"Real Madrid? The best team doesn't always win the Champions League"

Messi spoke about the Champions League in his words for 'TyC Sports' from the Argentina national team's training complex. The Argentine spoke about the comeback suffered by PSG, Real Madrid's victory and other issues.

"The best team don't always win. Real Madrid, without taking anything away from them because they are the Champions League winners and they are always there, were not the best team in this Champions League and yet they beat them all," explained Messi.

The PSG star admitted that "what happened in Madrid", the comeback at the Santiago Bernabeu in the last 16, destroyed them. "Me, the whole dressing room in general, the whole of Paris, because we were so excited about that competition, and the way the match went, the result was a blow," he said.

He also stressed that he knows "what Real Madrid are". "I've lived it for many years, all my life, from close quarters," he said, before adding: "I knew that could happen, because they score a goal out of nowhere and automatically change the game. I also knew that on that pitch the first 15, 20 minutes they press high. And if you go through that then the game changes. But if a strange play or a goal happens it changes again and I knew it could happen and it happened to us and to all the teams you say (Chelsea, City and Liverpool). It's not the first time it's happened.

 

May 30, 2022

The Champions League is one of the main objectives of the Argentine, who is " looking forward to winning it again". "I was sad not to be able to be there. But it also makes me realise that it's not always the best team that win the Champions League, that the Champions League is about situations, specific moments, psychological moments that affect a team, where the slightest mistake leaves you out and whoever is most prepared for those situations ends up winning it or reaching the final," he acknowledged.

On the whistles he received in the PSG-Girondins match, he replied: "It was also new for me, it's a different situation. It had never happened to me in Barcelona, but quite the opposite. It is understandable the situation of the people and the anger because of the players we had, because of the team we were and because it happened again another year, because it is not the first time that a situation like that has happened to the team, to be out of the Champions League like that, and it is understandable the anger. Afterwards, whether I agree or not about the whistles for me and Ney in particular, we were the ones who were most singled out. But well, it happened...".

"The truth is that I prefer to let it go, but thinking about myself, individually and about what this year has been like, I do think about being able to change the situation, about not being left with the feeling of having changed clubs and that it hasn't gone well. I know that this year is going to be different, I'm ready for what's to come, I know the club, I know the city, I'm a bit more comfortable in the dressing room, with my teammates and I know it's going to be different," he concluded.

 

May 30, 2022