BARCELONA: Four years have passed since Lionel Messi last reached a Champions League semi-final and his drought has become a source of unease for Barcelona ahead of their latest attempt on Tuesday. “Last season we did the double but we all felt bad about how it went in the Champions League,” Messi said in August. He has nine La Liga titles and is by a distance the competition’s top scorer, with an astonishing 414 goals. And while Messi dwarfs the Portuguese for goals in La Liga, the opposite is true in Europe, where Ronaldo has 125 goals to his 108. And his teammates feel it too, the weight of history on their shoulders from a need to square arguably the game’s greatest ever player with a Champions League haul that befits that status.

Source: Pakistan Today April 15, 2019 08:37 UTC