There were six minutes left on a wet, wild night in Madrid and somehow there still had not been any goals, when
Lionel Messi raised his arms on the right. The message was clear. “Give me the ball.” So they did. As soon as he got it, just about everyone in the stadium knew what he would try but that did not mean they could stop him. He ran inside, away from Thomas Partey, away from Saúl Niguez and rolled it into Luis Suárez, on the edge of the area. There, the Uruguayan did what he had to do and gave it right back. Messi bent it first time inside the far post, beyond the dive of Jan Oblak.
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