Welcome to SI's

SI's Climate Football Podcast, where each week we discuss the latest in the world of soccer.

I am SI.com soccer editor, Abbey Creditor, joined today by

S. I senior writer Grant Wall and once again for God it's been forever from

across the pond Ben Littleton

S.I.com contributor.

Guys, welcome to today's show.

Thanks for coming back on, Ben.

I was just telling you I'm having a lot of nostalgia here.

I might even cry.

Try and hold it together.

Come on Grant, you can do it.

Guys, I want to start today, obviously talking Champions League.

This is the day after Leonel Messy put Jerome Boetang on the wrong

side of highlights around the world and really just kind of reaffirmed what we already

knew is that he's incredible, but his performance yesterday in leading Barcelona to a 3-0 win in the first leg of the Champions League semifinals over Byron Munich guys We think we've seen it all with Messy and then Grant he goes and does something like this.

Well, Barcelona has been on a really

started to get on the same page,

but messy, as messy can do, took it again

to a higher level yesterday of just individual brilliance and has to be one of the

top five games he's ever had when you just look at the occasion the opponent

Pep cordiola the manager he had for so long at Barcelona and even the game itself that

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