lionel messi's brilliant nutmeg on james milner left the manchester city midfielder on his backside, pep guardiola covering his face and twitter reacting to the barcelona star's masterclass it was messi's second nutmeg of the match, having already inflicted the same embarrassment on fernandinho after the argentina captain's assist created the game's only goal for ivan rakitic 'i've got my legs closed up here,' said sky sports commentator gary neville, who labelled the milner nutmeg 'barbaric' and was among those admiring the tutorial from the world's best footballer james milner approaches barcelona star lionel messi during their champions league tie on wednesday  messi slips the ball through manchester city midfielder milner's legs at the nou camp  milner slides as messi nutmegs him and goes the opposite way during their champions league match  milner is left on his backside as messi runs away from the england international with the ball  former barcelona manager pep guardiola reacts to the nutmeg in the stands at the nou camp  bayern munich manager guardiola reacts to the ridiculous skill from messi during the barca match  match of the day presenter gary lineker settled the argument of who's better between the barcelona star and real madrid's cristiano ronaldo 'messi is indisputably the greatest player ever to don a pair of football boots don't even attempt to argue the point,' he tweeted manchester united's ashley young simply wrote 'messi wow', while queens park rangers striker charlie austin added: 'pep's reaction says it all' he was referring to former barcelona boss pep guardiola, sitting in the stands in awe, covering his eyes liverpool defender jose enrique tweeted: 'if messi played against city on his own, he would still win the game [he] is amazing best in the world when he wants' stoke city goalkeeper jack butland echoed commentator neville by 'watching the game with my legs closed' and dutch manager ruud gullit added: 'omg messi made milner famous' then there was andre schurrle who simply wrote 'again and again and again' while darts player adrian 'jackpot' lewis wrote: 'messi could nutmeg a mermaid' england legend gary lineker settled the argument of who's better between messi and cristiano ronaldo  manchester united's ashley young was among those admiring the barcelona star and wrote: 'messi wow' queens park rangers striker charlie austin wrote that guardiola's reaction said it all about messi's skills  liverpool defender jose enrique wrote messi could play against city on his own and 'still win the game' matt le tissier tweeted about how he was sitting back and watching messi work his magic in barcelona  stoke city goalkeeper jack butland echoed gary neville by 'watching the game with my legs closed' dutch manager ruud gullit took to twitter and added: 'omg messi made milner famous' former chelsea player andre schurrle wrote about messi's nutmegs: 'again and again and again' darts player adrian 'jackpot' lewis wrote on twitter that 'messi could nutmeg a mermaid' crystal palace defender joel ward simply used the hashtag #messi with prayer emoticons  former manchester united and now leicester city forward tom lawrence added: 'messi is a joke' yannick bolasie tweeted 'messi is something else' as barcelona gave manchester city a masterclass  bolton's on loan midfielder barry bannan wrote messi 'ain't human' after his ridiculous skills  match of the day presenter lineker added more about messi's greatness following his masterclass  video enrique hails 'special night' for barca  messi was the architect for barcelona as they gave manchester city a masterclass at times on wednesday  messi and manchester city goalkeeper joe hart exchange words after the barca star misses a chance  a ‘nutmeg’ is the technique of rolling the ball between an opponent’s legs, and gains extra acclaim when the attacking player retains possession after performing the trick the origins of the word have long been debated, with the most popular theory being that nutmegs are slang for a rather private area of the male anatomy — a notion put forward by countdown star susie dent, of dictionary corner, who on wednesday night tweeted: ‘nutmegging in football comes from the centuries old slang ‘nutmegs’, meaning ‘testicles’ in case messi is ever interested’ however, the use of the word nutmeg to mean leg in cockney rhyming slang has also been put forward as an explanation, while another claim is that it comes from the practice used in nutmeg exports between america and england in the 18th century, when nutmegs were such a valuable commodity that unscrupulous exporters used to mix wooden replicas into the sacks being shipped across the atlantic being nutmegged soon came to imply stupidity on the part of the duped victim and cleverness on the part of the trickster it later caught on in football, implying that the player whose legs the ball had been played through had been tricked, or, nutmegged in spanish, the skill is known as ‘cano’ or ‘tunel’ they’ve certainly got plenty of tunel vision at the nou camp thanks to lionel messi
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lionel messi inflicts nutmegs on fernandinho and james milner . the nutmeg on milner leaves the city midfielder on his backside . barcelona 1 0 manchester city (agg 3 1)   read the match report here . read: messi hits back at critics as forward celebrates father's day . click here for all the latest barcelona news 