Lionel Messi comments see Glenn Hoddle TROLLED… why has he said THIS about Barcelona star?

The ex-Blues boss was commentating for BT Sport on the 3-0 defeat at the Nou Camp on Wednesday night.

Lionel Messi scored twice in the win and his performance had Hoddle purring.

He delivered a string of superlatives every time Messi touched the ball and even praised him for giving the ball away at one point.

Then, when he was tackled by N’Golo Kante, Hoddle gushed: “Kante is the Messi of winning the ball back.”

The comments left viewers bemused and they took to Twitter to mock him.

One wrote: “*Messi farts* Glen Hoddle: Wow! that was world class we really are in the presence of a genius. I’m gonna tell my grandkids about that. #BarcaChelsea.”

Another joked: “Glenn Hoddle is minutes away from asking Messi to marry him.”

While a fellow fan added: “Think Glen Hoddle has a thing for Messi.”

Another, who picked up Hoddle’s bizarre comments about Kante, wrote: “Glenn Hoddle – “Kante is the Messi of winning the ball back” – wtf? #barche.”

A fellow viewer said: “Glen hoddle has done nothing but licked messi’s **** all night, messi gives the ball away and he says “even when he gives the ball away he does it with elegance””

Messi was quick to praise his team-mates despite having a decisive say in Barcelona’s Champions League elimination of Chelsea.

The Argentina playmaker now has 100 Champions League goals and 602 in his career, with the statistics conveying, to some extent, his ability.

Chelsea head coach Antonio Conte said Messi was the difference, a once in 50 years player punishing errors from his players.

But the 30-year-old insisted it was a collective success.

“It was a really tough game. But we played strong as a team,” Messi said on fcbarcelona.com.

“Scoring so early meant we could control the game, but we didn’t feel we had sentenced the tie until we got our third goal.

“Until then, we had to fight hard and suffer to achieve a very important qualification for the team.”

Andres Iniesta returned from a hamstring injury to start for Barcelona but the 33-year-old could leave the Nou Camp at the end of the season.

Whether he stays or departs, Iniesta warned Barca must be at their best for him to win a fifth Champions League title.

He said: “The Champions League is complicated, a bad day leaves you out. We have a team and we want to play.”

Iniesta wishes to avoid a domestic rival in the last eight, with Sevilla and Real Madrid also in Friday’s draw.

“I do not want a Spanish team, because we know each other too much,” he added.