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Barcelona easily beats Ferencváros 5-1 in Champions League BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Barcelona began erasing some of the bad memories from last season’s embarrassing Champions League elimination with a comfortable opening group win against Hungarian club Ferencváros on Tuesday. Lionel Messi opened the scoring and two teenage teammates also chipped in to lead Barcelona to a 5-1 victory in its first Champions League match since the 8-2 loss to Bayern Munich in the quarterfinals last season. After Messi, Ansu Fati, Philippe Coutinho, Pedri and Ousmane Dembélé scored to give Barcelona the opening win in Group G. Ihor Kharatin scored Ferencváros’ lone goal from a penalty that led to a straight red card to Barcelona defender Gerard Piqué with about 20 minutes left. In the other group match, Juventus won 2-0 at Dynamo Kyiv with a pair of goals by striker Álvaro Morata. Barcelona, trying to win its first Champions League title since 2015, was trounced by Bayern in August during last season’s qua