Teaching Barça values to boys and girls. In the current season for Barcelona Lionel Messi gave a total of 187 shots, of which 85 were shots on goal. "He ordered his players to despise Messi, to look down on him, to provoke him by touching his hair or on the head, to insult him," Torres told Bleacher Report. According to Torres, Messi had a row with Guardiola before the game over team selection. Four-some! Twenty years have passed since Lionel Messi first arrived in Barcelona. On January 30, 2020, he passed the 500 wins mark with Barça.. The west London side were reduced to 10 men after 37 minutes when their captain, John Terry, got a red card for kneeing Alexis Sanchez from behind. All quotes and information obtained firsthand unless otherwise indicated. Swarmed: West Germany's Gerd Muller trying to find a way through the Holland defence during the 1974 World Cup final. The La Liga title was on the line. Then there are those who are really, really passionate about their jobs. Messi avait déjà détrôné Gerd Muller après un doublé face au Bétis Séville le 9 décembre. October was a barnstorming month for Messi, who scored seven goals for his club and three for his country, and was the crucial difference in some thrilling games. Most goals in a calendar year. Nobody could come near Messi at the time—not even Ronaldo. Messi celebrates one of his quartet of goals in the La Liga match against Valencia, 14th – One goal vs. Bayer Leverkusen in Champions League second round, first leg (3-1), 26th – One goal vs. Atletico Madrid (2-1), Goals for Barcelona - 13 Running total - 30. During the international pause, he helped Argentina to a 3-1 win over Paraguay, and then scored a couple of braces against Getafe and Spartak Moscow in the Champions League. As expected, Barca raced into an early 2-0 lead. He was still only 24 years old. It's impossible.' The match against Switzerland showed that Messi is equally adept in front of goal for his country as for his club. It was a problem of a rebellion against his coach.". "Messi discovers that the goal has a crossbar," Cotrina says. He's not a superstar like LeBron James or Cristiano Ronaldo. He's done it! "It is really special when you see him play, scoring goals where he slaloms through your defence," Lamah says. He broke a record that had stood since the 1950s. They know every metre of it. Two of his goals were sumptuous chips which left the Bayer goalkeeper red-faced, while the last of his five was a great blast into the bottom corner from the edge of the area. Un immense record. Then, after his three strikes against Uruguay and Chile helped Argentina a little further along the path to Brazil 2014, he shrugged off the jetlag to bag a hat-trick in a 5-4 rollercoaster with Deportivo. It was a phenomenally prolific month in La Liga too, as Barcelona tries to keep pace with Real – he scored eight goals in just five matches and the only time he failed to hit the target was in the first leg of the Champions League quarter-final in Milan. "Messi 2012", Barcelona, Spain. They had also been teammates on Barca B, the club's reserve side. César Rodríguez had been Barça's top marksman in 1939 and between 1942 and 1955, scoring 232 goals in official matches. He has probably captured Messi in more memorable poses than any other photographer. Athletic Bilbao in the Copa Del Rey final (3-0), Goals for Argentina - 4 Running total - 51. He played for Osasuna in defence against Barcelona in that cup tie. They are watching football all the time. The squad won another Copa del Rey the following month, bringing the number of titles Guardiola bagged in his four-year reign to 14. The latter is a goal Arjen Robben has also scored countless times. Despite all his powers, his ability to terrorise the defences of the world's best teams, he doesn't have the confident bearing on the pitch of a man who is master of his domain. Crystal Palace 1-2 Everton: Roy Hodgson press conference, Sheffield United 0-1 Leeds: Chris Wilder press conference, Brendan Rodgers salutes Vardy hat-trick after win against Man City, West Brom 3-3 Chelsea: Frank Lampard press conference, Pep Guardiola on Manchester City losing 5-2 to Leicester, Solskjaer on United late win: 'We need to improve a lot going forward', West Brom boss Slaven Bilić gives insight after draw against Chelsea, Conor McGregor showcases intense training and shadow boxing on ring, Ancelotti: 'I'm really pleased with our start of the season', Brighton 2-3 Manchester United: Graham Potter press conference, Man City v Leicester: Premier League match preview, Adebayo Akinfenwa slams FA's decision over 'fat water buffalo' slur. Eleven Barcelona and Chelsea players, including Iniesta, Juan Mata and Didier Drogba, are aligned behind Messi in different states of animation. And Leo clearly wasn't suffering from too much lost sleep as he continued to bang in the goals at a rate of knots. It's not like, say, Old Trafford. "Messi shows more in the middle, where it is more difficult for him because he can be tackled from 360 degrees," Reinartz says. En un entrenament a la Ciutat Esportiva del Barça el 2013. 