Messi and Ronaldo compact will not appear in the Champions League semi-finals this season.
For the first time in 15 years, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, will miss the semi-finals of the Champions League.
Barcelona knocked out on the hand Bayern Munich with a crushing 8-2 defeat in the quarter-finals in Lisbon, Saturday (15/8) WIB.
Previous, Juventus could not continue their work in the Champions League after being eliminated by Olympique Lyon in the last 16 by losing on away goals on aggregate.
With the elimination Azulgrana and Bianconeri, for the first time since the 2004/05 Champions League season, a competition which ended in victory comeback Liverpool in the final above AC Milan, Messi and Ronaldo did not participate in the last four.
It also means that for the first time since the Champions League 2006/07 season, there are no Spanish teams in the semi-finals. Ronaldo reached the semi-finals that year as a player Manchester United.
That year also marked the beginning of a new era of Messi and Ronaldo’s dominance in European and world football.
Messi has collected six Ballon d’Or and Ronaldo five times, with Luka Modric being the only player to win the individual award apart from the two stars since 2008.
Messi has also won four Champions League titles, despite being a star Argentina it hasn’t won the competition since the 2014/15 season.
Meanwhile, Ronaldo has won five Champions League titles: once with Manchester United and four times with Real Madrid.
However, for this season, football lovers cannot watch the action of two players arguing over who is the best in the world right now.
Messi’s former colleague at Barcelona, Arda Turan, recently expressed his opinion that the Argentine star is superior to Ronaldo.
“Messi is present at every moment of football. He can dictate the game in every aspect,” Turan told beIN Sports Turki.
“There is nothing bad to say about Ronaldo, but he is a goalscorer, even if it is very special. Messi does everything in this game. He does things you can’t even imagine. His intelligence, vision, passing are all very different. And , everyone I talked to about this agreed with me. “
“Except for people close to Ronaldo, his team-mates, who said it was Ronaldo because they answered politically. Ronaldo is my friend and not my place to question his quality. But I think Messi is better.”
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