It took 72 minutes for the deadline to be
broken, but the Argentine was on hand to give Luis Enrique’s men a solid lead as they look to get the job done at Camp Nou in the second leg.

Both sides enjoyed chances throughout the game and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain wasted the first huge one for Arsenal in the 22nd minute when a loose ball fell to him inside the box, but the attacker’s effort was straight at Marc-Andre ter Stegen.

Luis Suarez came close to making it 1-0 Barca on the stroke of half time, but he headed narrowly wide from a Dani Alves cross.

Barca started the better of the two sides in the second half, with Neymar losing out on a one-on-one to Petr Cech before the breakthrough finally came when the famous MSN trident combined, ending in Neymar squaring to Messi for the Argentine to smash home the opener.

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