Madrid (AFP)

Two months after the trauma of the 8-2 elimination against Bayern Munich in the last edition, FC Barcelona made a successful comeback in the Champions League by outclassing Ferencvaros 5-1 thanks in particular to a brilliant Lionel Messi on Tuesday for the 1st day.

The terrible memory of the rout of Lisbon is buried: thanks to a goal from a penalty that the Argentine captain himself caused (26th), a goal from the right of the young prodigy of 17 years Ansu Fati (42nd), a realization of Philippe Coutinho (52nd), a goal from Pedri (82nd) ​​and a last from Ousmane Dembélé (89th), Barça has resumed colors.

And this despite the red card for Gerard Pique, author of a foul in the box on Tokmac Nguen who led to the penalty of 3-1 converted by Igor Kharatin for the Hungarians of Ferencvaros (67th).

After a summer agitated by his abortive departure, the Pulga (chip, in Spanish), author of only a small goal on penalty in four meetings before the game on Tuesday night, returned to his offensive efficiency and shone again, often found by his teammates in Ferencvaros passive defense.

Three days after his first defeat of the season in La Liga at Getafe (1-0) which condemned the French international striker Antoine Griezmann to a place on the bench on Tuesday, and four days before the first clasico de Liga against Real Madrid On Saturday (14:00 GMT), the team of Ronald Koeman launched their European campaign in an ideal way.

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Faced with a weaker opponent on paper, the Catalans held the ball and offered an effective game by multiplying the combinations of passes on the ground at the entrance of the opposing surface.

Unlike Griezmann, French international Ousmane Dembélé, also targeted by media criticism after his performance last weekend, had playing time at the end of the match, and even offered Pedri an assist. (82nd) ​​before scoring himself on a service from Messi (89th) to close the Catalan festival and silence the critics.

But the reigning Hungarian league winners did not make it easy for the Catalans.

From the start, Tokmac Nguen, found deep, opened the scoring with a superb strike from the re-entering post (10th), but his goal was canceled for an offside position.

Ten minutes later, Isael da Silva's strike hit the upper right corner of Neto's cages.

And before the break (36th), it was the Hungarian goalkeeper Denes Dibusz who prevented the Catalans from driving the point home with a reflex stop on a point blank recovery of Ansu Fati.

Enough to maintain the doubts of the Blaugrana defense, passed through like the whole team in Getafe on Saturday, and which will have to regain its strength for the clasico on Saturday and for the rest of its European campaign.

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