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Liverpool Vs Barcelona: Lionel Messi is Barcelona's diva in the best possible sense of the word

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Watch out for Lionel Messi's final goal. You'll see it in a high-pressure match where he's already scored once or twice; when it arrives, you'll notice that this goal is far more spectacular than the ones that came before it.

Witness, for example, the first leg of this season's Barcelona's UEFA Champions League semifinal against Liverpool, in which Messi found the net twice last week. His first strike was a routine affair, following up to tap in a Luis Suarez shot that had fallen kindly to him after pinging off the crossbar. His second, a free-kick from a distance most might expect to be fairly safe, set social media alight.

Each new video of this goal, shot from a different angle revealed another level of Messi's beguiling brilliance. Watching it, you felt that Alisson, Liverpool's unfortunate goalkeeper, couldn't have stopped it even if his team had punctured the ball and turned off the stadium lights.

Many of us wonder at just how good Messi is. Yet we marvel even more at just how much better he seems to be getting, often in the course of the same match despite being on the "wrong" side of 30. The effect is similar to that of seeing an elite tennis player, having gone up two sets in a Grand Slam, become truly relaxed and start to make extravagant groundstrokes.

It is often said that to be at their best, footballers should play with freedom, but it's rarely stressed just how difficult that actually is. To have the calmness amid the fury to place a strike or pass as if you were still back in the schoolyard: that's the preserve of precious few players, and it all comes down to a supreme sense of occasion.

Andy Barton, a performance consultant who works with several leading UK athletes, has spoken of how Wayne Rooney treats the atmosphere in a soccer stadium; to him, it's a stage where the audience have gathered with the excitement of seeing him in his element. For Rooney, said Barton, there is no pressure, at least not at the level you might expect; instead, when he looks up at the stands, he is energized and exhilarated that so many people have come to witness him at work.
Mohamed Salah and Roberto Firmino will both miss the second leg of Liverpool’s Champions League semi-final against Barcelona on Tuesday, Jürgen Klopp has confirmed.

Salah, Liverpool’s leading scorer this season with 26 goals, must sit out the return leg at Anfield having suffered concussion in an accidental collision with Newcastle goalkeeper Martin Dubravka on Saturday. Under Fifa protocols a player can not return to competitive action for at least six days after a head injury. While that enables the Egypt international to feature in the potentially decisive league match against Wolverhampton Wanderers on Sunday, he can play no part in Liverpool’s attempt to overturn a 3-0 deficit against the Spanish champions. Firmino remains sidelined with the groin muscle injury that forced him to miss the dramatic 3-2 win at St James’ Park.

“Both are not available for tomorrow,” Klopp said on Monday. “It is a concussion and that means he will not even be allowed to play. He feels OK but that is not good enough from a medical point of view. He is desperate [to play], but we cannot do it.”

The Liverpool manager admitted the absence of two-thirds of his first-choice attack complicates an already formidable task against Barcelona.

“There is hope and it is football,” he said. “We are far away from giving up but we are not in a situation where we say it will happen 100%. But it is football.

“Look, two of the world’s best strikers are not available tomorrow and we have to score four goals against Barcelona to go through in 90 minutes. It doesn’t make life easier but as long as we have 11 players on the pitch we will try. That’s what we want to show, nothing else. We want to celebrate the Champions League campaign, either with a proper finish or another goal. That is the plan: just try and if we can do it wonderful and if not, then fail in the most beautiful way.”