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Lionel Messi 'Still Getting Started' After Inter Win


Lionel Messi just played his first whole 90 mins game since the start of the 2019/2020 football season. Barcelona were taken unawares with Inter Milan striking first in yesterday's Champions League game. Eventually, the Blaugrana won the game 2 -1, with Luis Suarez netting twice to earn Barcelona the much needed three points. Suarez's second goal was clinically set up by Messi. 

Messi may not have scored in yesterday's game, but he had so much influence on Barcelona's attacking play. After the game, the 32-year-old Barcelona captain said, "I am still getting started.
"This the first time that I have completed 90 minutes. As the season goes on I will gradually let loose."

Messi was asked about his relationship with Antoine Griezmann, one of the team's summer signings, to which he replied, "Obviously we have no problem. There is a good relationship with everyone. We are united. We had trouble getting going in this game, but we are getting better."
Barcelona manager Ernesto Valverde said, "It's the first game he started and finished.
'And it was the first game with a real physical strain because of the rival. And we know he can decide a game with one piece of skill.' 
Antonio Conte, Inter's manager, was quite unimpressed with the refereeing of the game and the treatment he received from referee Damir Skomina who booked him in the second half.
'We could have had a penalty in the second half. It was a very doubtful decision. Then they equalized,' he said.
'It's hard to take because with all we created we deserved more than Barcelona. But congratulations to them. In the end the play of a couple of great players changed everything. It's a shame for us.
'People who know me, know I find it hard to take defeat but there is some satisfaction coming here against a team that is set up to win the Champions League and we were able to hurt them, not as much as we could have.
'You know in these games everything can change with one move or goal. The glass is half full because of the attitude and the way we played. But the glass is half empty because we go home with nothing.' 
Of his yellow card he added: 'I showed respect [to the match officials] but they have to respect us too. I am upset, I'm upset that we lost the game.'


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