Achieve double-digit scoring in 15 consecutive seasons of the regular league
Spanish professional football FC Barcelona’s Lionel Messi (34) rose to the top of the goal by scoring two consecutive multi-goals in the Primera Liga (La Liga).
Messi scored two goals in an away match in the 2020-2021 La Liga round 18 against Granada held at Estadio Nuevo Los Carmenes in Granada, Spain on the 10th (Korean time), leading the team to a 4-0 win.
In the 35th minute of the first half, where the team led the team 1-0 with Antoine Griezmann’s first winning goal, Messi scored an additional goal by connecting Griezmann’s pass with a left-footed shot.
Seven minutes later, he shook the net with a free kick from the right of the penalty arc, scoring his 10th and 11th goals in the regular league this season.
Messi also scored two goals against Athletic Bilbao on the 7th of this month, leading the team to a 3-2 victory.
Messi, who scored 11 goals and 4 assists in 17 La Liga games this season by scoring two consecutive multi-goals, is Herard Moreno (Villarreal, 10 goals), Luis Suarez (Atletico Madrid), Iago Aspas (Celta Vigo, more than 9 goals). Became the sole leader in scoring the league.
Messi, who debuted in the first team in Barcelona in 2004, scored double digits in the regular league for 15 consecutive seasons from 2006-2007.
According to the statistics site Opta, Messi is the only one who has scored more than 10 goals in 15 consecutive seasons in La Liga.
Messi also wears a Barcelona uniform for 17 seasons, scoring 648 goals in 752 games in the official game, surpassing Pele, the’football emperor’ who scored 643 goals in Santos, Brazil, and has a record of’the single club’s most goalscoring’.
Barcelona won a leisurely victory on that day with only Messi and Griez in charge of two goals each.
Griezmann fired a scoring gun that stabbed the team’s victory in the 18th minute of the second half ahead of 3-0.
Barcelona, which was undefeated in eight games, including three consecutive wins, rose to third place (34 points).
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