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18th Mar 2015

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The man's a nutmeg machine

Darragh Murphy

Lionel Messi sees the space between your legs as a tunnel that leads to goal.

The Argentine has brought his nutmegging a-game to Barcelona’s home leg of their round of 16 tie with Manchester City.

In the first half alone, the little magician pulled off a pair of stunning nutmegs on City duo James Milner

and Fernandinho.

Pellegrini’s half-time team talk consisted of four words – “close them f**kin’ legs.”

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