Messi, the Argentine international striker, scored two goals to the goal Real Madrid and make Barca win 2-0 in the semifinal first leg Champions League that took place on Thursday (28 / 4) early morning local time, at the Santiago Bernabeu.
Wenger, who saw himself as his team, Arsenal, beaten by the Spanish giants in the last 16 Champions League this season, praised Messi and believe that one of the team is dealing with it must be to its knees with a very impressive appearance.
"Messi has a quality called mentality, namely humility, desire to play football, happy to help his team, always have the desire, and you'll never see a bad reaction even though he had every opportunity to kick the ball," said Wenger as ESPNSoccernet reported.
"When you see the statistics of these figures, you must bend the knees and say that these figures are indeed very fantastic," he added.
"When a player can score 52 goals in modern football competition and 25 times the bait, and when you see the difficulty to score a goal, you can only say that it has become an exception to what can achieved by the player," said Wenger .
Messi is now just one goal adrift of the record of Ruud van Nistelrooy who can score 12 goals in one season in the Champions League competition. The Dutch veteran attacker carve his record in the 2002-03 season when he defended Manchester United.
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