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Never forget how Messi won Barca's iconic pass-penalty because the commentary is unreal

Lionel Messi produced countless legendary moments during his time at Barcelona, but it’s pretty hard to beat that pass-penalty against Celta Vigo from 2016.

It’s not often that you see a professional player having the bottle to replicate what Johan Cruyff and Jesper Olsen so famously executed, never mind arguably the greatest male footballer in history.

However, that’s exactly what Messi delivered alongside Luis Suarez in a 6-1 La Liga win from the 2015/16 season, producing one of the most audacious stunts that we’ve seen in modern football.

After all, there’s a long list of duos who failed to get the party trick quite right with Robert Pires and Thierry Henry’s effort gaining infamous status, while Sergio Ramos and Karim Benzema’s attempt was chalked off by the referee.

Neymar and Mauro Icardi managed to pull it off for Paris Saint-Germain by the skin of their teeth, but you’ve got to dock them points for delivering it during a pre-season friendly.

So there’s no denying that Messi’s gorgeous little tap to Suarez, who proceeded to lash the ball past Sergio Álvarez, ranks as the finest pass-penalty to have been converted this side of Cruyff’s game-changer.

However, what if we were to tell you that there was just as much to enjoy about the way that Messi won that iconic penalty in the first place? Yes, that’s right.

While there might not have been a head-spinning trick behind Messi forcing a foul from the Celta defence, it was accompanied by some of the greatest commentary that we’ve ever heard courtesy of Ray Hudson.

The legendary broadcaster is famous the world over for his love for Messi, producing many of the finest and funniest commentary soundbites to ever be projected from a gantry.

But the way that Hudson described

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