Sunil Chhetri, the captain of the Indian national team, greeted Barcelona superstar Lionel Messi after the Argentine scored an astonishing goal in high-level functionality in the Champions League victory over Naples on Saturday night.
“Messi,” Chhetri tweeted with three-handed emojis intertwined after the Blue-blue captain scored a scandalous purpose in the 23rd minute to bring the score to 3-1 in his team’s favor. “I was late after centuries to watch live football, it’s valuable,” he tweeted after he slept.
With a delicate fit at the edge of 1-1 after the February first leg, blue-wing defender Clement Lenglet opened the scoring at the Camp Nou for the hosts before Messi worked on his magic.
The little Argentina picked up the ball from the right and made his way through three Napoli defenders, and regained the balance to wrap the ball in the farthest corner. Messi had offside purpose before Luis Suarez scored 3-1 in the afternoon with a penalty. Lorenzo Insigne had the Napoli Consolation.
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