also Leo Messi´s teammates praised the skills and fantasctic goal of Lionel. The following are some of the comments made by the other Barcelona players:


Andres Iniesta:

My congratulations to him. Leo has evident qualities and he has shown that again today. In five minutes things got difficult, I don’t know how to put it, but when you were 3-0 up, winning 3-2 is frustrating. Nothing is sorted, until the game is over we can’t claim to be through. We have a good lead but we will have to work to do over there”.

Very similar, he starts off in a similar position and even the dribbler at the end was the same. It was a work of art.

Deco:

We are happy because apart from a great footballer, he is a great friend too. I have seen some great goals like Ronaldo’s against Compostela and Maradona’s against England, but this was the best I have seen. It is very similar, but I think it was more difficult, the early dummies are more difficult and then to still have the strength to do what he did, it’s even more impressive.

No doubt we have some brilliant players in ‘Samu’, ‘Ronnie’ and ‘Leo’, who has a great future and they’re saying he could become the best in the world.

The tie is not over yet because Getafe have shown that they can turn it all around in just two minutes. They will be stronger there but we will make sure we go through.

Albert Jorquera:

A great goal, we knew that Messi can do anything but the goal today was quite spectacular.

Before the game we’d have taken the 5-2 but after half-time we should have managed to keep a clean sheet.