For the first time since 2004-05, neither Lionel Messi nor Cristiano Ronaldo will see their teams involved in the Champions League quarter-finals.

Messi and Barcelona were eliminated at the last-16 stage by PSG, who drew 1-1 against the Spanish side on Wednesday to seal a 5-2 aggregate triumph.

The day before, Porto stunned Juventus and Ronaldo, advancing after a thrilling extra-time battle in the second leg in Turin.

What happened in 2004-05?
The last time both superstars missed the last eight of the competition, Messi and Barcelona were eliminated by Chelsea in the last 16.

Ronaldo, meanwhile, was with Manchester United at the time, with the Red Devils also going out in the round of 16 against AC Milan.

Overall, Ronaldo has won the Champions League five times, while Messi has won the competition on four occasions – most recently in 2014-15.

Barcelona end 13-year quarter finals streak
In addition to both players ending a long streak of reaching the quarter-finals of the Champions League, Barcelona also saw a long stretch of reaching the last eight come to an end on Wednesday.

With their elimination at the hands of PSG, Barcelona failed to reach the Champions League quarter-finals for the first time since 2006-07, when they were eliminated by Liverpool in the last 16.

The Blaugrana were on a run of 13 consecutive quarter-final appearances, the longest such streak in the competition’s history.

End of an era?
With Messi at age 33 and Ronaldo now 36, there has been plenty of speculation that the era of both players dominating the European scene has ended.

This season's Champions League has seen two players, in particular, emerge as potential successors to the dominating duo.

Kylian Mbappe, whose PSG side defeated Barca, scored four goals over the two-leg tie, breaking Messi's record as the youngest player to reach 25 Champions League goals in the process.

Erling Haaland also scored four goals in Dortmund's last-16 tie against Sevilla, with the 20-year-old phenom becoming the youngest player to reach 20 Champions League goals.

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Juventus signed ronaldo to win the UCL for them but in the last 3 seasons they have not even gotten to the finals yet ronaldo is collecting salary
Ronaldo is a fraud

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MJBOLT:

Juventus signed ronaldo to win the UCL for them but in the last 3 seasons they have not even gotten to the finals yet ronaldo is collecting salary
Ronaldo is a fraud

paulolee:

lolz...always looking for excuses for his man...at least he scored a cracker and perfromed better than ur cr7 dt was running all tru d match n couldn't score a 10 man Porto team..
d best he could do was to assist dt porto freekick into d net..

OJEEMAH:
Penalty was also taken and blocked in 2008 UCL FINAL by CR7......So what's the big deal??

Nbotee:


Atleast he scored before missing d penalty abi and was behind every of Barca attacking moves in the game. Abeg show us CR7 stats from the Porto game. First it was Ajax, and den Lyon and now Porto with Juventus

paulolee:
these guys av tried alot for football and deserve more respect that they are getting bcox dominating for over a decade isn't easy..
both have won 9 UCL cups and are the top scorers in d competition and i still think that one of them can still win d UCL maybe if any of them joins a more serious club like cr7 to.PSG or messi to city...
you can say its d end of an era but I still think dey both have 3-4yrs to play European football bcoz i haven't seen any other player for now dt is ready to chase these aliens off the stage..
even at such age their clubs are still over depending on them and they are still giving opponents n goalkeepers sleepless nites...
lets enjoy them for some time jhare..

MJBOLT:

Juventus signed ronaldo to win the UCL for them but in the last 3 seasons they have not even gotten to the finals yet ronaldo is collecting salary
Ronaldo is a fraud

paulolee:

lolz...always looking for excuses for his man...at least he scored a cracker and perfromed better than ur cr7 dt was running all tru d match n couldn't score a 10 man Porto team..
d best he could do was to assist dt porto freekick into d net..

Kingcalls:


But Ronaldo performance against ajax and lyon floored messi's performance against PSG.... he only shined in one half in 4 halves and still spoilt the one half with a penalty miss ... besides...Ronaldo had always been eliminated on away goals rule...but messi keeps on being disgraced... 5.2 for goodness sake and u talking about his performance....mbappe totally annihilated him and barca over the 2 legs... haba , how can they eliminate u 8.2, 5.2 back to back and u talking about his performance... what performance?? Where was he when they loaded them 4.1... he had a terrible campaign this year to b honest...way below expectations... 5 goals of which 4 whr penalties... so remove the penalties and he wud hv only 1 goal, a consolation...

Kingcalls:


But Ronaldo performance against ajax and lyon floored messi's performance against PSG.... he only shined in one half in 4 halves and still spoilt the one half with a penalty miss ... besides...Ronaldo had always been eliminated on away goals rule...but messi keeps on being disgraced... 5.2 for goodness sake and u talking about his performance....mbappe totally annihilated him and barca over the 2 legs... haba , how can they eliminate u 8.2, 5.2 back to back and u talking about his performance... what performance?? Where was he when they loaded them 4.1... he had a terrible campaign this year to b honest...way below expectations... 5 goals of which 4 whr penalties... so remove the penalties and he wud hv only 1 goal, a consolation...

ThierryJay:
To be candid, Messi and CR7's consistency at the top top level since 2007-2008 has been staggering. Since that time, only Arjen Robben, Lewandoski, and Luis Suarez have had a semblance of top-level consistency for a lengthy time but it's still far from that of Messi and CR7. Prior to Messi - CR7 era, it was an outstanding feat for the best attackers to be in their prime for 6 - 8 years i.e Ronaldo De Lima, Henry, Eto'o, Owen, Raul, Shevchenko etc.

Moving on from the collabo talk up there, currently, Messi is still way ahead of CR7 as a player. The stark difference was laid to bare over the 2 legs of the UCL second round ties for both players.

ThierryJay:


Balderdash. Please compare like with like, what they both delivered at the same time of their matches since Ronaldo went to Juve.

Compare Ronaldo's performance against Ajax with Messi's performance against Man Utd
Compare Ronaldo vs Lyon with Messi vs Napoli
Compare Ronaldo vs 10-man Porto with Messi vs PSG

The superiority of Messi's overall individual performance in the above match-ups is unquestionable, except of course for those who are ignoramuses in football.

Kingcalls:


Lol...lets wait till messi is 36... at 33 ronaldo was banging in triple of what messi banged at 33 and winning the CL... messi is even falling hand, scoring 4 penalties out of 5 of his CL goals this campaign...thats quite unbelievable of the messi I know

Kingcalls:


Ronaldo is 36 for goodness sake...u guys are not considering the age difference...compare their performance when he was messi's age ... besides, he join a Conservative team... have u ever heard that juve scored 5 goals in a match , they havnt done that in many years.. even 4 goals is an uphill task... they are not an attacking side ... despite winning the scudettos consecutively for 9 years...and i don't think they ever had a player in their winning team win serie a top scorer

Kingcalls:


Tot we were talking about when they got eliminated...not when they qualified....if its about qualification performance...Ronaldo's atletico's game flawed every of Messi's qualification games