After Barcelona humiliated Liverpool in a 3:0 defeat in the first leg. Jose Mourinho praised Messi by calling him the God of football.
Mourinho said:
“God of Football made it completely different,” when he talked about Messi’s performance during the game.
“Fabinho and even [Roberto] Firmino looks small [for the Messi’s free-kick] but is not small.
“Firmino is the last one but this side, the goalkeeper gave one metre to the diagonal to cover that situation and it’s impossible to stop.
“Luis Suarez’s movement [for the first goal] is phenomenal. One metre here, and I bring the defender with me, at least mentally because the defender thinks I’m going in that direction and now I’m going to attack the space in front. And goodbye.”