Lionel Messi mentioned the Champions League defeat to Roma during his team talk at half time of Barcelona's 4-0 loss at Anfield.
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Videos of Barcelona's dressing room at half time against Liverpool have come to light and Messi can be seen urging his teammates to avoid a repeat of the previous year's disappointment.
By this point, Divock Origi had put Liverpool 1-0 up, but Ernesto Valverde's side were still leading the semi-final 3-1 on aggregate.
"Come on, guys, let's take a step forward," Messi said, as seen in the club's 'Matchday' documentary on Rakuten TV..
"We can't pass up this opportunity.
"Give it your all, we're there.
"We're going to start [the second half] strong.
"Remember, what happened at Roma was our fault, no one else's.
"Don't let the same thing happen again.
"It was our fault and nothing more."
Of course, it did happen again and Barcelona crashed out after conceding three times in the second 45 minutes.
laehcim
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u know y messi cos u're human so they put their trust in u instead God so they forget human can fail but God can't especially when there's miracle on the wall of ur opponent. YNWA
TheBlue1905
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No matter how many videos or positive posts or sayings in terms of praises or motivations you guys say about Messi, he will never win Champions League again with Barcelona until he retires.
Gringet
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Honestly, I feel sad for him. These are the last years of Messi and all Barça does is dissapoint him. The way things are it's not hard to see things like this happen again.
Benosky1
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After I witnessed the most robbed football match in history Barcelona 6-1 PSG, I was forced to curse Barcelona that they will NEVER see UCL finals in 5 seasons.. Since then, it has been embarrassing defeats, even they thought it was over, they were eliminated... we are heading to the 4 th season, we shall see what happens.. MARK THIS DAY.
ultra_instinctLM10
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That doesn't make sense when you bottle the lead against Liverpool and Roma... Why do you only remember the lost Real Madrid suffered against Ajax ?? Don't you remember we won 4 UCL in 5 years ?? Get yourself a brain, you hater..
me hater???.... u remember 7 outta last 10 ligas won by Barça?? now u r a hater.... and Madrid won 4 out of 6 idiot... and how they won we all know[Crylaugh][Crylaugh]
Benosky1
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That's the difference between Captain Ramos and captain Messi.. When the competition is so intense, he steps up with a header while Messi waits for his teammates to deliver.. That's leadership..Not just to wait for home games to perform and receive praises.. prove yourself outside your home.. Even Maradona cited on it, Messi is not a team leader.. take or it leave it. ATM VS MADRID UCL FINALS..
123mk
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This is why people love Cr7 He never can be like a Cr7 ever
Dodcampns
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Messi: “Remember, what happened at Roma was our fault, no one else's.” Barca fans: “it’s Valverde’s fault, VALVERDE OUT!!”
lobcdikmn
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If Messi plays in some clubs, Messi will win the ballon de or up to ten times. Even the Dutmond match, you can see that barca presently is just a one man club. You can't win tournaments with just one man efforts. After scoring three, Messi stopped his exceptional displaying, and you see what happened? Dutmond started pressuring which is not good for a team of barca standard. Before this era players, barca was having lots of serious and threatening players but now every one waits for Messi which is quite bad. It is a wrong technique in nowadays football. Barca must stop depending on Messi alone to win if not, more disgrace than Liverpool and Roma incidents await barca in champions league soon.
Gabby_Smith
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some one should challenge Barça would win champions league this season cos how can Barça still loss to Liverpool but have the courage to make a video of it this is a sign of boldness. we winning champions league #forcabarca
aziz876
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WTF...😂😂😂😂 Ronaldo would never miss such an important stage for 2consercutive time😂😂😂😂
Biubcekmst
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Bottling signal found:
Pubdempty
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they call him goat, why didn't he score the second leg against liver pool, roma, and leganes