Messi meanwhile became the first player of the modern Champions League era to score 5 goals in a single match.  A helpless Simon Rolfes could only look on as the mercurial Argentina spun his way in and around Leverkusen all game long. 

Records were set and broken in Bayer Leverkusen’s second leg against Barcelona in the Champions League Round of 16.  Robin Dutt’s team suffered Leverkusen’s biggest defeat in their European history, losing 7-1 at the Nou Camp.  

Six years later, Philipp Lahm captains Germany at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa where he came up against World Player of the Year Lionel Messi and Argentina in the quarter finals, Germany running out 4-0 winners.