THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED WHEN NEYMAR CHALLENGED MESSI! BARCELONA PSG

Very soon we'll have a chance to watch a bombastic match. The Champions League is back, and moreover, it brings us Barcelona vs PSG. Neymar as always was injured before the most important match and won't play against his former team, which he left with a big scandal. But nothing is known for sure about the second leg yet. It is possible that the Brazilian will be able to meet with his long-time friend Leo Messi, with whom they have netted many goals for Barca. For the first time, Neymar encountered Messi over 10 years ago. God, how time flies! Today we will tell you how the first meetings of Neymar and Messi on the football field were held and how they ended. Did you manage to see these matches live? Write about your experience in the comments below. Well, we proceed to start off. It was the very first time Neymar and Leo Messi crossed their paths on the pitch in 2010. At that time, Lionel was 24, and his shelf of trophies was already filled with one Ballon d'Or and two Champions League cups. Neymar in his turn was only 18 back then. Despite that, he was already called up to the Brazilian national team and was considered one of the main stars with a great future. For Neymar, this game was one of the first for the Celecao. And actually, it didn't end well. Ney spent 77 minutes on the pitch, but couldn't do anything for the team and went to the bench. And whose efforts were the decisive ones? What do you think? Of course, it's Leo Messi. It was he who scored a goal in the last minute of the match and brought his team a victory. However, the meeting didn't really matter for both teams. They just agreed to play a friendly match. Well, if there was a title at stake... However, let's talk about it later. At the club level, Neymar and Messi met only in 2011, when Barcelona reached the final of the Club World Cup. The title of the best club in the world was at stake, and here the battle was supposed to be more interesting. Although, then Messi and Neymar were players of a completely different level. Neymar was worth only 18 million euros, according to Transfermarkt, while Messi was estimated at at least 100 million euros. It was a lot of money back then. At the age of 19, Neymar was almost the main Brazilian star. He was named Neymar Adona, and compilations with his feints and goals gained millions of views on YouTube. Now, let's remember who Leo Messi was at that time. Together with Barcelona, he won all the trophies that he could win. Blaugrana tore up everyone, both in Spain and in Europe. And Pep Guardiola was in charge of all that. Remember Tiki Taka? There were the golden years of these tactics. Young Neymar, for whom all European clubs were already fighting, against Lionel Messi at his best shape. No wonder that everyone wanted to watch this match. The Brazilian himself had great expectations, because he was about to go on the pitch against his own idol. Journalists vied with each other to ask Neymar questions about Messi, and the Brazilian did nothing but give compliments. Leo is the best in the world. What he does is amazing. Messi is number one. Neymar even admitted that in some games he copies Leo and wants to achieve everything that his idol has achieved. After this meeting, I, my teammates and our club can go down in history. But I'm not nervous. I'm calm. I know that a great team will oppose us. I always say that I want to show my game and everything that I'm capable of. In any match and against any team. I will try to demonstrate this in practice and simply score a goal. Claimed Neymar in an interview on the eve of the match. Spoiler alert! The wishes of the Brazilian didn't come true, and the goal was not scored at all. But we'll reveal the intrigue of the final result a bit later. Neymar really didn't want the match to turn into a clash between two players. And in the end, it didn't. The Brazilian also said that a special tactic was developed against Messi in Santos. But it seems that it didn't work out at all. The duel that the entire football world was waiting for didn't seem to have happened. Neymar spent the entire match in the background and has managed to create only two dangerous moments in the game. Maybe he was scared of the imminent rival? We guess the thing was in the Barça itself. The club was performing greatly that year and just destroyed Santos. Neymar himself in this game was remembered more as a kid with a funny mohawk. Give a like to this video if you remember this Neymar's hairstyle. What did Ney do in 90 minutes against Barça? At the beginning of the second half, he managed to jump over Dani Alves on a corner, but the ball blazed over from his header. After another 10 minutes, Neymar caught Javier Mascherano on a mistake, but failed to convert a 1-on-1 run. Well, and this is pretty much it. But Neymar was not alone in his misfires. The whole squad of Santos failed miserably and didn't provide a single goal. You can pause the video and write in the comments below how many goals Barça scored against Santos in the Club World Cup final. So, 3, 2, 1. A crushing defeat of 4-0. Three of these goals were scored in the first half. The first and last of them were scored by Lionel Messi, confirming his high status. Xavi and Cesc Fabregas also slotted the ball each. After the match, Neymar posed with a sad face, clearly being not happy about the crushing score and the silver medal. However, in an interview after the match, he admitted that the defeat was well-deserved. A lesson must be learned from it, and the opponent can only be given respect. Barcelona is naturally a goal-scoring machine. It includes fantastic football players. It was beautiful. We had a lot of problems, but we became the second team in the world. For us, it's like being a winner, said Neymar. Did Messi even mention the young talent from Brazil? In fact, a very little was said. Leo just hinted that he doesn't mind Neymar moving to Catalonia. If he moves to Barcelona, we will all be very happy, Messi said. So, it looks like he totally called it. Indeed, after a year and a half, Neymar and his father chose Barca. It's a pity that Messi and Neymar failed to show a really intriguing fight. Leo was too good, and Ney was too young. The transfer of Neymar to Barcelona happened in the summer of 2013. And then the Blaugranas again played with Santos. But this time, the Brazilian was already on the other side of the barricades. Already next Tuesday, we will be able to look at a new part of the feud between Barca and Paris. And in the second leg, we will finally check out the result of Leo Messi and Neymar battle. Give a like to this video and write in the comments below which club you will support in the games between PSG and Barcelona. We hope the new duel between Leo and Neymar will have a more heated outcome than their first game against each other. The Champions League quarter-finals are soon to come. So, the tie will definitely turn out to be interesting. Moreover, the Parisians are unlikely to have forgotten those 6-1 at the Camp Nou. Subscribe to the channel, because here you are going to get only the best stories ever told. It was Inside Football. We watch football from a different angle. Have a nice one and see you in a bit.