Paris Saint Germain hired Lionel Messi to win the Champions League. Did PSG seriously sign Messi to get the elusive ‘orejona’? And did they not see the statistics to decipher that is in clear decline and that European competition is no longer its forte?
Everything seems that the owners of PSG They hired Messi for marketingfor being proud to say that they were the ones who stayed with the most emblematic man of the last 15 years of FC Barcelona, but they did not realize that he has been one more in the last editions of the Champions League.
It’s not by chance see him sad, crestfallen and leaving the European Champions League in instances prior to the final. The failure in his first season at PSG was to be expected, as this is his seventh consecutive frustration in the competition.
So is. Messi carries seven failures in a row in Champions and only his immense talent had ‘covered’ the poor performances of him or his respective team in Europe.
Since he was crowned champion in the 2014-2015 season with FC Barcelona, winning the final against Juventus 3-1, Messi he did not know glory again in the Champions.
Until today, Messi sum 2 eliminations in round of 16 (2020-2021 and 2021-2022), 4 frustrations in the quarter round (2015-2016, 2016-2017, 2017-2018, 2019-2020) and 1 in semifinals (2018-2019).
What’s more, in the last three editions, he has only scored 13 goals, a very poor figure, if you take into account that on other occasions he scored more than ten goals per campaign. With PSG this year he scored 5 goals, the same number of goals from his last season with FC Barcelona (2020-2021); while in 2019-20 he only got 3 goals.
Confirmed: the Champions League is leaving Lionel Messi and his rich history behind.