7th – Five goals vs. Bayer Leverkusen in Champions League second round, second leg (7-1), 11th – Two goals vs. Muller scored 67 in that campaign for Bayern Munich, while Messi now had 68. The director of the orchestra and his star violinist welded in an embrace after their final work.". The reasons for the second spot-kick were less clear but again Messi made no mistake. "Some people say that their relationship was cold. Cotrina was behind the goal with his camera and took a marvellous photo. 7 and to get him to outdo the Argentinian. Los Blancos centre-back Pepe had become despised nationally after he stamped on Messi's hand as the Argentinian lay on the Santiago Bernabeu turf during a Clasico in January 2012. The center for sports knowledge and innovation. It was a surprise for everybody.". Messi has scored more hat tricks than any other player in LaLiga history. The Official site of the Barça Foundation. Pick your favourite! LIVE: Liverpool vs Arsenal - Alisson fit to START for Jurgen Klopp's champions as they take on Gunners in... LIVE: Fulham vs Aston Villa - Scott Parker's start to the season goes from bad to worse as Tyrone Mings puts... 'If they don't invest in the next week, it's tough days ahead... the honeymoon period is certainly over for... Frank Lampard 'gave Marcos Alonso a furious dressing down in front of a stunned Chelsea squad after the... 'Sam Allardyce was no longer the England football team manager. "It wasn't that Mourinho invented a different tactic—an extraordinary tactic—to counteract Messi. City rivals Espanyol had come for a league fixture, and Messi was in the mood for some bullying. He created and finished his first goal, running diagonally towards the penalty area, exchanging passes, and then finding the bottom corner. It's a physical thing. This included 50 goals in La Liga, making him the Golden Boot … "He has to be more aware, but it's a closer distance to the opponent's goal.". Ronaldo scored the match-winner, a classic striker's finish after he was put clear by an audacious pass from Mesut Ozil. Nobody else can boast such a figure in Spanish football. David Villa i Leo Messi junts el 2012. "He had more talent than we had on the second team," Damia added. Messi's trophy cabinet contains 34 winners medals with FC Barcelona. The organisation that unites ex-players from all FC Barcelona football teams. Defenders know it's coming, but it doesn't make it any easier to stop. If Xavi didn't pass to Messi and passed to Iniesta instead, you had to make your next decision a different one—in high pressure.". "When I saw him in the hallway at the hotel, and he came in with that jacket, I thought, ‘Look—the best player in the world,'" Cotrina said. You can see that they are cracks [stars], but with Messi, no, you couldn't [until that night]. Goals repeat themselves: the dinks over onrushing goalkeepers; the times Messi gathered the ball by the right edge of the opposition box and ran across the 18-yard line, feinting to shoot, defenders flapping helplessly, before he curled the ball low into the left corner of the net with his left foot. He didn’t, however, score in either leg against Chelsea, who dumped Barcelona out 3-2 on aggregate to reach the final with Bayern Munich. His two goals also drew Messi level with Cesar Rodriguez as Barcelona's all-time leading league goalscorer. It was a compelling match with echoes of Barcelona's defeat to Inter Milan in the same fixture two years earlier. Real Madrid secured the league title a week-and-a-half later in Bilbao. "We all knew he'd be a great player," Damia says. Except when you're playing chess, you sit on a chair and you have three or four minutes to decide your move. It's why his accomplishments are so staggering. Messi's consistency in front of goal has meant that he is the only player to score more than 10 goals in 14 consecutive seasons. Guardiola knew how to relate to Messi. Against Sociedad, he wasted little time getting started afresh, scoring on 11 and 16 minutes, but against Osasuna, he was required to score twice late on to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. A