The 22-year-old lauded the five-time Ballon d'Or champ after the Blaugrana facilitated past Spurs at Wembley
Harry Winks hailed Lionel Messi as the 'best ever' after Barcelona dashed Tottenham's Champions League trusts in Wednesday's 4-2 win at Wembley.
Messi scored two and made two as Mauricio Pochettino's group neglected to recuperate from annihilation in Milan two weeks back, falling six focuses behind the best two in the race to qualify from Group B, and Winks trusts his side were at last fixed by the 'remarkable' Argentinean.
Totheham fell 2-0 behind inside the principal half at Wembley before Harry Kane split the back payments soon after half time, just for Messi to reestablish Barca's leverage with a short proximity wrap up. Erik Lamela pulled one back for Tottenham before Messi included a fourth in the last moment.
Winks, who was beginning in his first Champions League session of the season, played the full a hour and a half as he proceeds with his recovery from the lower leg damage which kept him out of last season's run-in, and a while later talked about his pride at having imparted a pitch to the five-time Balon d'Or victor.
"I enjoyed it," he said
"To play against him was a respect. The outcome takes away a considerable measure of the pleasure from the diversion, however in years to come, when I think back and say I played against — as I would like to think — the best player to ever play football, it will be a glad minute.
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"It's so hard to think about that correct now since we've lost and, at last, that is the most vital thing. I'm gutted.
"The main way I can truly portray [facing him] is he's simply finished football. The man just knows where everyone is. His weight of pass is simply outstanding. He's simply uncommon. Be that as it may, everybody who has played against him has said a similar thing for quite a long time."
Winks showed up for Spurs keep going season on their hurried to the last-16 where they were dispensed with by Juventus, and the 22-year-old England universal, who broke into the primary group at White Hart Lane in 2016, has savored the chance to gain from Europe's best as Tottenham try to set up themselves as a consistent nearness on the landmass.
"For me, it was exceptional to play against a player like that. I took in a ton from it. I'll watch the diversion back and I'll dismember my amusement. There were times when I gave the ball away carelessly, which wasn't sufficient."















