Lionel Messi equaled Xavi Hernández’s record in the number of starts for Barcelona and the 767th duel in the Catalan big club jersey also garnered two goals.
With a 4: 1 victory over Huesca, he added a 20th and 21st shot in the season and conquered the twenty-goal mark in the Spanish league in the 13th year in a row.
Barcelona won the Spanish league for the fourth time in a row, there are already 17 matches without a defeat and after finishing the 27th round it moved to second place in the table. Madrid is behind the leader Atlétic by four points, Real Madrid jumped by two points. Huesca is the last.
Thirty-three-year-old Messi opened the scoring in the 13th minute and was followed by Antoine Griezmann after twenty minutes. The guests reduced the lead to 3 – 1 when Oscar Mingueza broke through on the right, leaving the entire defense trailing in his wake. Messi then symbolically sealed the score in the 90th minute.
The Argentine national team member came to Barcelona in 2000 at the age of thirteen, making his debut in the Czech Republic four years later. During his engagement, he broke a number of club records. In 2012, he beat Cesar and became the club’s best scorer, now with 661 goals. He is also the player with the largest number of trophies, with Barcelona he collected a total of 34. He also has the most assists (290), hat-tricks (48) and goals in one season (73).
In addition to club records, he is also proud of the title for the best scorer of the Spanish league, he also has six Golden Balls in the collection for the best footballer in the world.
Spanish Football League – Round 27:
FC Barcelona – Huesca 4: 1 (13. a 90. Messi, 35. Griezmann, 53. Mingueza – 45. + 4 Mir z pen.).
Table:
1. | Atletico Madrid | 27 | 19 | 6 | 2 | 50:18 | 63 |
2. | FC Barcelona | 27 | 18 | 5 | 4 | 61:23 | 59 |
3. | Real Madrid | 27 | 17 | 6 | 4 | 46:22 | 57 |
4. | FC Sevilla | 26 | 16 | 3 | 7 | 36:20 | 51 |
5. | Saint Sebastian | 27 | 12 | 9 | 6 | 43:22 | 45 |
6. | Betis Sevilla | 27 | 13 | 3 | 11 | 36:41 | 42 |
7. | Villarreal | 27 | 9 | 13 | 5 | 37:30 | 40 |
8. | Granada | 27 | 10 | 6 | 11 | 33:44 | 36 |
9. | Levante | 27 | 8 | 11 | 8 | 36:35 | 35 |
10. | Bilbao | 27 | 9 | 7 | 11 | 37:31 | 34 |
11. | Vigo | 27 | 8 | 10 | 9 | 34:40 | 34 |
12. | Valencia | 27 | 7 | 9 | 11 | 32:37 | 30 |
13. | Pamplona | 27 | 7 | 8 | 12 | 23:35 | 29 |
14. | Cádiz | 27 | 7 | 8 | 12 | 23:42 | 29 |
15. | Getafe | 27 | 7 | 7 | 13 | 21:32 | 28 |
16. | Valladolid | 27 | 5 | 11 | 11 | 25:37 | 26 |
17. | Elche | 26 | 5 | 9 | 12 | 24:39 | 24 |
18. | Alaves | 27 | 5 | 8 | 14 | 23:43 | 23 |
19. | Eibar | 27 | 4 | 10 | 13 | 21:32 | 22 |
20. | Huesca | 27 | 3 | 11 | 13 | 26:44 | 20 |
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