Star Lionel Messi faces criticism! French newspaper gives him a shameful mark

Lionel Messi didn’t exactly shine twice in the anticipated Champions League match against Real Madrid. Yet he shouldn’t lack motivation, he loved these derbies in Barcelona’s jersey and he often made the decisions.

However, Lionel Messi has been a PSG player for some time now and it’s impossible to say that he would have been magical against Real Madrid. The Parisians finally brought the match to a winning end in injury time (1: 0), but they had worked hard. Kylian Mbappé scored the only goal of the prestigious match with a great individual action.

PSG produced a total of 21 shot attempts during the match, but it was Thibaut Courtois who did the magic in the Real Madrid goal. On the other hand, the White Ballet did not produce a single shot that flew between the three posts of the home team during the entire match.

The Belgian goalkeeper Courtois also converted a penalty from the star Argentine Messi in the second act, which brought down his rating with the French daily L’Equipe.

according to L’Equipe, the 34-year-old star of contemporary football was rated 3. The legendary Messi was basically the second worst player on the pitch. Only Daniel Carvajal (2) got a worse grade. Take a look for yourself.

” Messi had one or two top balls behind the defence, but otherwise he slowed down a lot of action by holding the ball or passing it badly. Not to mention a lousy penalty. I don’t think his criticism will be too hot after the win, but it wasn’t a good performance.”

Messi’s stats

As far as exact stats go, they weren’t that terrible. Anyway, sometimes you can’t judge performance just by numbers. The WhoScored server, which evaluates players’ performances mainly by data, gave the Argentine footballer a nice rating of 7.26.

Lionel Messi had 101 touches with the ball during the match (the third highest number on the pitch), his passing success rate reached 82%, he made 4 key passes and sent 3 centres into the opponent’s penalty area.

Messi also made 5 successful dribbles and was fouled once. He finished 8 times, but only two shots went between the three posts.

WhoScored, French Football, Vibes Foot, L’Equipe