Lionel Messi has hailed Fraser Forster's performance for Celtic against Barcelona in 2012 as one of the best he's ever seen, revealing that the club even considered signing him.
Lionel Messi admits Barcelona talked about signing Fraser Forster after declaring he was ‘not human’ following a 2-1 defeat to Celtic in 2012. Forster, 36, currently plays for Tottenham in the Premier League as a back-up goalkeeper to Guglielmo Vicario. The Englishman caught Messi’s attention in the 2012-13 season, when Celtic produced a stunning Champions League win over the Catalan club.
The Scottish side secured the victory despite Barcelona having 89 per cent of the possession and 23 attempts on goal, when Messi was at his peak. Forster was very much the star of the show at Parkhead – conjuring up 13 saves – with Messi left blown away by his performance in Glasgow. ‘The performance of Fraser Forster against us was talked about for a long time,’ Messi said about the match. ‘There was one game in Scotland when he was not human, it was the best goalkeeping performance I have seen. Fraser Forster remarkably made 13 saves during the match. ‘When Victor Valdes said that he was leaving Barcelona we even talked about him playing here.’ Forster responded to Messi’s comments in October 2023 be telling Spursplay: ‘It’s nice, isn’t it? ‘It’s impossible to put into words. We’d played them away, I think, two weeks earlier and we lost 2-1 in the last minute and I’d made saves. ‘But the performance we’d put in away from home really carried us into the home one because we knew we’d have the fans with us. ‘But yeah, it was just one of those nights where everything, you know. You make a couple of saves early and you’re like, come on, bring it o
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