Messi claims that Real Madrid was not the best team in the Champions League.Despite winning their 14th Champions League title, Lionel Messi feels that Real Madrid were not the strongest club in the competition this season... as a PSG star speaks up on adjusting to life following the 'difficult change' of leaving Barcelona
On Saturday, Real Madrid defeated Liverpool to win the Champions League.
In the last 16 of the Champions League, they had a spectacular comeback against PSG.But Lionel Messi isn't convinced Los Blancos were the best team this season. Messi claims he didn't want to leave Barcelona's 'complete happiness.'
Lionel Messi feels Real Madrid was not the best club in the Champions League this season, and that his PSG squad won their round of 16 match.
Los Blancos won their 14th European title as Vinicius Junior scored the game-winning goal in the final against Liverpool in Paris on Saturday night.Carlo Ancelotti's side had already defeated Premier League rivals Manchester City and Chelsea on their way to the final at the Stade de France.Real Madrid were not the best team in the Champions League this season, according to Lionel Messi.
Los Blancos won their 14th European title after defeating Liverpool in the final on Saturday night.
But the most dramatic moment of their run to the final came in the last-16 contest against PSG, when Karim Benzema's astonishing 17-minute hat-trick at the Santiago Bernabeu changed the second leg in Madrid's favor.It was again another season of failure for the French champions in the league, but Messi, 34, told Argentinian television TYC that Madrid were not the greatest team in the championship this season.
'The Real Madrid game was our undoing. Messi stated, 'The best team does not always win.'Without taking anything away from Real Madrid, who are the European champions and are always there or thereabouts, they were not the best team in the Champions League this season.
The spectacular Karim Benzema-inspired comeback against PSG was a highlight of their campaign.'The Champions League is about situations, important moments, psychological moments that define a team, when the smallest mistake may be fatal, and those who are best prepared for those occasions win or make it to the final.'
It was only the latest in a string of disappointments for the Argentina international, who scored just six goals in Ligue 1 after joining from Barcelona in 2021-22.
Following promising first conversations between all parties last summer, Messi was anticipated to re-sign with Barcelona, but LaLiga's financial constraints precluded a deal.Following his departure from Barcelona, the 34-year-old scored just six goals in Ligue 1 in 2021-22.
And Messi has admitted that adjusting to life in France has been difficult for him, confessing that he did not want to leave the 'full enjoyment' of playing for the Catalan giants.
'It was a summer of perfect enjoyment, and I assumed everything would stay the same at Barcelona and in my life,' he continued, 'but then what occurred happened, and it was tough.'
'It was a difficult transition, a challenging year.' It wasn't easy to adapt. At my age, it's difficult to leave a place where I've spent my entire life.'It's one thing to do it when you're younger and want to, but I didn't want to at the moment, and I didn't expect or imagine it.'
Messi refused to leave the 'full happiness' of playing for the Catalan champions.
Another low point in his first season in France came during a match against Bordeaux in March, when he and Neymar were booed by some PSG fans following their Champions League elimination.
Messi claims he understands the fans' anguish, but he's disappointed that his family had to witness his own fans jeering him.'It's also unfamiliar territory for me.' It's a unique circumstance. It had never happened to him in Barcelona, on the contrary,' he explained.
'It's understandable that you're angry. Then I'll decide if I agree or disagree with the fact that Ney and I were the most marked by the whistles. But, you know, that happened.'
'It bothered me that my family was present, and that they heard people whistling at me, and that my children were present.'In March, boos were directed at Messi and Neymar by a part of the PSG fanbase.
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