Messi spoke about the Champions League in his phrases for 'TyC Sports' from the Argentina country wide team's education complex. The Argentine spoke approximately the comeback suffered through PSG, Real Madrid's victory and other issues.
"The first-rate crew don't usually win. Real Madrid, with out taking anything away from them due to the fact they're the Champions League winners and they're constantly there, were no longer the great group in this Champions League and but they beat all of them," explained Messi.
The PSG megastar admitted that "what happened in Madrid", the comeback at the Santiago Bernabeu within the last 16, destroyed them. "Me, the entire dressing room in trendy, the whole of Paris, because we had been so excited about that competition, and the way the fit went, the result changed into a blow," he said.
He additionally pressured that he is aware of "what Real Madrid are". "I've lived it for decades, all my life, from close quarters," he said, before including: "I knew that could appear, due to the fact they rating a goal out of nowhere and mechanically exchange the sport. I also knew that on that pitch the primary 15, 20 minutes they press excessive. And in case you go through that then the game adjustments. But if a abnormal play or a aim occurs it modifications once more and I knew it may show up and it took place to us and to all of the groups you say (Chelsea, City and Liverpool). It's not the primary time it is passed off.
The Champions League is one of the primary objectives of the Argentine, who's " looking forward to winning it again". "I turned into sad not with a view to be there. But it additionally makes me realise that it is now not usually the quality team that win the Champions League, that the Champions League is set situations, specific moments, psychological moments that have an effect on a crew, where the slightest mistake leaves you out and whoever is maximum prepared for those conditions finally ends up winning it or achieving the final," he recounted.
On the whistles he received inside the PSG-Girondins in shape, he responded: "It was also new for me, it is a exceptional state of affairs. It had never befell to me in Barcelona, but quite the opposite. It is understandable the state of affairs of the people and the anger because of the players we had, due to the team we have been and as it occurred again some other 12 months, because it is not the primary time that a scenario like that has came about to the crew, to be out of the Champions League like that, and it's far understandable the anger. Afterwards, whether or not I agree or now not approximately the whistles for me and Ney in particular, we had been the ones who had been most singled out. But nicely, it happened...".
"The fact is that I choose to permit it move, however considering myself, individually and about what this 12 months has been like, I do think about being able to exchange the situation, approximately no longer being left with the feeling of having changed clubs and that it hasn't gone nicely. I know that this year goes to be distinctive, I'm prepared for what's to come, I realize the club, I realize the city, I'm a chunk more snug inside the dressing room, with my teammates and I are aware of it's going to be distinct," he concluded.
