Leo Messi was protagonist this Wednesday 24 February in the important triumph of the FC Barcelona in front of the Elche (3-0), in a duel in which it marked two goals and put distance on his excompañero Luis Suárez in the fight by the Prize Pichichi of LaLiga. Now the Argentinian accumulates 18 targets by the 16 of the now forward of the Athletic of Madrid.
The Argentinian was the author of the first goal of the Barça against the Elche, with a golazo marks of the house after a big taconazo of Braithwaite in the minute 48. The '10' opened the marker in a duel that was complicating and that finished with a first quite grey time in which even the conjoint visitor saw him more enchufado, that of not being by the always important German goalkeeper Marc-André ter Stegen, there was one that another goal.
The second so much of Leo was pure magic, but courtesy of the Dutch Frenkie of Jong, the one who drove and served the balloon so that the 'flea' did his work in the minute 73. Of this way, in what it goes of 2021, Messi has marked already 11 goals in the Spanish championship in the seven parties that has contested and now is that it remains him way to finish above the 20 so much solo in The League.
Thanks to the new big performance of Messi, the FC Barcelona reached like this the 50 points and remains third in the table to two of the Real Madrid and to five of the Athletic of Madrid. Next Saturday it will visit to the Seville with the mission to add of to three to follow putting pressure to the ones of up.
Another opportunity to increase the advantage
Also it will present him to the Argentinian another opportunity to increase his register goleador, taking advantage of the mini drought that crosses Suárez, the one who will have to recover feelings after the defeats against Raise by LaLiga and in front of Chelsea in the party of gone by the eighth of the UEFA Champions League.