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#1 Champions League debacle
Barcelona and Messi’s season crumbled after their shocking exit from the Champions League at Anfield. In fact, Messi has himself admitted the fact that both Barcelona and his season on personal terms, has been ruined after the inexplicable defeat.
Despite scoring 12 goals this season in Europe’s elite competition, Messi endured a terrible night at Anfield. The Barcelona captain couldn’t do anything to prevent Liverpool from making an historic comeback.
Messi’s yet another vain attempt to stir Barcelona to the Champions League glory will go down as a huge disappointment for the Catalan faithfuls.
Messi and Co. have been dreadful in the recent past in Europe’s most prestigious competition. With their recent Champions League disaster, Barcelona have now failed in four successive attempts to reach the final, having lifted the Champions League trophy back in 2014-15 season.
From making a pledge at the beginning of the season in his first ever captain’s speech to bring the famous trophy to Camp Nou, to facing the harsh reality of Champions League failure, Messi’s first season as a Barcelona captain will be remembered as an unsuccessful one.
