Grand Paris missed the Champions League final! Mbappe's Ballon d'Or is in thin hopes, and Messi has become the biggest winner

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2024-05-08 09:54Published in Henan

In the second leg of the Champions League semi-finals that ended in the early hours of this morning, Paris Saint-Germain, who was playing at home, failed to stage a comeback against the wind, and the goal frame of the Parc des Princes Stadium blocked the goals that the home team was aiming to win four times, and in the end, Grand Paris lost to Dort again with a score of 0-1, and was eliminated with an aggregate score of 0-2.

After the game, Mbappe could not hide his disappointment, but at the same time showed his responsibility, saying: "When things go well, I will be in the spotlight, but when things are not going well, I will also be in the spotlight. There's no problem with that. The first person who should have scored today was me, but whether it's me or our whole team, we have to pick ourselves up. ”

Mbappe will leave Paris to join Real Madrid this summer, and this game will be his last Champions League game for Paris, and not being able to bring a Champions League trophy to Paris will be a big regret of his career. And with the Champions League out, the likelihood of Mbappe winning this year's Ballon d'Or is also decreasing.

In the latest edition of the Ballon d'Or odds rankings, Mbappe was originally ranked first, but now after the Champions League is out, Mbappe has only one way left to win the Ballon d'Or, that is, to lead the French team to win the European Cup, and he must play an MVP-level performance, but as we all know, the chances of continental competitions are greater than those of the Champions League, the error tolerance rate is extremely low, and the luck component is also greater, so Mbappe wants to do these two things, the difficulty can be imagined.

And tomorrow night, one side between Real Madrid and Bayern will also be eliminated, which means that one of the other two Ballon d'Or favorites Bellingham and Harry Kane will miss the final, and the side that is out of the competition will basically withdraw from the Ballon d'Or race early. The winning side can only have a greater certainty of winning the Golden Ball if the Champions League is finally won and England wins the European Cup.

In this way, the biggest beneficiary is undoubtedly Messi. On the one hand, with the exit of Grand Paris, the embarrassment of winning the Champions League as soon as Messi leaves the team has been avoided. On the other hand, in the latest odds list, Messi is in fifth place, while Mbappe, Bellingham and Kane's current advantages are not obvious enough, but if the Champions League and the European Cup cannot be won at the same time, they are not confident enough to overpower Messi.

And Messi currently has two major advantages, one is the Copa America, the strength advantage of the Argentine team is obvious, and it is playing in the United States this semi-home field, the Copa America championship on other players may not be enough to affect the key to the ownership of the Golden Ball, but on Messi, that is another matter.

Another is Messi's dominating performance in the MLS, although the competitive level of the MLS is well known, but it can't help the "football filter" of public opinion, especially the strong ability of American public opinion to build momentum, as well as the strong discourse power of the United States in the world sports arena.

Therefore, once Messi leads Inter Miami and Argentina to win the MLS and Copa America respectively, and Bellingham or Kane cannot lead Real Madrid/Bayern and England to win both the Champions League and the European Championship, then Messi has a great possibility of counterattacking like in 2021 and winning the 9th Ballon d'Or of his career.

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