Lionel Messi has faced accusations of allowing his level to drop in the wake of Cristiano Ronaldo’s move to Juventus in 2018, but Rivaldo believes two superstar performers will prove that they remain the world’s best when rekindling their rivalry in the Champions League.
The group stage draw for European football’s elite club competition has seen Barcelona placed alongside the Bianconeri.
A global audience is already counting down the days until Messi and Ronaldo lock swords again in the heat of battle.
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Such meetings were commonplace during the Portuguese icon’s record-setting spell at Real Madrid, but El Clasico has lost some of its spark over the last couple of seasons.