The man from Rosario faces the first FIFA date of the year with the opportunity to reach two new milestones in his impressive career.
Lionel Messi He is one of the players called to occupy one of the places in the Olympus of football history, together with men like Diego Armando Maradona, Pelé or Zinedine Zidane once he retires.
On June 30, 2020, against Atlético de Madrid, Leo screamed finally the 700th goal in his professional career, between his steps through Barcelona and the Argentina national team. And less than three years later, the Flea is very close to a hundred: with the goal he scored against Nantes in Ligue 1 on March 4, 2023, he was one of 800 for his career. A figure that could be reached by none other than with the Argentina national team, in the friendly matches they will play against Panama and Curaçao on the first FIFA date of the year.
The man from Rosario scored his first official goal on May 1, 2005 against Albacete in a LaLiga match with Barcelona and until he left Spain he scored 474 goals in 520 league appearances to become the league’s all-time top goalscorer.
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With Argentina, meanwhile, Messi has 98 goals and is his country’s all-time top goalscorer. His first goal came on 1 March 2006 in a friendly against Croatia, while the most recent came against France in the 2022 World Cup final in Qatar in which he scored a double and won his long-awaited cup. He joins the exclusive group of football players who reach the hundred goals at the level of the national team, which so far has only two members: the Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo and the Iranian Ali Daei.
The ex-Barca striker has faced 40 different opponents in LaLiga and scored at least one goal against 38 of them. The only ones he played against and couldn’t score were Xerez and Real Murcia. And only Xerez has faced each other more than once (two games) without scoring. La Pulga scored in ten consecutive games between December 2012 and January 2013 (16 goals in total), their all-time record in all competitions.
Messi has scored three or more goals in 55 games. His record for goals in the same match was set in the Champions League by scoring 5 goals against Bayer Leverkusen in March 2012.
Contents
1. Goals with Barcelona
2. Goals with Argentina
2. Goals with PSG
3. Total number of targets
than in GOAL we take a close look at their stats:
*Last update: March 11, 2023, post Brest vs. psg.
GOALS WITH BARCELONA
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Average: 0.86 goals per game.
OBJECTIVES WITH ARGENTINA
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Average: 0.55 goals per match.
OBJECTIVES WITH PSG
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Average: 0.45 goals per game.
OBJECTIVES IN TOTAL OF MESSI
Source: Goal