Messis records Champions League top scorer: 74 La Liga top scorer: 253 Barcelonas top goalscorer: 368 Most goals in a La Liga season: 50 Most goals in a season: 73 Most consecutive La Liga matches scored in: 21 Most Ballon dOr titles: 4 Most goals in a single European Cup game: 5 (joint with Luiz Adriano) Most European Cup top scorer awards: 4 (with Gerd Muller) Most goals in Clasicos: 21 Most La Liga hat-tricks in a season: 8 Most goals in Club World Cup: 4 (held jointly with Denilson) Most goals in a calendar year: 91 It is the 27-year-olds second major record in four days, having scored a landmark 253rd Spanish top-flight goal with a hat-trick against Sevilla on Saturday. Both teams finished with 10 men on Tuesday, Rafinha sent off for two bookable offences 20 minutes from time before Apoel Nicosias Joao Guilherme followed him 14 minutes later, also for a second booking. It was Messis 28th Barcelona hat-trick, and his fifth in the Champions League. The Argentina international now has 74 Champions League goals in 91 appearances in the competition. Group F Pld Won Pts Paris St-Germain 5 4 13 Barcelona 5 4 12 Ajax 5 0 2 Apoel Nicosia 5 0 1 Rauls 71 goals came in 142 games. Real Madrids Cristiano Ronaldo, who is expected to line up at Basel on Wednesday in the competition, has 70 goals. Barcelona had already qualified for the knockout stages before their visit to Cyprus. Luis Enriques side are second in Group F with one game to go. But they will advance to the last 16 as group winners if they beat current group leaders Paris St-Germain at the Nou Camp on 10 December.
Posted on: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 22:34:37 +0000