Ronaldo – Messi bid farewell to the C1 Cup: Tragedy in the late afternoon, is it over?

Once again, football fans around the world must see Messi and Ronaldo eliminated from the Champions League.

Main developments of the match MU – Atletico Madrid (FPT):

Ronaldo and Messi once shocked world football when they moved to a new team in the transfer window last summer. Ronaldo left Juventus to return to MU after 12 years away, while Messi joined PSG after 21 years with Barcelona. The common point is that both have not hidden their ambition to win the Champions League again.

2nd year in a row Messi – Ronaldo stopped in the 1/8 round of the Champions League

Technically, Ronaldo and Messi are both still at the top level but neither of them is at the top anymore. On March 10, Messi almost disappeared in the match PSG lost 1-3 against Real Madrid. Just a week later, Ronaldo was also silent when MU lost 0-1 to Atletico Madrid at home Old Trafford and couldn’t even hit a shot.

Gone are the days when these two “monsters” dominated European football. This is the second consecutive season that both Ronaldo and Messi cannot make it to the quarter-finals of the Champions League, which has not happened during the previous 15 years.

The tragedy of the late afternoon

PSG recruited Messi not to reclaim the Ligue 1 title from Lille but to conquer the prestigious Champions League. The Argentine superstar himself understands that. However, the dream with PSG fans soon ended right in the 1/8 round.

Messi was booed by PSG fans

Not surprisingly, Messi became the “scapegoat” for PSG’s defeat in the Cup C1. On March 14, in the PSG match against Bordeaux, every time the Argentine superstar touched the ball, boos rang out across the stands of the Park of the Princes.

However, Messi’s situation is now better than Ronaldo’s because PSG is almost certain to win Ligue 1 this season and still attend the Champions League next season. If he continues to stay at the Park of the Princes, the Argentine superstar will have the opportunity to improve his performance at the most prestigious playground in the old continent at club level.

Meanwhile, Ronaldo is about to spend the first season empty-handed in 12 years. Even the Portuguese superstar with MU is struggling in the race for the top 4 in the Premier League. It’s hard to imagine the greatest striker in Champions League history having to compete in the Europa League. During recent times, many sources have rumored that CR7 will leave MU if the “Red Devils” fail to win a place in the Champions League next season.

Ronaldo even risks being a spectator at next season’s Champions League

But even when leaving MU, it is difficult for Ronaldo to find a potential destination to help him realize his ambition to win the Champions League for the 6th time in his career. It is unlikely that Real Madrid, Man City, Bayern Munich or Liverpool will recruit a 37-year-old striker. Instead, they will choose younger strikers like Kylian Mbappe or Erling Haaland.

Ronaldo and Messi have alternately dominated European football for more than a decade and created a pair of “rivals” that are considered the greatest of all time. Even the most pessimistic fans never thought that one day the superstar duo would fall into the current dilemma.