Messi majestic as Barcelona crush Chelsea

Lionel Messi scored two splendid objectives and made another for Ousmane Dembele as Barcelona whipped Chelsea 3-0 on Wednesday to achieve the Champions League quarter-finals 4-1 on total. 

Messi opened the scoring following two minutes and eight seconds, the snappiest objective of his vocation, slipping the ball through Thibaut Courtois' legs from a tight point. 

The Argentine forward made the second with a rankling keep running from the midway line which left three Chelsea protectors faltering afterward, before squaring the ball for Ousmane Dembele to rifle home his first objective for the club. 

Marcos Alonso hit the post and Olivier Giroud was lamentable not to be granted a punishment for a tangle with Gerard Pique as Chelsea endeavored to dispatch a rebound, before Messi slaughtered the tie with his 100th Champions League objective. 

Chelsea administrator Antonio Conte said his side required an ideal show to advance yet they began shockingly at a stuffed Nou Camp when Luis Suarez teed up Messi, who pressed a low strike through the legs of Courtois from a tight edge. 

Chelsea reacted well with Giroud and Willian, who scored in the 1-1 first-leg draw at Stamford Bridge, especially splendid in assault. 

In any case, a misstep from Cesc Fabregas on the midway line enabled Messi to soften up again following 20 minutes and the number 10 remaining the Chelsea backline destroyed to set up the second objective, expertly wrapped up by Dembele. 

The English side, now requiring two objectives, almost got one preceding halftime. N'Golo Kante dragged a shot inches wide and Marcos Alonso slammed a free commence the post. 

It was the third time over the two legs that Chelsea hit the woodwork and Antonio Rudiger did it again in the end organizes. 

Giroud seemed, by all accounts, to be brought around Pique in the territory yet arbitrator Damir Skomina did not bow to Chelsea's dissents for a punishment, before Messi drove at the guard again and opened home Barcelona's third in the 62nd moment, shooting low between Courtois' legs for the second time. 

Barcelona achieved the Champions League quarter-finals for the eleventh successive season while Chelsea were left confronting a fight to meet all requirements for the opposition again as they scrap for a main four complete in the Premier League.