Do Messi deserved to win the 2019 Ballon do'r?

As we all know last year on December, the master left foot, Lionel Messi won the Ballon do'r for the sixth time in his carrier. There is no doubt that he is an extraordinary player but did he really deserve the Ballon do'r this year? My answer is no. Apart from his team-wide triumphs in La Liga, Barcelona failed to live up to expectations over the past year. Argentina also didn't do well in Copa America, going 1-1-1 in group stage while scoring as many as goals as it allowed. Messi and company failed in the semis against the mighty Brasil by 2-0. Messi deserves every bit of credit for his role in shaping up the club team and leading Barcelona to win the league title. But he has failed in National team.

He failed in UCL too. Again in the semis Barcelona lost by an aggregate of 4-3 to the defending champions. While Messi certainly doesn't bear much responsibility for his team's collapse defensively, he's culpable for Barcelona failing to score in Liverpool's stunning 4-0 victory in the second leg.

Virgil Van Dijk was the best player in football last year. His individual numbers pale in comparison to those of Messi, but that's more a byproduct of the player's wildly disparate roles on the pitch then evidence of the latter's superiority. He finished second in Ballon do'r voting beating the great, Cristiano Ronaldo.
I don't think Messi deserved this year's Ballon do'r to be honest. Van Dijk should have achieved it or even Sadio Mane. This Senegal forward was a major key for Liverpool's UCL victory.