Ousmane Dembele replaced Messi in the 25th minute after the Argentine was examined by club doctors on the sidelines following a challenge by Sevilla’s Franco Vazquez
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Competition favourites Barcelona have kicked off their Champions League campaign in emphatic style by seeing off PSV 4-0 at Camp Nou, courtesy of a Lionel Messi hat-trick.
Barcelona made it three wins from three matches at the start of the 2018-19 La Liga campaign courtesy of a 8-2 victory over newly-promoted Huesca at Camp Nou on Sunday night.
Sevilla made the breakthrough in the ninth minute of the match, although it would have been disallowed but for the invention of VAR, which showed that the linesman was wrong to flag Sarabia offside
The La Liga champions revealed that they had a club-record income of €914 million (£808.7 million), with profits of €13 million (£11.5 million) after tax.
By the victory, the Catalan side have matched Real Sociedad’s unbeaten run between 1979 and 1980
Messi had given his side the slight advantage with an away goal in last month’s first leg at Stamford Bridge, and he was once again instrumental with two more goals and an assist to seal a 4-1 aggregate triumph.
The France international suffered the problem during Sunday’s 4-2 win at Real Sociedad, which saw him come off the bench to replace Paulinho midway through the second half.
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The 20-year-old completed a £135 million move to Camp Nou at the end of August, just one year after he moved to Bundesliga side Borussia Dortmund in a £13 million deal.
The award, run by Italian newspaper, Tuttosport, and voted for by a panel of journalists, is likely to be a two-horse race between Mbappe, who starred in Monaco’s Ligue 1 title-triumph last season before joining PSG on an initial loan deal, and new Barcelona forward Dembele.
Dembele, who became the club’s record signing when he joined from Borussia Dortmund for an initial €105 million, arrived at El Prat airport in a wheelchair and was accompanied by club doctor Ricard Pruna
The Frenchman’s career move has not got off to the best start, though, as he was withdrawn 25 minutes into his first full league debut in Saturday’s 2-1 win over Getafe with a thigh problem.
The 20-year-old France international signed a five-year contract at the Camp Nou alongside club President, Josep Maria Bartomeu, on Monday afternoon
The Catalan giants signed the highly-rated France international for 105 million Euros (£96.8 million) – the second highest transfer fee of all time behind Neymar, who switched Barca for Paris St Germain earlier this summer for £200.6 million