week later, Messi's season ended in trademark superlative style with a hat-trick in a friendly thriller with Brazil, capped with an outstanding curling shot into the top corner. RECORD! It's huge—100,000 people. Barcelona weren't exactly struggling to make an impact in the tie, but Messi was introduced for Pedro on the hour. The feat was replicated by Shaktar Donetsk's Luiz Adriano in 2014. They don't even know which player they will be marking in the next game. Last season's was his seventh -one more than Telmo Zarra. You don't know what to do to stop him.". The closest to matching him is Andrés Iniesta, who won 32 with the club. "For a defender, it's really difficult. 303 likes. I can't prove that. Jasper Juinen/Getty Images. This site uses cookies. The year 2012, in which Lionel Messi scored an incredible 91 goals in 69 games, began inauspiciously for him. Barcelona won 4-0; Messi whacked in all four goals. Three hours before the game, he collared his coach, Pep Guardiola, and pestered him, wanting to play. He says it's simple: Messi just loves the game. In 2012, for Barça and Argentina, Messi scored 91 goals - beating a record previously held by Gerd Müller. The two sides met in a pivotal encounter in April 2012. He knew how to seduce him, to make Leo dedicate himself 100 percent from 2008 to the football project that Pep proposed. His goal in the 3-0 Copa Del Rey final win over Athletic Bilbao helped deliver Barcelona the Cup for the 26th time. TOTAL! His fourth season in charge was proving exhausting. The pitch looks bigger. In B games, sometimes he was a bit lost, playing a bit more for himself, trying to dribble on his own.". In the 2011-2012 season, Messi managed 73 goals and 29 assists in all competitions. In 10 Clasico matches, he had won only once, and that was thanks to an extra-time goal in the previous year's Copa del Rey final. His record stood for over half a century, until Messi matched it on March 20, 2012, with a hat trick against Granada. "Normally the ball goes into the net. "From training with him, you could tell he had something different.". Lionel Messi shots an average of 0.67 goals per game in club competitions. "All the top players I've played against have really good body language, like Robert Lewandowski," Reinartz says. Abella, who also played for Racing Santander, Real Betis and Middlesbrough during a 12-year career, holds one of the keys to understanding what makes Messi so good. It captures the hegemony of Barca in those years.". He chooses it even above the sight of him scoring a hat-trick for Martin's country, Argentina, against Brazil in a 4-3 win in New Jersey in June 2012, which announced La Albiceleste's return to the top of football after some farcical years under Diego Maradona and Sergio Batista. They left gaping holes in their defence. On January 4, the morning of Barcelona's first game of the year, the club's doctor took a look at him and told him he wasn't fit to play. He is also the youngest man to win three times, the only player to win four in a row, and the player with the longest time between first and last wins (2009 and 2019). As opposed to the bursts down the flanks typical of Ronaldo and Bale, Messi tends to do his sprinting in more dangerous zones—in the centre of the pitch, bearing down on goal, often unlocking the last line of a defence with a one-two. Of course you know he wants to go on to his left foot. After retiring, he co-founded a football analysis company that has the German FA and Borussia Dortmund on its client roster. Overall, his reliability is even more impressive: Messi has scored over 40 goals in 10 consecutive years: 2009/10 (47 goals), 2010/11 (53), 2011/12 (73), 2012/13 (60), 2013/14 (41), 2014/15 (58), 2015/16 (41), 2016/17 (54), 2017/18 (45) and 2018/19 (51). This included 50 goals in La Liga, making him the Golden Boot winner. Three days later, Chelsea arrived at the Camp Nou for a Champions League semi-final second leg, clinging to a 1-0 lead from the first game at Stamford Bridge. "It was easier for him on the first team because the players around him could understand what he was going to do. Some 37 teams have conceded goals to Messi in league competition over the course of his career. Published: 20:36 BST, 9 December 2012 | Updated: 21:52 BST, 9 December 2012. LANDMARK! Against teams that line up with, say, a 4-4-2 system, the Argentina international has an innate ability to show up in space between the opposition's two banks of defence—between their four midfielders and four defenders. In March 2012, Messi scored in a league