The most optimistic people did not expect that Barcelona would achieve "Remontada" against Paris Saint-Germain and turn their loss in the first leg 1-4 to a landslide victory in Paris, and eliminate the children of the French capital from the eighth of the Champions League final.

However, the start was fiery and surprising for the Parisians after Barça placed them under a suffocating ballistic siege, as Barça fired 15 shots at Navas in the first half, including 9 between the crossbar and the players, and only scored one goal.

At a time when the players of the Catalan team were taking turns wasting the opportunity once awfully and another due to the brilliance of Costa Rican Keylor Navas, the Saint Germain goalkeeper, French defender Clement Ningle made a childish mistake and ran over the foot of Argentine striker Mauro Icardi and gave the opponent a penalty kick despite the fact that the cross of Kurzoa, Saint Germain's back, was heading Directly towards the German Barca goalkeeper Ter Stegen.

📸 - Penalty PSG, Lenglet receives a yellow card.

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This is not the first fatal mistake committed by the French international, as it caused 4 penalties out of 9 scored against Barca this season.

Frenchman Kylian Mbappe scored the penalty and made "Remontada" almost impossible.

Before the penalty kick, another Frenchman, Othman Dembele, was wasting chances achieved one after the other with unparalleled recklessness, and the Spanish newspaper "Marca" considered that if he took advantage of some of the opportunities, he would score a hat-trick - at least - in the first half.

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Commenting on the mistake of his niggler and the recklessness of Dembli, Kuwaiti sports analyst Abdul Karim Al Shamali said, "Barca fans have to get used to losing valuable opportunities from Dembley in important matches, and on lapses to let him boast in crucial times."

In the context, former Egyptian soccer star Wael Gomaa confirmed that "Dembele is one of the reasons for Barca's exit from the Champions League, because he missed 3 goals achieved in the first half."

After several decisive passes for Dembele, Messi decided to take matters into his own hands and hit a surface-to-air missile from about 30 meters, which exploded in the Navas window to restore some hope to the "Blaugrana" fans and revive the dream of "Remontada".

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And before the end of the first half, the dream grew and hopes expanded after English referee Anthony Taylor calculated a penalty kick committed by Corzau against Antoine Griezmann, so Messi came to pay it - and, as usual, he struck the ball in a strong way that Navas and the crossbar were looking for.

It is the first time that Messi failed to score a penalty kick in the Champions League since February 2015. He has scored 8 penalties since that date.

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Barca players missed 6 of the 15 penalty kicks they got this season.

However, whoever knows Messi and has followed him for years, makes sure that despite his skills and tremendous football potential and that he is one of the best players in the history of the game, he does not possess leadership qualities, and he is absent in crucial moments and always wastes penalty kicks in difficult times, and does not possess a personality that enables him to mobilize his team from the setbacks During the match.

The biggest evidence is the famous "Remontada" against Saint Germain, in particular 4 years ago, when the return match was led by the Brazilian star Neymar, and even the penalty kick that was awarded to Barca was left by Messi to Neymar for fear of wasting it.

Messi misses the leadership figure when his team goes through the "Anatolian" stalemate

Returning to yesterday's match, it was clear that the hope for "Remontada" became impossible after Messi wasted the penalty kick, because it was a great moral blow to the Barca players in general and Messi in particular.

Despite their absolute control over the second half, the team's chances and effectiveness, enthusiasm and spirit were absent from Messi, who passed a lot of broken balls, and surrender seemed to infiltrate the team's players near the end of the match, so Barca could not even win.

Regarding the missed penalty, Barcelona coach Ronald Koeman says it is "an important moment, we went 2-1, which would be more difficult for them. Today we wasted a lot of opportunities, but we must shed light on the team's position."

As for Navas, the undisputed goalkeeper and man of the match, he said, "If Barca scored the penalty kick, he would have had a huge boost in the match."

Saint Germain (last year’s runner-up) benefited from its 4-1 victory at the Spanish opponent’s stadium in the first leg last month, winning 5-2 in aggregate for the first-and-second matches and winning the qualifying ticket for the quarter-finals of the tournament he dreams of winning for the first time in its history.