He was already destined to be the best. And yet, somehow, he continues to be able to scale new heights and surprise you in ways you didn’t even think possible. Messi hit three goals at Real Zaragoza, his second hat-trick in as many league games, to take his tally to 34 in all competitions and 11 … The teenager - whose full name is Rodrygo Silva de Goes - completed his 'perfect' hat-trick as he poked in with his right foot to cap a crushing 6-0 win. Lionel Messi broke yet another record by hitting his 35th La Liga hat-trick on Saturday as Barcelona thrashed Real Mallorca 5-2 to keep pace with Real Madrid at … ITV4 showed Barcelona v Betis live, free to air. - Lionel Messi has scored his 50 hat-trick in his career, 44 of them for Barcelona. The Fiver: sign up and get our daily football email. Lionel Messi broke yet another record by hitting his 35th La Liga hat-trick as Barcelona thrashed Real Mallorca 5-2 to keep pace with Real Madrid at the top of the table. Messi scored a hat-trick, his 51st. They were too. "Normally if you score a hat-trick you frame it. He has now won 333 times in primera, a solitary victory behind Iker Casillas’s all-time record. Lionel Messi broke yet another Barcelona record as he scored a stunning hat-trick in a superb 4-1 win at Real Betis, sending Ernesto Valverde's men 10 points clear at the top of La Liga. As if what he does can be quantified. Barcelona and 3 for Argentina. For both, the scoring explosion came at their 5th season I thought it was a goal of the month competition”. If that can be problematic at times – and it is – it’s hard not to be drawn into it. “I’m grateful,” he said later. Lionel Messi broke yet another record by hitting his 35th La Liga hat-trick on Saturday as Barcelona thrashed Real Mallorca 5-2 to keep pace with Real Madrid at … This is why, while you’d think it might be boring or uninspiring after a decade and a half, it is anything but. López, 6ft 2in, hadn’t even been far off his line, but he had been beaten for a fourth time, three of them by Messi. A Hat Trick for Messi. Go watch the video.”, There were echoes there of Pep Guardiola’s advice from the press room, years ago now: “Don’t write about him, don’t try to describe him, just watch him.”. He has played for 14 seasons, has 546 goals in 629 games, 0.86 goals per game, 210 assists, 446 wins, 30 Right across the masthead, is England forward Toni Duggan, scorer of the decisive goal as Barcelona beat Atlético 2-0 on Sunday in front of 60,739 fans at the Wanda Metropolitano – the biggest crowd ever in women’s club football. I … Asked afterwards which was hardest goal, Messi just smiled a little shyly and said: “I don’t know.” The first was brilliant, cracking them up; it might also have been the worst Barcelona scored. Nor do Celta and Huesca’s recent revival ended with defeat to Alavés. “We have no idea when we will be able to go back home.” EN-NESYRI HAT TRICK Youssef En-Nesyri scored a hat trick for Sevilla to beat Real Sociedad 3-2 in a thriller that featured four goals in the opening quarter of an hour. A brace each from Antoine Griezmann and Lionel Messi, coupled with a midfield masterclass from Frenkie de Jong rounded off a 4-0 victory, edging them closer to Real […] This has already been happening since Messi was 23 years old, when he had more goals than Cristiano Ronaldo had done at 24 years old. What he hasn’t realised is you can’t block someone’s path when they’re mentally controlling you like a marionette, and you’re always at a loss when faced with someone who can thread his entire body through the eye of a needle. In all competitions this season he has a total of 39, plus 18 assists, in 37 games. For most footballers, scoring a hat-trick for Barcelona would be the peak of their career. Messi got his third in the 62nd, weighting a perfect 18- yard shot that went in just over the fingers of Ecuador keeper Maximo Banguera. It is a debate which will surely continue to rage long after both players have hung up their boots. My husband has taken, in his middle age, to watching Barcelona soccer with the same fierce devotion that he used to have for golf so I have seen Messi play a lot but just on T.V. And then, instead of a roar, an “oh”. Can you name the 10 teams Lionel Messi has failed to score against? Now he was briefly enlisted as a player to indent most hat-tricks for a Spanish club. “Messi has incredible ability and I love the way that he plays.” – “We know that he has the ability to win a match in half a second and that gives you peace of mind,” Gago told Marca on the subject of Messi in 2018. “In every game I have the feeling that he can make us win at any time. It’s a feeling many have, one opposition coach privately insisting: “Messi’s the best player in history every day. By . Lionel Messi scored a hat-trick and Gerard Pique and Luis Suarez were also on target in a one-sided Catalan derby. Facebook: like our football and sport pages, Instagram: our favourite photos, films and stories, YouTube: subscribe to our football and sport channels. ... "None of us are perfect. Rayo, beatenat Villarreal, do no. He was already destined to be the best. Photo: