Lionel Messi raises his fist after scoring the third and final goal against Atletico Madrid on Sunday
Barcelona's Holy Trinity (L-R) of Luis Suarez, Neymar and Messi all scored in the 3-1 defeat of Atletico
But
after assisting the first two goals last night and scoring the third,
Messi gave a rare interview for the club's in-house television channel
and said: 'I hear so many things about me. It has been claimed in the
past that I have had a bad relationship with [Pep] Guardiola, [Samuel]
Eto'o, [Zlatan] Ibrahimovic, with Bojan [Krkic] and even that I had got
rid of a lot of people. It is not true. And it is not good for people to
look for rivalry between me and the coach.
'I
am painted as the one who runs the club but I am just a like any other
player in the dressing room. I don't take the decisions. And I don't
decide who takes the decisions.'
Messi
will be in Zurich on Monday for the Ballon d'Or ceremony where he is
expected to lose out to Cristiano Ronaldo for the second consecutive
season. He called for unity at Barcelona as they try to catch Carlo
Ancelotti's leaders.
He
said: 'We have six months left and we want to try to achieve some
important things. That they throw the dirt at us from the outside is not
going to stop us doing that.'
Messi was involved in everything... even conceding the penalty that led to Atletico Madrid's consolation goal
Messi told Barcelona's television channel that rumours he had fallen out with Luis Enrique were not true
Messi is expected to lose out to Cristiano Ronaldo for a second successive year in the Ballon d'Or
