Messi is Messi, I'm Paulo, says Dybala

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Juventus manager Max Allegri believes his side are now respected in Europe after they battered Barcelona 3-0 in the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final in Turin.

Juventus remained in possession throughout the match, with striker Dybala putting his side ahead as early as in the seventh minute of the match.

Xavi singled out Paulo Dybala and Gonzalo Higuain as the most risky among the Juventus lineup, saying: "I would say that the most talented member of the Juventus team is Dybala".

Barca lost 4-0 at Paris Saint-Germain in the round of 16, only to win the return leg 6-1 and go through 6-5 on aggregate - the first time such a first-leg deficit had ever been overturned in the European Cup.

"I'm very happy at Juventus, my renewal is very close and I want to take advantage of what I'm experiencing here", he told Mega after the game.

This is published unedited from the ANI feed.

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The 23-year-old collected Juan Cuadrado's ball with his back to goal, turned from 12 yards out and curled a left-footed shot past Barca goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen inside the far post.

Juventus and Argentinian star Paulo Dybala is one of the top three players in the world, according to Juve goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon. "If we do things as we need to, we'll turn it around". You can see the Juventus legend's goal here.

Luis Enrique said he was "100 percent responsible" after Barcelona suffered another damaging away defeat in the Champions League, this time at the hands of Juventus. "It was a great victory, achieved by everyone".

With the second leg at Camp Nou only a week away, the Serie A leaders are set to field a much-changed starting XI when they play Pescara.

Barcelona had the ball in the back of the net six minutes later, but Lionel Messi's strike was ruled out due to a foul in the build up.

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". "They [Juve] are more experienced and the start of the game hurt us".

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