One of the biggest examples of Messi being underrated, or perhaps normalizing the impossible so much that it didn't become as impressive from him, is him finishing 5th in the 2018 Ballon d'Or, a disgrace as I will show shortly. Without further ado, let's look at what Messi did in 2018.
First comes the 2018 World Cup, which I already talked about earlier. In summary, he deserved to be in the ToTT (if Ronaldo deserved it so did Messi) and overall did a great performance.
In the 2017/18 UCL knockout stages, he generated all 4 goals against Chelsea in the Round of 16, and after being MoTM in the first leg against Roma, the team crumbled in the second leg and got eliminated. Despite that, Messi was still Barcelona's best player and overall probably the 5th best player in the game (better than half of Roma's team). He was also the best player in the tournament until Barcelona got kicked out.
In La Liga, he was both the champion and the best player by quite a distance. He also won the Golden Boot. Some minor achievements include being the MoTM in the Copa del Rey final (and paving Barcelona's way into that final) and being the MoTM in the Supercopa de España against Sevilla as well, assisting Dembélé's winning goal.
To get a better picture of just how dominant Messi was, let's take a look at this:
As we can see, Messi made a lot of achievements in 2018, but even then, he only got 5th in the Ballon d'Or and The Best, probably the biggest injustice in its history.
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