The Chelsea forward hopes his team will notice how to contain the urban center star
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Barcelona star Lionel Messi is also the world's best however he's "not invincible", per Chelsea forward Pedro.
Pedro spent eight seasons enjoying aboard Messi at Camp Nou, however he faces the Argentina international once Chelsea host Barca within the 1st leg of their Champions League last-16 tie on Tuesday.
While the European country international talked up Messi, he hopes his team-mates will notice how to prevent the 30-year-old — United Nations agency has did not score in eight games against Chelsea.
"Messi is that the best player within the world, however he isn't unvanquishable," Pedro told United Kingdom newspapers.
"Obviously, it's urban center. It's Leo Messi. terribly|it's extremely|it is very|it's totally} troublesome to prevent this guy as a result of he is very fast, terribly clever. But, look, it isn't not possible.
"He's on another level. nobody will do what he will. For this reason, to possess compete with him is special. Special on behalf of me, and one thing to inform my sons within the future as a result of, probably, he'll be thought-about the simplest in history."
Chelsea surprised urban center within the semi-finals in 2011-12, on the thanks to their one and solely Champions League crown.
Pedro, United Nations agency headed to Stamford Bridge in 2015, aforesaid he still remembered the tie, that the Premier League outfit won 3-2 on combination.
"I keep in mind these games thus well. Chelsea were perpetually ugly opponents, terribly troublesome in these games: compact, sturdy in defence, ironed okay," he said.
"For that reason, we tend to perpetually found it troublesome against them.
"For the players of urban center, they will be thinking this tie goes to be terribly robust, this game for them, as a result of Chelsea ar sturdy. Chelsea ar compact, and it's ne'er simple to play against United States."