Re: The Lionel Messi Appreciation Thread & Fan Club IV

[Harmonica]

Career fastest and Ligue 1 fastest assist, 8 seconds.

[_LMG_10_]

He had a couple of other sick passes against Lille. Can you post those?

The pitch seemed pretty bad as players were slipping all over the place, but he placed a few passes on a dime

[_LMG_10_]

The more I watch this, the better it becomes.
It's a classic Messi goal. Create the play, AND finish it.

He picks up the ball in his own half, destroys 8 players (9 including the keeper) with two give and go's and a sublime finish.
Just Messi things


P.S. Notice the weight of the through ball to Mendes. It sets up a perfectly timed one-touch for the return pass. That attention to detail

[Harmonica]

He had a couple of other sick passes against Lille. Can you post those?

The pitch seemed pretty bad as players were slipping all over the place, but he placed a few passes on a dime

You mean this?



Playing from CB

[Myesyats]

People raving about KDB making a through ball this guy does a couple of those per game in his sleep and it shows how far ahead of the competition he is

[Harmonica]

Lol KDB. They are raving about him because something that good is finally been shown in the fog islands, from where they can't see to anywhere else.



This was more than a decade ago, since then Messi has like 5 times more throughballs than the next one.

[BarcaLearning]

Yep, oppositions often just crowd in front of him to try n stop these, Lille seemed too open n MNM were all having fun out there

[Harmonica]

Lionel Messi's 9 successful dribbles against Nantes tonight are the most successful dribbles completed by one player in a single match in the top 5 European leagues this season.

Leads Europe Top 5 in dribbles and assists, at 35.

Top dribblers in Top 5 leagues.

29 Messi, Ligue 1
16 Eze, Premier League
16 Ejuke, Bundesliga
13 Radonjic, Serie A
11 Carvalho, La Liga

[Harmonica]

Now leads europe in throughballs too

12 Messi
7 Neymar
6 Sotoca
4 Savic
4 De Bruyne

[Harmonica]

First player to score 18 consecutive seasons in CL, and against 39 clubs.

14+16 in the last 20 games.

[danyjr]

Gotta say he scores nowhere near as he used to be and misses chances he used to convert. He looks very human these days.

[Harmonica]

Gotta say he scores nowhere near as he used to be and misses chances he used to convert. He looks very human these days.

That's relative too.

[Harmonica]

Most throughballs since 09-10 in Top 5 leagues

345 Messi
182 Fabregas
165 Totti
136 David Silva
123 Alexis Sanchez
110 Iniesta
109 Zlatan
108 Xavi
105 Pirlo
99 Özil
93 Cazorla
92 De Bruyne
82 Cassano
81 Neymar
...
65 Cronaldo

09-10 50 Ronaldinho
10-11 38 Fabregas
11-12 56 Messi
12-13 48 Totti
13-14 25 Fabregas
14-15 34 Messi
15-16 33 Messi
16-17 20 Messi
17-18 22 Neymar
18-19 31 Messi
19-20 20 Messi
20-21 20 Messi
21-22 18 Messi
22-23 12 Messi

[El Gunner]

look at Wenger man so inspirational

[Harmonica]

Here are successful dribbles.

Most dribbles since 09-10 in Top 5 Leagues

1942 Messi
1249 Hazard
959 Neymar
925 Zaha
848 Ribery
840 Firmino
809 Saint-Maxim
743 Sanchez
721 Cuadrado
699 Cronaldo
690 Ben Arfa
675 Traore
657 Raffael
646 Boufal
620 Choupo-Moting

09-10 145 Messi
10-11 186 Messi
11-12 176 Messi
12-13 126 Diego
13-14 167 Raffael
14-15 181 Hazard
15-16 152 Ben Arfa
16-17 168 Neymar
17-18 185 Messi
18-19 144 Boufal
19-20 184 Traore
20-21 159 Messi
21-22 150 Saint-Maxim
22-23 30 Messi

[_LMG_10_]

Gotta say he scores nowhere near as he used to be and misses chances he used to convert. He looks very human these days.

His finishing has been off, but I think it just looks worst than it actually is. I'm not really worried about it.

I think it has more to do with him playing a different role and not needing to be the main goalscorer. He's got Mbappe and Neymar to feed and that's his main focus.

In his last few years at Barca, he was totally carrying the goalscoring burden. Suarez was pretty inconsistent and poor in his finishing in his last few years. Dembele was always injured and isn't a 9. Messi knew he had to score a boat load of goals.

You'd have to go back to peak MSN under Luis Enrique to the last time Messi had proper consistent goal-scorers across a whole season.

Nowadays at PSG, it's expected that he's gonna score less. That being said, yes, his finishing has been off, and you can see he's quite frustrated by it.

But I think it's a combination of less focus on finishing, and also a lot of bad luck (and maybe a bit of a mental block too).
The luck element is real considering how many posts and near misses he's had, even last season.
Perhaps, he's getting all of his bad luck out of the way now, so that when the world cup starts, he'll be ready to light it up.  

Also, if you've noticed, he rarely ever gets into those positions from outside of the box where he can curl it in. Again, that's because his role and his team are different.

The thing is, when you've reached the heights that Messi has reached, there is no where to go but down. That is the truth.
91 goals in a calendar year, 50 goals in a league season...lol
We shouldn't expect that, nor anything even near it, especially 10 years later.

[danyjr]

Good point, but yeah that's what I meant too. He's just looking more human but still a top player.

[Harmonica]

First player to score 700 official senior level club goals.

700 Messi
699 Cronaldo
670 Pele
652 Müller
625 Puskas

Also holds records of

672 Most club goals for single club (Barcelona)
79 Most club goals in a year (2012)
73 Most club goals in a season (11-12)

[Myesyats]

wtf is this camera work?

This angle is cold af pic.twitter.com/k8dLBt9bQc

— Sam (@Fcb_s_a_m) September 18, 2022

[Harmonica]

What's with goal keepers turning into Yashin's against Messi? It's either that or a record number of posts, that's his PSG career. Again unlucky not to score a hat-trick.

[El Gunner]

that's his fault for not blasting that into the net and trying to be cute

[Myesyats]

imagine he got injured before the WC because of pitchside stewards

[Harmonica]

^

Career 90th goal for Argentina, including 10 this year, which is his second highest after 12 goals in 2012.

[Myesyats]

His finishing is still incredible when he cares/gives a shit. I dont even have a Messi shirt currently, will get Argentina's away with his name on it for the WC to support him even though they're in the group with us!!!

[farfan]

Friendssi prolific in friendlies as usual Looking forward to his 0 goals in the World Cup and the plethora of heatmaps posted by his fans to convince us that he's actually a central midfielder for Argentina and that goals shouldn't be expected of him.

[_LMG_10_]

Looking forward to his 0 goals in the World Cup

They said the same thing about him before the 2014 world cup and he did this in the first match:




By the way, he has 9 goals in his last 3 matches for Argentina I believe lol

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