Lionel Messi follows increasing his legend in the Spanish football. Once again, the Argentinian has certified like the winner of the trophy Pichichi, that rewards to the footballer with more goals in a season in LaLiga. In this course that already has finish, the captain of the FC Barcelona added 30 goals and left on the way to players like Karim Benzema, Gerard Moreno or to his fellow and ex mate Luis Suárez.
In a marked season by the doubts regarding his future, Leo Messi did not be in any moment to the appointment of the goal and will add to his individual list of winners a new Pichichi, the eighth of his career. It has not been simple, in no case, because had a start of course very irregular in which the goal resisted him , clearly affected by all what was living out of the terrain of game, remembering that shortly before it had sent the famous burofax and the Barça had denied to his exit.
The reasons extradeportivos had a lot weight in his performance, but from the beginning of the 2021 saw a very different image that gave him back the illusion to the barcelonismo. 'The Flea' was more connected that never and the goals fell him of the pocket, surpassing to all his rivals in the classification of maximum artillerymen with the happen of the dates, until remaining like the only big goleador of Spain, by fifth consecutive year.
The figures of Messi in this season
Like this then , Messi added 30 goals in the campaign for the FC Barcelona in LaLiga, for a total of 38 targets in the season, with the five that turned into the Champions League and other three in the Glass of Rey, signing a course in which it went again the big offensive leader of the Barcelona and directed to the team to believe (until does two or three weeks) in the doublet of Glass and League.
In total, the Argentinian contested 47 parties (36 in LaLiga, 6 in the Champions League, 4 in the Glass of Rey and one in the Supercopa of Spain). It finished the season with a feeling agridulce, negative if it wants , and with the doubt of his continuity in the Barça, that still keeps on being an incógnita and that, probably, do not resolve in the weeks to come.
Like this it has remained the fight by the Pichichi
- Lionel Messi (FC Barcelona): 30
- Gerard Moreno (Villarreal): 23
- Karim Benzema (Real Madrid): 23
- Luis Suáres (Athletic): 21
- Youssef In-Nesyri (Seville): 18
- Alexander Isak (Real Sociedad): 15
- Iago Sails (Celtic of Vigo): 13
- Rafa Mir (Huesca): 13
- José Luis Moral (Raise): 13
- Antoine Griezmann (FC Barcelona): 13