Leo added in Prague another historical feat: the only scorer for so many consecutive editions. He has 113 goals and has beaten 33 different rivals; Inter and Borussia can be the next two.
The 1-2 victory against Slavia in Prague left a strange aftertaste. Barça returned from Eden Arena as a solo leader of Group F but with the feeling of having suffered in excess. Messi's very serious face leaving the stadium was expressive.
At that time, the Catalan blast should not have thought that he had made history again. His goal in the first minutes of the game, an encouraging 0-1, made him the only player in history who had scored at least one goal in 15 consecutive editions of the Champions League. An enormity Other.
His first time signed on November 2, 2005, will soon be 14 years, in a 5-0 to Panathinaikos. He played just over half an hour and gave him to score the 3-0. He was the only one who made it. From then on, his progression has proved unstoppable, achieving the top scorer trophy of one edition six times, one of them shared with Neymar and Ronaldo.
Messi, who a few days ago received the trophy of his sixth Golden Boot, is demonstrating an inexhaustible scoring ability. He also matched Cristiano Ronaldo and Raúl González as the players who have scored the most different rivals. Nothing less than 33.
The most affected were Arsenal (9), Milan (8), Celtic (8) and Bayer Leverkusen (7), with which he also broke the record of more (5) in a European match.
Seven others have been saved from their voracity: Rubin Kazan, Atletico, Benfica, Udinese, Levski Sofia, Borussia Dortmund and Inter.
Interestingly, Leo will have the opportunity in the coming weeks to expand his list of victims with the latter two. Ondrej Kolar, Slavia's goalkeeper, was the 153 beaten by the Argentine.
Spectacular goals
From the 2005-2006 season to the 2019-2020, Messi has been scoring goals in the European Cup uninterrupted. They go 113 goals in 137 matches (138 counting the 2004-2005 one) and chase Cristiano, who goes for 127 but with 27 more matches.
Ronaldo's most voluminous season was 2011-12 with 14 goals. And in four others he scored 10 or more goals: 2010-2011 (12), 2014-2015 (10), 2016-2017 (11) and 2018-19 (12).
And of all these so many, Messi gets one. The goal scored head to Manchester United, to Van der Sar. The 'Pep Team', who was doing the best football on the continent, had in hand to conquer a historic triplet against Manchester United in the Roma Olympic in the 2008-2009 Champions League final. That day, Leo flew to Xavi Hernandez center. There are other spectacular ones, such as Bayern leaving Boateng nailed, the raffle rivals to score Real Madrid in Santiago Bernabéu, another in the final against United or one against Liverpool. And And is that the Barca captain has 606 goals as Barca in 694 games.