LIVE : BARCELONA - JUVENTUS Unbelievable!!!! Fans left stunned as Lionel Messi is BENCHED for Barcelona's Champions League game at Juventus

The news that Lionel Messi was benched by Barcelona boss Ernesto Valverde got Twitter talking on Wednesday night.

Anything involving the Argentinean star does, of course, but it is usually one of Messi's great goals or performances that gets social media buzzing, not the fact that he has been left on the sidelines.


In truth, the move is probably just an attempt from Valverde to keep his star man fresh for the weekend's big La Liga clash against Valencia, but people aren't used to seeing Messi treated as a "mere mortal".
They're all going to look a bit daft when he comes on and scores the winner, aren't they?