game against Granada to become the club's all-time leading scorer. He picked up the fourth—for his extraordinary feats in 2012, when he bypassed records set by Pele (75 goals in 1958) and Gerd Muller (85 goals in 1972)—in January 2013 at a ceremony in Zurich. RECORD! Closer and closer: Messi moved to within one of Gerd Muller's record with two goals in the 5-1 win over Athletic Bilbao at the weekend. STAT ATTACK! It never hits the crossbar. The last month of the 2011-2012 saw another sackful of goals and records, but just one trophy to add to the 13 he already had in the Pep Guardiola era – the Copa Del Rey. He couldn't help himself. "Messi is a very intelligent player," he says. He was running over the pitch or not running that much for 85 minutes, like a small, sad kid. "The defender had to be like a chess player," he said. Only Messi holds this honour, and he did it twice: In 2011/12 and 2015/16. From November 2012 to May of 2013, he scored in 21 consecutive LaLiga games. Reinartz noticed a curious thing about Messi during those two Champions League games. He scored 10 out of 10 penalties in Barcelona's league matches that year. He's one of the best players in the game—along with the likes of Mesut Ozil—at sniffing out this crucial extra legroom, according to Reinartz. Athletic Bilbao (2-0), Goals for Barcelona - 9 Running total - 39. He banged the ball high down the right side. Part of the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday & Metro Media Group. "When you play Barcelona in the Camp Nou, it's very difficult," Lamah says. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. Barcelona were 3-0 and cruising at the Riazor, but Deportivo fought back to within one goal. For 90 minutes, Barca laid siege to the Blues' goal. Ronaldo is arriving too late to intervene, skidding on his knees. "It was a bitter pill to swallow that provoked a despondency among Messi and his team-mates," says Ramiro Martin, author of Messi: Un Genio en la Escuela del Futbol. "Barcelona are comfortable there. "He's so mobile at dribbling, and he can change direction so quickly. 2nd – vs. Benfica in the Champions League group stage (2-0), 13th – Two goals vs. Uruguay in World Cup qualifier (3-0), 17th – One goal vs. Chile in World Cup qualifier (2-1), 20th – Three goals vs. Deportivo La Coruna (5-4), 23rd – vs. Celtic in the Champions League group stage (2-1), 27th – Two goals vs. Rayo Vallecano (5-0), Goals for Barcelona - 9 Running total - 82. "When he gets the ball, he often has a good deal of space between himself and his opponent. 1st – Two goals vs. Players such as Xavi Hernandez and Andres Iniesta were on the same wavelength. "Sometimes you would look at him and think, 'Where is this homeless guy going?' Barca scored twice in the first half, but Chelsea nicked a crucial away goal thanks to a sumptuous lob by Ramires just before half-time. Daniel Fernández / EFE. If anyone thought Messi's predatory instincts had been dulled by a couple of months off, they were very much mistaken. He started the 2012-2013 season in the same red hot form as before, scoring two against Real Sociedad on the opening weekend, two at Osasuna in the second game and another two across the legs of the Super Cup contest with Real Madrid. He was starting to shape his personality.". A week after Guardiola announced he was leaving the club, Messi made a more profound gesture at the Camp Nou during the manager's last home game in charge of Barcelona. If you have 11 minutes to spare and watch the goals Messi scored in 2012 on YouTube, you'll notice patterns. 7th – One goal vs. Celtic in the Champions League (1-2), 20th – Two goals vs. Spartak Moscow in the Champions League (3-0), Goals for Barcelona - 4 Running total - 86. The year 2012, in which Lionel Messi scored an incredible 91 goals in 69 games, began inauspiciously for him. The feat meant he was the first player to score five goals in a Champions League match since the tournament’s re-branding in 1992. That was more upsetting for him than the stamp by Pepe.". In doing so, he became the highest goalscorer in a European season in history. When he scored in the 4-0 World Cup qualifying win over Ecuador, his 23 rd goal for Argentina, he celebrated by placing the ball up his shirt, suggesting his girlfriend Antonella Roccuzzo was pregnant. esta pagina les mostrara todo sobre Messi por favor no insultar juntos nos haremos grandes en la pagina Messi collected the Ballon D'Or for the third consecutive year at the start of the year. With 27 club goals already under his belt in the first half of the season, Ballon D’Or winner