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- Updated: October 30, 2016
Pep Guardiola hopes his players are more prepared for the “X-ray” awareness of Lionel Messi when Manchester City meet Barcelona again in the Champions League.
The five-time Ballon d’Or winner opened the scoring when the sides met in the Nou Camp recently and at times appeared to be strolling around the pitch but Guardiola believes this is when Messi is at his most dangerous, making use of his understanding of the space around him.
That proved to be the case in Catalonia, with the 29-year-old grabbing a hat-trick in a 4-0 win and Guardiola has warned his City players to take heed ahead of the return match at the Etihad on Tuesday night.
“Messi spends the match making a mental X-ray of every space, every moment,” …
