Barcelona are still in a state of shock after their earth-shattering defeat to Bayern Munich on Friday.
The Blaugrana had long been tipped to crash out at the quarter-final stage, but nobody expected them to bow out against the Bavarians in such historic fashion.
Strikes from Ivan Perisic, Serge Gnabry, Joshua Kimmich and Robert Lewandowski as well as braces courtesy of Thomas Muller and Philippe Coutinho saw Bayern run away 8-2 victors.
More Barcelona heartbreak
Astonishingly, Barca had actually drawn level after just seven minutes thanks to a David Alaba own goal, while Luis Suarez briefly threatened to spark a comeback by making it 4-2 after the break.
Ultimately, though, those two strikes turned out to be nothing more than consolations and a truly horrendous night in Lisbon spelt more Champions League heartbreak for the ill-fated Catalans.
The 8-2 annihilation arrived just one season after Barca bottled a 3-0 lead against Liverpool and merely two seasons after surrendering a 4-1 advantage over AS Roma.
Tough night for Messi
It's a dire, systemic streak of failures that has cast doubts over Lionel Messi's future at the club, which was already being discussed ahead of the Bayern meltdown.
Spanish publication COPE have reported on multiple occasions that Messi is eyeing a departure when his contract expires in 2021 - and this week's events will hardly change his mind.
But to what extent was the Bayern result his fault? Well, obviously, you can only point too much of a finger at the Argentine when it was Barca's midfield and defence who committed most of the crimes against football.
Messi's individual highlights
That being said, Messi isn't completely free of blame and many football fans highlighted his trademark walking around the pitch as well as losing possession for Bayern's fifth goal.
To understand the true nature of Messi's performance, however, we have to turn to his individual highlights on the night and YouTuber 'Succeed Goal' has conveniently stitched them together.
You can check them out down below to see why Messi's display was, in more ways than one, heartbreaking to witness.
GIVEMESPORT's Kobe Tong says
It's a tale of two halves, isn't it?
Those early clips really show the Messi we know and love, marauding forward with such a deft gait that he wouldn't make footprints if he was playing on snow.
Besides, he even created some killer chances while the game was still competitive and that's reason number one why I'm branding his highlights as 'heartbreaking'.
It is, after all, hardly the first time that we've seen Messi pulling the strings in a big European game where his teammates can't seem to match his same level of incisiveness and penetration.
The other reason I think that word is apt? Well, it's because things went downhill fast for Messi when the game started to escape Barca and simply put, he started playing like a shell of his great shelf.
You can't claim to enjoy football and not feel any sort of sadness at Messi struggling to maintain possession whenever Bayern midfielders start closing in.
And perhaps that's the sad fact we can take from this - a glimpse into the reality that the era of Messi is slowly coming to a close.
I don't think for a minute that one, freak capitulation is some sort of bookend to Messi's brilliance, rather that, in the end, every d̶o̶g GOAT has its day.