this it is as it sees a crisis in the Camp Nou, a moment magic of Neymar, a dribling of Andrés Iniesta and, the most delicious vision of all, a touch bewitched of Lionel Messi that puts to the fans to his feet and puts to the Barcelona in the quarter-finals of the League of Champions. If this is the end of a glorious period in Catalonia, is full of hope".

An opinion shared by Henry Winter in the Daily Telegraph, that simply said: "With Neymar, Messi and Iniesta happening the ball, opening spaces and looming in attack, with Xavi and Cesc Fábregas, dominating in the centre of the field and with Alves and Jordi Alba attacking by the bands.... The rumours of the death of the Barcelona went clearly exaggerated".