Juventus will, of course, be favored in the second leg on April 19, but still fresh in everyone's mind is the 6-1 rout of Paris Saint-Germain which saw Barcelona become the first team in the history of the competition to overturn a 4-0 first-leg loss.
"We knew it was going to be a game like this, Barcelona left many spaces behind, attacked a lot and left gaps that we knew we had to take advantage of".
His clinical showing in Turin is likely to increase the clamour further but the 23-year-old explained he is close to agreeing a news deal with Juventus.
After being comprehensively outplayed by Bayern Munich in their 2012/13 quarterfinal, then-coach Antonio Conte warned that it would be a very long time before a Serie A club won the UCL. I'm responsible 101 percent.
But he added: "Certainly, if we get back to our level we can score four goals against anyone".
"We need to be happy with all we have done, but we need to keep our feet on the ground because we still haven't achieved anything", Allegri said. While Juventus played well, with manager Max Allegri's careful tactical plan delivering optimum results, they were still fortunate to escape suffering at the hands of Messi's genius.
This time the feeling surrounding Barcelona was despair, not anger.
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Although there weren't any drastic cuts to services, there are still changes that impact education, infrastructure and healthcare. Friesen said that can be done by controlling the growth in spending every year rather than by imposing deep cuts.
Meanwhile, Juventus captain Gianluigi Buffon has advised his teammates that they should not take Barcelona for granted despite a 3-0 lead. "It was a great victory, achieved by everyone".
With the match out of reach, Barcelona set out in pursuit of what could turn out to be a valuable away goal and they seemed to be on the verge of getting it when Suarez sent the ball racing toward the net in the 68th minute.
Giorgio Chiellini's bullet header put a dagger in Barca's heart in the 55th minutes, and they never recovered despite pushing everyone up for an away goal.
While he is not a direct replacement for 29-year-old Messi, when the Barcelona legend eventually rides off into the sunset, Dybala will be a front-runner to assume the throne in Argentinian football.
Juventus also had reason to feel aggrieved by refereeing decisions, as Cuadrado had a goal ruled out for offside - but television replays indicated it should have been allowed.
However, Dybala had already scored the decisive goals, a day after Italian daily La Repubblica had quoted him as saying in an interivew: "There is only one Messi, like (Diego) Maradona. No one has ever told me that I am his heir".
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