We look for meaning -- especially these days -- and there was plenty to be had in an empty Camp Nou. Kylian Mbappe's hat trick -- only the second Barca conceded at home in the Champions League after Dynamo Kiev's Andriy Shevchenko in 1997 -- propelled Paris Saint-Germain past Barcelona 4-1 and, to some, it will symbolise him taking the baton from Lionel Messi.
That's nonsense. That's premature. Not just because Messi is Messi (and because that other guy in Turin might have something to say about this) but because Mbappe is writing his own history, one not defined by others.