Messi entered 2012 in irresistible form and officially the best player in the world. They see it just as a job. The best place to see the Argentine superstar in action is Barça TV+! Only when he had the ball you saw that he was happy, and you realised he was the best player in the world.". "It was a final coronation of a unique project. Everybody around the club had been talking about Messi. The coach had decided to leave Barcelona. He's good at moving away from the opponent. The South American is just about to lift the ball over goalkeeper Iker Casillas—out of frame—and into the goal. Guardiola was at his wit's end with the player's insubordination. The pair hugged. Here are 20 such milestones that he has reached. It was my f*****g fault': Agent Scott... 'There is so much riding on this - this is the guy to replace Vincent Kompany': Pep Guardiola's Man City... A Lionel Messi-spearheaded tactical switch, dominating the touchline and trusting the kids: How Ronald... 'I would like to fight but I don't think I can': Jose Mourinho says he has GIVEN UP on the Carabao Cup... Edouard Mendy set to make Chelsea debut in Carabao Cup clash against rivals Tottenham as he finally replaces... 'Brown, Fletcher, O'Shea... these days, they'd say: "f***ing s***, why is HE playing for United?"' BABY! The comments below have not been moderated. The stadium is more open than football stadiums in England. End of an era: Pep Guardiola left Barcelona in May, having won 14 honours in four years at the club. Avec, entre janvier et décembre, un total de 91 buts marqués avec le FC Barcelone et l'Argentine. 25th – One goal vs. Messi was starting to grow into himself and to accept his status as the world's greatest footballer. Roland Lamah, a nomadic Belgium international—who later played in the Premier League while on loan with Swansea City and is now tearing it up for FC Dallas in Major League Soccer—appeared on the wing for Osasuna in the match. He did so with a hat trick against Sevilla, taking him to 253 in league action (in 289 games). "I spoke a lot with Guardiola about Leo," Martin says. So, with 82 goals in the calendar year and Muller's record tantalisingly close, Messi made the perfect start to December with another double in the 5-1 home win over Bilbao on Saturday. He normally has two or three metres distance to the next player. 2nd – One goal vs. Ecuador in World Cup qualifier (4-0), Goals for Barcelona - 6 Goals for Argentina - 1 Running total - 58. His quartet against Valencia was masterful - first, he squeezed the ball in from a seemingly impossible angle to bring Barca level, then a couple of poacher's finishes delivered him a hat-trick. Athletic Bilbao (5-1). RECORD! When he's so close to goal, it takes an exceptional defence to keep Messi scoreless. "I believe that the hug with Guardiola doesn't have a rival," Martin says. ', "I remember seeing Leo Messi, and he had really bad body language. "There was a huge fuss in the Barca hotel before the game," Torres says. Messi and Guardiola had their ups and downs. By 2012, the trio—who formed the backbone of Guardiola's iconic Barcelona teams—had conquered the world, with Messi leading the way. Jasper Juinen/Getty Images. Messi threatened to not play the match but relented. Osasuna were the visiting team. Officially the best: Lionel Messi started 2012 on a high after being voted the FIFA Ballon D'Or winner for the third consecutive year. In this Sportsmail special, we take a look back at a wonderful year for the little wizard. He got sick. Messi and his team-mates were visited by further turmoil in December of that year, when Guardiola's successor, Tito Vilanova—who had coached Messi at La Masia, Barcelona's youth academy—had a relapse of throat cancer. Messi won four Ballon d'Or awards in a row. The Barça star scored the most goals in Europe's big five leagues in 2009/10, 2011/12, 2012/13, 2016/17, 2017/18 and 2018/19. RECORD! Cotrina has a picture of Messi scoring a goal against Real Madrid, taken at the start of the 2011-2012 season in the second leg of Barcelona's Spanish Super Cup victory. In the same month, he knocked five goals past Bayer Leverkusen in a Champions League match. They had travelled across the north-east of Spain to play Barca in the Copa del Rey, more in hope than expectation. Messi was despondent. BABY! Leverkusen had lost the first leg in Germany 3-1; in the second leg, they went for broke. Messi posted a note on Facebook to "wholeheartedly" thank Guardiola for all he had done for him during his career. According to Guillem Balague's biography Messi, the Real Madrid players noticed Messi played within himself during the game, as if he were nursing a muscle injury. Five stars: Messi destroyed Bayer Leverkusen with five goals in the second leg of their Champions League meeting in March. 