It is difficult not to be surprised with the level of regularity that Messi has acquired during his career. By now, he's fighting for his eleventh league, that would put just one of the historic Gento brand. His individual numbers overwhelm him even more than his 34 titles as a Barça player. In the last eleven Leagues, Messi had made 388 goals, with an average of 35.27 per course. His injury in the first training session of the season, from which he relapsed before the debut at San Mamés, prevented him from playing five of the first seven games. Then Messi set the clock and, with his ups and downs, he is again the top scorer of the championship with 19 goals. Messi circulates towards his seventh Pichichi trophy. He would surpass Zarra, a legend who reached his sixth highest goalscorer trophy in 1947. Messi is therefore close to breaking a record that would have lasted 73 years and which he himself had equaled last year.
The greatest thing of Messi, however, is not only in his goalscoring figures, which although they point to a slight decrease are still at a fantastic level. It is that he dominates the competition with an iron hand in almost all the important offensive statistics. In addition to being the top scorer, the six-time Ballon d'Or is the best assistant in LaLiga. He has given 12 goal passes for eight by Portu and seven by Roberto Torres. It also remains the most skillful. No one has dribbled more than him. Messi has “gambeteado” 118 times. He far wins Fekir and Orellana, who have 73 and 62 dribbles respectively. And it is also that more shoots at goal. He has shot 105 times, by Benzema 96 and Fekir 73.
Messi wants to take advantage of the forced stoppage due to the coronavirus crisis to try to reach the physical level he was in in October and November. In those two months he scored nine goals in seven games, culminating in a goal at Wanda (a match played specifically on December 1) the day before receiving his sixth Ballon d'Or. Despite the bad vibes that Barça has transmitted, the Barça team will reach the last part of the championship, if it is resumed, with options of everything. And if there must be a favorite to take LaLiga, that must be the man who has governed it with an iron hand in the last decade and who won the Royal Society captain last Saturday. Wearing heart and bracelet. .