Lionel Messi best UCL performance? When Barcelona legend tore Bayern apart in 2009

How does one sum up Lionel Messi?

In truth, we’ve probably run out of superlatives to describe the Argentine maestro who has, quite simply, changed the face of football forever.

Alongside eternal rival Cristiano Ronaldo, Messi has driven the game to stratospheric new heights, breaking just about every record there is to break.

In the colours of his beloved Barcelona, Messi built a one-man dynasty that may never be toppled, bagging himself an astonishing seven Ballon d’Or titles.

He would score an astonishing 670 goals in 776 games for the Blaugrana, while also bagging a further 302 assists.

Things haven’t exactly gone according to plan since he swapped Catalonia for Paris but, with a new season beckoning, Messi looks set to rewrite his Parisian adventure.

PSG will certainly be hoping for some massive individual performances from Messi as they desperately fight to finally end their painful European hoodoo.

Based on previous evidence, it certainly seems as though they have the right man for the job as well, with Messi responsible for easily some of the greatest individual performances on the European stage.

But which one is his best? Well, recent footage that has been doing the round on Twitter suggests that Messi single-handedly ripping Bayern Munich to shreds in 2009 is a strong contender.

Messi was simply playing on another planet at the Camp Nou as he ran riot among the hapless Bayern defenders.

It was Messi who opened the scoring, sliding the ball into the net with an absurd surety as the Barca machine began to rev up.

He was then in the thick of the action yet again as he beautifully set-up Samuel Eto’o to double the lead before helping himself to yet another goal of his own in the 38th minute.

It was nothing short