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"Bootless" Messi provides assist to sink Real Madrid

Lionel Messi provides celebrates with teammate Aleix Vidal [Photo: Courtesy]

Four little words that get shouted at youngsters playing football around the globe every single week.

And on Saturday Lionel Messi showed exactly why this command is so important, when he continued playing after losing his BOOT, picked out his teammate with a cross, and killed Real Madrid off in the dying embers of El Clasico.

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