3rd – Two goals vs. AC Milan in the Champions League quarter-final, second leg (3-1), 18th – vs. Chelsea in the Champions League semi-final, first leg (0-1), 24th – vs. Chelsea in the Champions League semi-final, second leg (2-2), 29th – Two goals vs. Rayo Vallecano (7-0), Goals for Barcelona - 8 Running total - 47. Gerd Muller scored 85 goals in 60 matches for Bayern Munich and West Germany in 1972 - a record for the highest number of goals scored in a calendar year that has stood for 40 years. The despair seeped into the following season, Messi's only trophyless campaign with Barcelona. By his imperious standards, September was a bit of a lean month for Messi - just the five goals for club and country! Robin Dutt, Bayer Leverkusen's coach for the Champions League ties in 2012, says it was almost impossible to defend against him because he was surrounded by such good team-mates. RECORDS! It's as though he doesn't know how to compute what has happened. This then became a world best when a remarkable four goals in the Catalan derby with Espanyol took his tally to 72 and leapfrogged Archie Stark, who scored 70 for Bethlehem Steel in the 1924-1925 American Soccer League. "When he comes in front of you, you're like an Egyptian mummy, you know? Here, he parades the trophy before the Copa Del Rey match with Real Madrid at the Nou Camp, 4th – Two goals vs. Osasuna in Copa Del Rey (4-0), 18th – vs. Real Madrid in Copa Del Rey (2-1), 25th – vs. Real Madrid in Copa Del Rey (2-2), Goals for Barcelona - 7 Goals for Argentina - 3 Running total - 17. En 2012, Lionel Messi effectuait peut-être sa plus grande année individuelle. He also has such good speed and ball control; you can't get close to him because he's so fast.". On November 22, 2014, Messi overtook Telmo Zarra (Athletic Club, 1940-55) as the league's top goalscorer. The highlights included a four-goal haul in a 5-1 win over Valencia and a hat-trick for Argentina in a friendly match against Switzerland. On the 7th, the sixth Clasico of the year, ended in a personal duel between Messi and his nemesis Cristiano Ronaldo. Messi celebrates scoring against Real Betis, on the night he beat Gerd Muller's 40-year-old goalscoring record. The 20-year-old Tello bungled the couple of chances that came his way and was substituted for Fabregas late in the second half. Ronaldo is impotent, on his knees. He is always with a football at home.". Barca brothers: Messi celebrates with Alexis Sanchez after scoring against Real Madrid in the Super Cup, first leg at the Nou Camp. And he wasted little time in finding the net in the New Year, with a double against Osasuna in the Copa Del Rey. In the biggest game in Spain, Messi has scored 26 times in total. No one had done that before. On March 7, 2012, Messi scored five times for Barça in a single game. On March 7, 2012, Messi scored five times for Barça in a single game. The best, however, was saved until last with a burst clear and delicious chip. Messi has been on the winning side in 361 LaLiga games. L'attaquant du FC Barcelone a inscrit samedi son 91e et dernier but de l'année 2012, toutes compétitions confondues. For some, football is not a passion. Messi has been top scorer in the Champions League in each of the past four seasons - with, in order, eight, nine, 12 and 14 goals - and has 56 goals overall in the competition in 73 matches. No other player in the 21st Century has set up as many goals. Real Madrid prevailed, winning 2-1. Dutt instructed his players to press all 11 of Barcelona's players, including goalkeeper Victor Valdes in an attempt to cut Messi off at the source. Honours finished even, with both superstars scoring twice in a 2-2 draw. The fracas with Messi left him convinced he was making the right decision. "Or when you see Sami Khedira on the pitch, you think, 'Oh, he's really self-confident. The tables turned, however, during the April 2012 league match. If you continue to browse the site, we shall assume that you accept the use of cookies. He showed his set-piece prowess in this one, converting two penalties and a 25-yard free-kick. The Barca boss knew better than to stand in his way, so he listed him as a substitute. He had flu and was running a fever. On the 11th, his double against Real Mallorca took him past Pele's long-standing benchmark of 75 goals in a calendar year set in 1958.
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