United's Champions League campaign is over as they lose 3-0 on the night and 4-0 on aggregate
Manchester United are out of the Champions League after losing 4-0 on aggregate to Barcelona. United, trailing 1-0 from the first leg, started brightly but were then undone by brilliance from Messi and a glaring mistake from goalkeeper David de Gea.
The opening goal changed the encounter and Barcelona scored another when Messi's speculative effort was bundled into the net by David de Gea. Philippe Coutinho then added a wonderful third goal after the break when he cut inside and fired in from distance.
Messi put the hosts ahead with a fine curling effort from 20 yards in the 16th minute and four minutes later De Gea let a weaker shot from the edge of the area squirm under his body for the Argentine's second.
Philippe Coutinho added a third for Barca in the 61st minute, curling a stunning effort into the top corner from distance.
United hit the bar inside the first 40 seconds through Marcus Rashford but were dominated after going behind.
Alexis Sanchez's diving header, which was spectacularly saved by Barca goalkeeper Marc Andre ter Stegen in the 90th minute, was as close at the visitors came in the second half.
It was a sobering night for United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer on the ground where he scored his most famous goal, the stoppage-time winner in the 1999 Champions League final.
He’s given his verdict to BT Sport:
Messi?
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Philippe Coutinho added a third for Barca in the 61st minute, curling a stunning effort into the top corner from distance.
United hit the bar inside the first 40 seconds through Marcus Rashford but were dominated after going behind.
Alexis Sanchez's diving header, which was spectacularly saved by Barca goalkeeper Marc Andre ter Stegen in the 90th minute, was as close at the visitors came in the second half.
It was a sobering night for United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer on the ground where he scored his most famous goal, the stoppage-time winner in the 1999 Champions League final.
Solskjaer reacts
Here’s what Solskjaer has said to BT Sport:
If you want the result you need a performance. We started well, created some decent chances but then he (Messi) hits that in the bottom corner, he’s top quality and he was the difference of course, 2-0 straight after was game over.He’s different class him and Cristiano, everyone agrees on that, tonight he has shown his quality and that’s (Barcelona) the level we have to aspire to get to we know we’re not there yet we have lots of work to do, but we can get there.If we want to get back to Manchester United’s true level and traditions we have to challenge the Barcelonas, they were a couple of levels above us.We want to play these games again next year so we have a massive week coming up no point dwelling on what could have been it could have been different if we started better but now we have to concentrate and focus on this week.
Jesse Lingard reacts
He’s given his verdict to BT Sport:
Especially not in these games, we dominated at the start had a couple of chances and the game could have gone different if we put them away.
Messi?
One of the best in the wold, he brought his A game tonight and he knows what he can do.
Big task tonight?
Always underdogs but we had to back ourselves and believe and for the first 15 mins if it went our way things would have been different.
Done yourselves justice?
It’s football and chances in these big games are massive and if we take them it’s a different game.
Top four?
Champions League is a big comp and we’re fighting to get back in it.
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