A mouth-watering individual showdown awaits in Wednesday's massive Champions League tie between Barcelona and Liverpool
If Lionel Messi is Hercules, Virgil Van Dijk looms as his possible Achilles heel when the two face off in a mouth-watering Champions League semi-final that could decide this year's Ballon d'Or.
For the past five years, every Ballon d'Or winner has played in the European final and 2019 is looming as no exception.
While Messi is rightly a front-runner for the award, if Liverpool centre-back Van Dijk can find a way to silence the Barcelona star across two legs then the Reds defender will have put forward a convincing case for his own claim to the crown.