FC Nantes vs PSG. The strongest teams in French Ligue 1 among themselves – and the 800th game for Lionel Messi (34), you can’t ask for much more in France at the moment.
At the Stade de la Beaujoire in Nantes, the spectators saw the PSG superstar’s anniversary game late on Saturday evening – and a thrilling game. surprise included. In the end it was 3:1 (3:0) for FC Nantes, who made a giant leap in the table.
On the Messi anniversary: Nantes ends PSG series
“Les Canaries” jumped from 10 to 5, ending the streak of Paris St-Germain, who were the only undefeated Ligue 1 team in calendar year 2022.
Paris conceded at least 2 goals in the first 20 minutes of a Ligue 1 game for only the 3rd time since the investor group from Qatar got involved in 2011. Previously, this had only happened in May 2012 against Valenciennes (4: 3) and again in May 2020 against AS Monaco (3: 3).
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Teammate Neymar stole the show from Lionel Messi in the anniversary game. The Brazilian miserably missed a penalty in the 59th minute and failed to heat the kettle up even more at La Beaujoire. “That was the key scene,” DAZN France expert Alexis Menuge was sure. And he was right. Strong detail: FCN keeper Alban Lafont (23) parried the 3rd of the last 4 penalties against Neymar in Ligue 1.
For Lionel Messi, his 800th club game as a professional footballer ended in disappointment.
800 games – The Messi saga in numbers
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Messi plowed on, but he didn’t want to score the 680th goal in the 800th game - ·
But: The brilliant Argentinian provided his 274th goal assist for the anniversary, to Neymar’s 3-1 goal - ·
Lionel Messi’s incredible success story began on October 16, 2004 in the service of FC Barcelona – with an 8-minute brief appearance in the city derby at Espanyol (1-0) - ·
Messi played 778 competitive games for “Barca” until his departure in summer 2021 - ·
Of these games, the half-forward made 520 in La Liga alone, with 474 goals he is of course also their record scorer - ·
Only in the treble year 2014/2015 did Messi play all 38 league games at Barcelona – he scored 43 goals this season, Messi has never been more - ·
He played the fewest games in the Spanish league in his debut season 2004/2005 (7)
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If you add Argentina’s 158 caps, Lionel Messi has played 958 professional games for club and national team
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