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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wolverine GTR" data-source="post: 24130038" data-attributes="member: 158020">Barcelona 3 Levante 0 (4-2 agg):  Dembele at the double as Barca advance  <img src="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2019/01/17/22/1547764796651_lc_galleryImage_Barcelona_s_French_forwar.JPG" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />     Ousmane Dembele's brace and a second-half goal from Lionel Messi ensured  Barcelona beat Levante 3-0 at Camp Nou, as they comfortably overturned  a first-leg deficit to progress to the Copa del Rey quarter-finals.   Trailing 2-1 in the tie, Ernesto Valverde handed a start to Messi and he  played a part in both of Dembele's goals before making sure of the aggregate  victory by finding the net himself just after the break.    However, Levante president Quico Catalan had already said his club will  challenge Barcelona's progression, with reports in Spain suggesting the LaLiga  champions fielded an ineligible player in the previous meeting.  Defender Chumi featured in that game, even though he had been due to  serve a suspension after picking up five bookings in the Segunda Division B, and  Catalan told reporters prior to kick-off on Thursday that Levante would lodge an  official complaint to the Royal Spanish Football Federation.   The selection of Messi, who did not feature in the first leg, was an  indication of Barcelona's intent to progress, and the Argentinian twice came  close to scoring in the opening 25 minutes, with goalkeeper Aitor Fernandez  parrying away a free-kick before diverting another try wide with his foot.Yet  Barca soon went ahead on aggregate as Dembele benefitted from two moments of  good fortune to score twice in as many minutes.   First, the ball looped up off the Frenchman and went in following Erick  Cabaco's desperate slide tackle, before Dembele's weak finish from a tight angle  was helped in by Fernandez's foot to make it 2-0.Messi was then played in by  Dembele only to see his effort from point-blank range denied by Fernandez, the  keeper then thwarting Philippe Coutinho and Messi again before the break.   Barca's aggregate lead was only a solitary goal until Messi finally got on  the scoresheet nine minutes into the second half.Dembele was involved as he  threaded a superb pass through to Nelson Semedo, who squared the ball for Messi  to slot past Fernandez for the home side's third.   A hat-trick eluded Dembele, though, as he fired just wide late on, while the  woodwork denied Emmanuel Boateng scoring for Levante in stoppage time.</blockquote>

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