Leo Messi always appears in the important moments, and therefore no extrañó that it did it to the beginning of the second half in Saint Mamés, when the FC Barcelona went losing 2-0 in The Cathedral, in the party of gone of eighth of final of Glass of the King 2016-17.
The Argentinian star of the Barcelona group began 2017 as it finish it: marvelling. It annotated a golazo of direct fault, from a position escorada in the left band and that remembered to another fault that transformed years backwards in the Calderón against the Athletic of Madrid.
In this occasion, however, the goalkeeper Gorka Iraizoz touched the balloon and by little detains the shot, although finally the balloon rebasó the line of goal and there was not space for a "goal ghost" in The Cathedral. The goal gave hopes to the FC Barcelona, although the culés did not have many more clear occasions of goal along the party.
Mark in Bilbao, of vital importance for the Barça
Independently of this, the fact to mark in Saint Mamés was of vital importance for the ones of Luis Enrique in the eliminatory, taking into account the double value of the goals in this type of rounds when it produces tie.
Leo Messi, in spite of not being able to contribute to a hypothetical victory of the Barcelona, allowed that the team culé did not leave of Basque earths with the head gacha. It will touch to follow working of face to the duel in front of the Villarreal and, especially, for the turn of eighth of Glass of the King in the Camp Nou.