Claudio Bravo Returns To Barcelona. Hilarity Ensues

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Remember when Pep Guardiola decided to bin off Joe Hart because he wasn't any good with his feet and instead brought in Claudio Bravo from Barcelona to be his first choice goalkeeper? Well it turns out, the Chilean stopper isn't much better with his feet, either, as his return to the Camp Nou proved.

After being left sprawling at Lionel Messi's feet as the Argentine scored the first of his hat-trick of goals, Bravo then came needlessly careering out of his area in the second half and foolishly attempted a short pass out of defence. The only problem was, his supposedly superior distribution only found Luis Suarez, six yards in front of him. Panicking, Bravo then halted Suarez's goalbound effort with his hands a good 10 yards outside of his 18 yard box and was promptly dismissed, with Willy Caballero replacing him.

Very quickly, Twitter went into meltdown:

Topics: Manchester City, Football, Barcelona, Champions League

Joe Baiamonte

Northerner. Assistant Editor of SPORTbible. Studied Journalism and Broadcasting in a portakabin on a car park of Salford University for three years. Believes football peaked with Serie A in the '90s and strong-arms pro wrestling references into as many articles as possible. Neymar once took 50 euros off me during a game of poker.

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