Another tough night against a supposedly inferior team, but Rayo deserve an awful lot of credit for staying in the game as long as they did and taking the lead.
That they did so was due in no small part to Junior Firpo being in a different district of Madrid.
In fact, he wasn’t on his team-mates’ wavelength for much of the match, and Messi’s first half-reaction when Firpo fell over the ball rather than play a one-two told its own story.
Let’s be crystal clear. Junior Firpo isn’t a Barca player. Never was, never will be.