Lionel Messi explained his wild celebration after scoring a wonder goal for Barcelona in victory over Bayern Munich.

Messi was superb in the 3-0 Champions League semifinal first-leg win.

My celebration came because I was delighted about what that goal meant in terms of the match and the tie" he said.

"We've had matches before where we simply couldn't score despite our chances … So I celebrated like that because we'd managed to open the scoring, which was vital for the tie. Happily we then we even managed to score two more! It's true that we've now got a good result here to take to Germany. Nevertheless we know it will be difficult in Munich, and Bayern have been performing very strongly there.

"Three-nil is a good result, but we still have to go to the second leg and believe in ourselves."