Leo Messi He is the best footballer of all time and after two decades in the elite his soccer battery has not yet exhausted. The Argentine genius raised in the Masia Inter of Miamion a European rival, Porto. His goal of direct fault is the 68 of his career, which puts him in the historical podium after the 70s of Skin and the 77 of Juninho Pernambucano. In Barça, of course, it will always be missed, although four years after your goodbye to the club the team has already been a referential in Europe thanks to a new generation of own talents, with the name of the Deicisieteñaero Lamine Yamal at the top of the poster. Among the infinite football virtues of Messi There is one that, without a doubt, Barça still longs for a very significant way: the effectiveness in launching offenses. No one in the successive templates has even been approached at the level of success in the Franco Ball of the Golden Ball, author of 50 goals of that style as culé. Precisely MD published that Lamine Yamal He already begins to feel prepared To assume that challenge as soon as the coach Hansi Flick I decide so. Meanwhile, the statistical comparison in effectiveness when marking of foul is revealing. Since the 2021-22 season, the first without Messi, Barça has only scored three direct free goals: Ferran Torres He did it on September 16, 2023 in a 5-0 to Betis, 867 days after the last goal of Franco coup like Barça de Messi, against Valencia, on May 3, 2021. Then he managed Robert Lewandowski to complete a hat-trick against Valencia (4-2) on April 29, 2024 and, finally, Pablo Torre He signed the only missing goal of Barça in the 24-25 season, thanks to a side throw that did not find auctioneer and ended the ball inside the goal of Seville, on the 5-1 of October 20, 2024.
Messi in his last missing goal for Barça
It is unfair to compare Messi's influence with anyone, although the Barca team, with an exciting batch, is gaining everyone's admiration for its exponential growth, even more because it was already known that it was post-messi it was not going to be easy. This newly finished season has left three titles (League, Cup and Super Cup) and a great offensive game that has resulted in the achievement of 174 goals in 60 games, the third best historical record of the club.
But, of course, there is something that is always susceptible to improvement. And among those issues is the efficacy in the frank coup. Since Messi left, neither in the 2021-22 season nor in 2023-24 there were in Barça goals of direct foul, in 2023-24 2 and 2024-25, 1.
Messi culés foul goals per course
2008-09: 1 Frank goal
2009-10: 2 Frank goals
2010-11: 1 Frank goal
2011-12: 3 Frank goals
2012-13; 4 Frank goals
2013-14: 3 Frank goals
2014-15: 2 Frank goals
2015-16: 7 Frank goals
2016-17: 4 Frank goals
2017-18: 7 Frank goals
2018-19: 8 Frank goals
2019-20: 5 Frank goals
2020-21: 3 Frank goals
Messi's data in Barça, in that facet, are overwhelming: in the 2018-19 Messi season he made a goal 8 direct fouls for Barça, in the 2015-16 and 2017-18 Messi timers he scored in each of them 7 faults in official competition such as Culé, in 2019-20 they were 5, in 2012-13 and 2016-17 they were 4 and in 3 cours (2011-12, 2013-14 and 2020-21).
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In the distribution of the goal by competition were 39 in the League, 5 in the Champions League, 3 in the Copa del Rey, 2 in the European Super Cup and 1 in the Spanish Super Cup. Messi, always Messi, is still there, even with a Barça as exciting as the one who is emerging.
