After latest European nightmare, will Messi ever win another Champions League? - Football news
The HinduAs he watched helplessly while his Barcelona side was ripped to shreds by a blistering Bayern Munich in an 8-2 thrashing, Lionel Messi must have been wondering if he will ever win the Champions League again should he remain at the club. Messi has experienced some galling exits from Europe's top competition since he last lifted the trophy in 2015, but not even the disastrous defeats to AS Roma or Liverpool in the last two years could compare to this devastating semifinal loss. In Lisbon, his side was dealt a humiliation on the scale of Brazil's 7-1 defeat to Germany in the 2014 World Cup, or, closer to home, Barca's 4-0 hammering in the 1994 Champions League final by AC Milan which proved the beginning of the end for Johan Cruyff's reign as coach. The Argentine has won Europe's top prize four times, a feat only bettered by Cristiano Ronaldo in the modern era, but that number has begun to feel increasingly small with each failure since Barca's last Champions League triumph. Messi has not hidden his concern about the team recently, giving a sensationally critical post-match interview when Barca surrendered the Spanish title to Real Madrid last month.