Today, August 14, marks the 3rd anniversary of Lionel Messi’s heaviest defeat in his career. But La Pulga also received a number of other terrible failures.

The football world is used to remembering the milestones in Lionel Messi’s career. In the Champions League, the Argentine striker broke an unexpected record, on August 14, 2020, in the midst of the pandemic, he suffered the heaviest defeat in his career with Barcelona: losing to Bayern Munich 2- 8 in the quarter-finals of the Champions League. Besides, there are other painful stumbles of Messi, such as Argentina’s 1-6 loss to Bolivia.

Bayern Munich 8-2 ​​Barcelona, ​​the heaviest defeat in Messi’s career

In a historic match on August 14, 2020, Bayern Munich defeated Barcelona 8-2 in the quarter-finals of the Champions League in Lisbon. It was a very strong blow for Messi, who couldn’t do much for his team.

Thomas Muller (2), Ivan Perisic, Serge Gnabry, Joshua Kimmich, Robert Lewandowski and Philippe Coutinho (2) scored for coach Hans Flick’s side, while David Alaba and Luis Suarez gave Barca a consolation.

Messi’s heaviest defeat in Argentina: 1-6 against Bolivia

The star from Rosario has never suffered such a big setback during his career. Before that, the worst happened to the Argentina team in 2009 on the heights of La Paz, Bolivia in the South American World Cup qualifiers. With Diego Maradona as coach, Argentina lost to Bolivia 1-6.

Barcelona was reversed by Liverpool

The second leg of the Champions League semi-final against Liverpool in the 2018/2019 season has gone down in Barcelona’s history with the name “An Anfield disaster”. They did not know how to protect the advantage of winning 3-0 in the first leg and losing 0-4, leading to a painful elimination.

The decisive goal came when full-back Trent Alexander-Arnold took a sly corner and Divock Origi punished Barca’s sleeping defense with 11 minutes remaining.

Defeat against PSG

The fateful night in the Parc des Princes for the MSN trident (Messi-Suarez-Neymar) as they were crushed 4-0 by PSG in the first leg with a brace from Angel Di Maria, a goal from Julian Draxler and another table by Edinson Cavani.

But that defeat was corrected in the second leg, which Barcelona avenged with a 6-1 victory at the Nou Camp with three goals from 88 to 95 minutes.