The Champions League draw has plunged French club Paris Saint-Germain into risky football tests.
The Parisian team will play in Group H with Italian Juventus, Portuguese Benfica, and Maccabi Haifa.
This draw carries some football nightmares that are renewed in front of the Argentine star, Lionel Messi, in his second season with the French team.
(Leo) played against Benfica only twice, he won once and tied the other, and was unable to find the net in the group stage competitions for the 2012/2013 season.
Messi ended the European journey this season with a footballing nightmare, losing in the semi-final back and forth against Bayern Munich (7-0) in the two matches total.
While Lionel Messi’s record against Juventus remains balanced, in 7 matches he has won with Barca 3 times, compared to two draws and two losses, and scored 3 goals.
With the exception of defeating Juventus (3-1) in 2015 final and winning the Ears Cup for the last time in the Catalan team’s shirt, Leo experienced other difficult moments against the old lady.
In the following season 2017/2018, Messi broke the knot and netted veteran Gianluigi Buffon for the first time with two goals in Barca’s three-way win in the group stage.
However, the Catalan team did not complete the journey, and came out of the playoffs with an exciting scenario against Rome after winning the first leg (4-1) at Camp Nou, and losing again three without a response at the Olympics.
In his last season with Barcelona, Messi won his first and last victory in the Juventus stronghold in the group stage.
But in the return match between the two teams at the Camp Nou, Leo lost in a direct confrontation against his arch-rival, Cristiano Ronaldo, with three goals without a response.
This loss was not normal, but it lost Barcelona the top of Group G, to go to a more difficult path in the round of 16, where it bid farewell to its current team, Paris Saint-Germain, after a loss (1-4) at the Camp Nou, and a draw (1-1) in the Princes’ Garden.
