Rio Ferdinand Tells the Secret of Messy Stopping

Messy's enjoying a great season. He has scored 43 goals (!) this edition including eight goals in the Champions League.

Barcelona faces Manchester United in the quarterfinals of the Champions League and prior to the first match, Ferdinand has offered several words of advice for his former team, Periscope follows.

“Barca has a certain game style, which is possession football, and they pressure you when they don't have the ball, so they (united) should be very careful about this”, he said at BT Sport.

But where does it come from in Messia, how will they stop and fight it?

They can't afford to give him space. If they give him room to go back to the gate, he'll cause big problems”, said the former English protector, who has no good moments in his encounter with Mess. /Periscopi/