
Messi equals Altafini.Messi’s 14 Champions League goals has equaled José Altafini’s goalscoring record in the competition set in the 1962/63 season. 49 years had to pass for someone to equal the AC Milan striker’s accomplishment. Messi is the first player to have scored 14 goals since the competition was renamed the Champions League. These 14 goals were scored against: BATE Borisov (2), Viktoria Plzen (3), AC Milan (3) and Bayer Leverkusen (5). His performance in the return leg of the quarter-finals, against the Germans, was especially stellar after netting a five-goal haul.
It’s worth noting that Messi was the highest scorer of the competition in the last three editions of the Champions League: 9 goals in the 2008/09 season, 8 goals in the 2009/10 season and 12 in the 2010/11 season.
Messi leads Ronaldo in the Pichichi race by five goals. Messi continues to raise the bar for most goals scored in a single La Liga season, which was previously set at 41 by Cristiano Ronaldo in the 2010/2011 season. The Argentine currently leads the Portuguese by five goals in the Pichichi race thanks to the four goals he scored against Espanyol this evening.
The Argentine genius took his La Liga goal tally to 50 goals, which sees him clear of Georgescu’s (47) record, as he fired 4 past the visiting team’s keeper. The Argentine goal-scoring machine, who smashed the record set in 1976 by the Dynamo Bucharest striker of most goals scored in a single season in a European league, has one more game to increase his La Liga goal tally.
Barselona ALL-time Top scorers list:
1.Lionel Messi (Argentina) 2005- = 234 goals
2.Cesar Rodriguez (Spain) 1942-55 = 232 goals
3.Ladislao Kubala (Hungary) 1951-61 = 194 goals
4.Josep Samitie (Spain) 1919-32 = 178 goals
5.Josep Escola (Spain) 1934-49 = 167 goals
6. Paulino Alcantara (Philippines) 1912-27 = 137 goals
7.Angel Arocha (Spain) 1926-33 = 134 goals
8.Samue Eto'o (Camerun) 2004-09 = 130 goals
9.Rivaldo (Brazil) 1997-02 = 130 goals
10.Mariano Martin (Spain) 1940-48 = 124 goals
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BEST EVER, MESSI.
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