What happened in the last confrontation between Messi and Ronaldo?

More than two years have passed since the last confrontation between Lionel Messi, the Barcelona player, Cristiano Ronaldo, a former Real Madrid player, and the current Juventus, after the Portuguese left for the Italian League.

With the departure of Ronaldo from Real Madrid after the end of the 17/18 season with Juventus, the “Clásico de la Tierra” match between Real Madrid and Barcelona lost some of its enthusiasm and elegance, and why not what dupla offered face to face would not be true.

Immediately after the Champions League group stage draw was announced, which revealed the presence of Barcelona and Juventus in Group G, along with the Hungarians Frenkvaros and Dynamo Kiev, everyone was waiting impatiently for the meeting between Ronaldo and Messi again to restore the “madness” of the Classic.

According to the tournament regulations, each team meets with all the teams in the group twice (round trip), which means that Barcelona and Juventus will combine them with two games, but fate had one more word and Ronaldo did not participate in the second-round match that brought the two teams together at Allianz Stadium after catching a virus. Corona during his stay with the Portuguese team during the international sanction period, and it was not possible to catch him in the match that the Catalan team decided in his favor with two unanswered goals.

Tonight, Juventus will be invited to Barcelona at the Camp Nou, to play the sixth and last day of group competitions, and although the two teams have decided to qualify for the round of 16, where the blaugrana leads the table with 15 points, followed by Juventus with 13 points, but the game was well received. A fan of the duo.

Do you remember the last game between Messi and Ronaldo?

In the Champions League

In the 2010/2011 UEFA Champions League season the two teams met in the semi-final match. Barcelona was invited by Real Madrid in the first leg, which was decided by the Catalan team with two unanswered goals, and in the second leg that was played at the Camp Nou stadium, it ended in a positive draw with each of them.

Barcelona was then under the command of Pep Guardiola, while José Mourinho was Real Madrid’s coach, and on April 27, 2011 the duo (Messi-Ronaldo) participated in the first game that witnessed dramatic events, the most outstanding of which was the expulsion of Pinto, the Catalan goalkeeper at half time. The first, Real Madrid defender Pepe was also sent off in the 61st minute of the game.

Messi scored the two goals of Barcelona’s victory in minutes 76 and 87, to facilitate the task of his team’s return to the Camp Nou, which was played on May 3, 2011, and ended in a draw with a goal for each team without signing for Leo or Cristiano, so the Catalans qualified for the final of the tournament and decided the title in their favor by beating Manchester United in the final match, 3-1.

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The last Classic match between Barcelona and Real Madrid was played on May 6, 2018 (more than two years) on the 36th day of the La Liga championship.

Real Madrid was in that period under the leadership of its French coach Zinedine Zidane, while Ernesto Valverde was Barcelona’s coach, and the match ended in a positive draw with two goals for each team, after Luis Suárez opened the goals of the match in minute ten for Barcelona, ​​then Cristiano scored the equalizer at four minutes. The first half of the match ended in a 1-1 draw.

In the second half, Messi scored Barcelona’s second goal in the 52nd minute, before Gareth Bale equalized in the 72nd minute and the match ended 2-2.

The events of the match did not pass normally, before the end of the first game, Sergi Roberto was sent off after a violent intervention on Marcelo, Merengue’s left back, and at the beginning of the second half Ronaldo suffered a leg injury to get injured and Marcos Asenso replaced him.

In total, the duo faced each other in 32 matches (including Ronaldo’s matches with Manchester United), with Ronaldo winning 8 of them against 15 in favor of Messi and resolving 9 matches.