Leo Messi always appears in the important moments, and therefore no extrañó that it did it in the first party of this 2017. It was in Saint Mamés, when the FC Barcelona went losing 2-0 in The Cathedral, in the party of gone of eighth of final of Glass of the King 2016-17.
The Argentinian star of the Barcelona group began the year as it finish it: marvelling. It annotated a golazo of direct fault, from a position escorada in the left band and that remembered to another fault that transformed years backwards in the Calderón against the Athletic of Madrid.
In this occasion, however, the goalkeeper Gorka Iraizoz touched the balloon and by little detains the shot, although finally the balloon rebasó the line of goal and there was not space for a "goal ghost" in The Cathedral. The goal gave hopes to the FC Barcelona, although the culés did not have many more clear occasions of goal along the party.
The first of three faults followed annotating
That was the first fault materialised by Leo Messi in this year, but no the only. As afterwards the best player of the world would throw "" other two parties annotating two goals followed of frank hit. Goals that supposed point and classification copera, being the third annotated precisely to the Basques.