Leo Messi, scoring of penalti against the Ferencvaros

HE PROVOKED THE PENALTY

Messi scores again and already are 16 seasons followed 'wetting' in Champions

Published:20/10/2020 - 21:45h

Updated:21/10/2020 - 03:55h

Leo Messi carried already too many matches without scoring, and this Tuesday scored again. The Argentinian star caused a penalty and advanced to the Barcelona team against the Ferencvaros

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The FC Barcelona did not begin well the party against the Ferencvaros, but luckily arrived the one of always to solve the problems. After a goal cancelled to the Hungarian group and of a powerful shot to the crossbar, the Barça recovered the reins of the party thanks to a played individual of the '10', that caused a penalti very clear and afterwards transformed it he same, adjusting very well the shot to the right of the goalkeeper.

With his goal of penalti, Messi goes on doing history in Europe. And it is that 'The Flea' already can boast to having marked against 36 different teams in the UEFA Champions League, in which it was his first clash against the Hungarian team. The forward rosarino was anxious for seeing if it could mark this Tuesday in the Camp Nou and break like this the bad series of the previous parties.

In what it goes of campaign, so only has been able to mark three goals of penalti (two with the Barça and one with Argentina). In spite of everything, has been able also to give assistances to his mates and generate occasions of goal he solito, as one of the targets in front of the Celtic of Vigo qye fraguó with a shot diverted by a defender at the end of the meshes.

It can that it was not crossing his best moment of face to the rival goal, and that the 4-2-3-1 of Koeman subtract him leadership in the front of attack, but the true is that the numbers speak by himself alone and, in spite of reducing the goals of the '10', are expanding the registers goleadores general of the team.

Something very positive, and that means to break definitively with a 'Messi-Dependency' that has dragged the FC Barcelona from the season 2008-09, when the rosarino eclosionó to level goleador under the control of Pep Guardiola. Now, the rosarino is one more in the machinery of attack of the Barcelona team, accompanied of new sap and young legs.

The maximum goleador of the phase of groups of Champions

With his target this Tuesday, besides, Messi has attained to mark in 16 consecutive editions of Champions League, a record that serves him for empatar with Ryan Giggs. Further back they remain names like Raúl González, Karin Benzema (15 editions), Cristiano Ronaldo (14 editions), Arjen Robben (13 editions), Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Andriy Shevchenko and Didier Drogba (12 editions).

'ESPN', simultaneously, has remembered that Messi has turned into the player that more goals has marked in the phase of groups of the Champions League, surpassing to the same Raúl González White. Reasons to smile for the Argentinian star of the Barça.

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