Messi rises to meet Denis Suárez’s corner with a header from the centre of the box, but his effort flies just too high over the crossbar.

Messi opens the scoring, timing his run into the centre of the box and guiding a left‑footed shot into the bottom right corner after a neat pass from Arda Turan.

Messi again finds space in the centre of the box and strikes with his left foot, but Sommer gets down to save the shot low to his bottom left.

Messi drops deeper to orchestrate play and slips a precise pass to Iniesta, whose left‑footed shot from outside the box curls just wide of the right post.

Messi feeds Rafinha outside the box, setting up a left‑footed effort that is cut out by the Gladbach defence before it can test the keeper.

Ghosting into the area, Messi meets Lucas Digne’s cross with a header toward the bottom right corner, but Sommer reacts quickly to make the save.