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#3 Failure to make an impact on big occasions
There is no denying the fact that Messi has rescued Barcelona several times from the jaws of defeat during the course of the season. But, in the business half of the season, when it mattered the most, Lionel Messi has failed big time to bail out the Catalan giants from the jail.
Messi was far from influential in one of Barcelona’s most humiliating European nights at Anfield. The blue-eyed-boy of Barcelona looked pale all the time and lacked confidence whenever he got the ball.
Messi missed a golden opportunity in the first half of the miserable Liverpool return leg to put the tie into bed, which in turn, not only cost Barcelona the game, but also the tie in the end.
Messi has been accused of the same in the past when he somehow managed to bottle it up on several big occasions for Barcelona and Argentina, especially when he missed a huge one v one opening against Manuel Neuer of Germany in the final of 2014 FIFA World Cup.
