Kolkata: For the first time in 15 years, Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi will not be a part of the Champions League semifinal. While Messi’s Barcelona were knocked out of the tournament on Friday night as they suffered a humiliating 2-8 defeat at the hands of Bayern Munich in the quarters, Juventus were eliminated by Lyon last week.
These two results mean that this will be the first time since 2004-05, a competition where Liverpool were crowned champions after a thrilling finale against AC Milan — neither Messi nor Ronaldo will be part of the last four.
Barcelona’s loss also meant that for the first time since 2006-07 season there will be no Spanish team in the semis. Ronaldo played in the semifinals that year as a Manchester United player but eventually lost out to the champions AC Milan in the last-four tie.
This year could be just a fluke, or it could just be the beginning of the end of an era, which witnessed two legends of the modern game establish their superiority in top-level European club football. Just for the record again, Lionel Messi has six Ballon d’Or whereas Ronaldo has five. A total of 11 between them.
It’s really hard to see that none of them are achieving anything big at their current clubs… It’s not at all their fault if the clubs doesn’t help them.. Football is a team game..U can’t play like a One Man Army Team for a long time…Just like it happened with Cristiano’s Juve and Messi’s Barca..Both the clubs needs to change their mentality if they want to achieve something big..I live and breathe FC Barcelona..And I can feel for the club..Our current situation is not at all good.. My God, My King, My Idol(Lionel Messi) needs help..He is also a human..FC Barcelona don’t have players like Xavi, Iniesta anymore..We need many changes
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