AFP Even the Real Betis fans were applauding by the end as Lionel Messi scored another spectacular hat-trick to fire Barcelona to a 4-1 victory on … Messi scored a hat-trick, his 51st. Another type of hat trick specific to soccer is referred to as the perfect or golden hat trick. He's asked to score and he does it. This Monday, he probably still hasn’t. You feel lucky to have been around at the same time as him; to be able to watch him every Sunday.” Betis’s Mexican midfielder Andrés Guardado has a picture of his son Maximo with Messi at home. Ronaldo hat trick of assists as perfect Juve beats Napoli (Associated Press) - September 30, 2018 - 2:00pm MILAN — Cristiano Ronaldo was hired by … After Messi completed his hat trick, the Betis fans all over the stadium rose to their feet and applauded him. Messi’s team-mates ran towards him. Lionel Messi scored a hat-trick of the highest quality as Barcelona avenged their defeat by Real Betis earlier in the season to move 10 points clear at the top of La Liga. Hugo Lloris believes Tottenham now boast their own superstar in Harry Kane just as Real Madrid have Cristiano Ronaldo and Barcelona have Lionel Messi. Messi scored a hat-trick, his 51st. Messi wasn’t applauded because he scored three times, but because of how he did it, how often he has done it: he is the first player to score hat-tricks at Betis and Sevilla in the same season. “There’s not much you can do against Messi,” Betis striker Loren Morón said. Which, at least in the short term, is part of the point. López got up and blew his cheeks out, eyes wide: did you see that?! Lionel Messi broke yet another record by hitting his 35th La Liga hat-trick on Saturday as Barcelona thrashed Real Mallorca 5-2 to keep pace with Real Madrid at the top of the table. Jorge Valdano once famously insisted: “Messi … Oh, they saw. EVERYTHING.”. It was a 33rd hat-trick from Ronaldo with Real Madrid. Messi claimed his 32nd league goal of the season with the help of another pass from Suarez to round off the victory and give Barcelona a seventh La Liga title in 10 years. And Sevilla have already felt the force of Messi in 2019. And as Barcelona’s players celebrated, that gave way to something else: soon, thousands of them were chanting Messi’s name, bowing before him. Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal) — 56 career hat tricks #2. Barcelona forward Lionel Messi celebrates during his hat-trick against Sevilla©Getty Images Lionel Messi has racked up a remarkable 51 trebles for Barcelona and Argentina to date and is showing no signs of slowing down. Above the match reports in AS, where Messi was given four stars out of three, there are four squares, four “awards” from each match: the crack, the terrible day, the dandy, and the hard man, each with a 20-word resumé. • Zidane’s back and it’s as if he never went away. For a player to do that just once in a career is impressive enough. MADRID: Lionel Messi broke yet another record by hitting his 35th La Liga hat-trick on Saturday as Barcelona thrashed Real Mallorca 5-2 to keep pace with Real Madrid at the top of the table. Current Players With Most Career Hat Tricks In Soccer History #1. Let’s take a look at more recent times. And we talk about players finding the ‘postage stamp’ with top-corner finishes, but Messi might need us to invent a new term for his hat-trick goal in Seville. Setién said the second was like something off the PlayStation and by the time Messi lifted in his third, slowing everything down, an entire stadium held in suspended animation, watching the ball spinning gently through its orbit and into the net, there was nothing left to say and nothing they could do except stand and applaud. A Hat Trick for Messi My husband has taken, in his middle age, to watching Barcelona soccer with the same fierce devotion that he used to have for golf so I have seen Messi play a lot but just on T.V. Now, that’s a weekend. Lionel Messi did it again. Messi makes the extraordinary look routine," Valverde said. And if that makes it sound one-sided, it wasn’t: 43% of possession was Barcelona’s lowest in a decade and from the Betis dressing room, one voice claimed he had “never seen” them dominated like they had been by his team in the first half. Only Betis goalkeeper Pau López moved, seeing it float by, just there but just out of reach, everything unfolding like a slow-motion replay from an arty TV director. Yet it was Messi who scored that and two more, and by the end it was his name the Villamarín chanted, left with the feeling that if they had taken the game to Barcelona, they could not take it from Messi. “It’s every game, every single one. That is not to say this was a perfect performance, with Juventus striker Alvaro Morata seeing a hat-trick of goals disallowed for offside by VAR, with Barca too profligate at times. The Barça forward was applauded by both sets of fans at Betis – not for scoring three times, but because of how he scored, Last modified on Tue 19 Mar 2019 04.07 EDT. Hat trick definition is - the scoring of three goals in one game (as of hockey or soccer) by a single player. He’ll turn 31 during the World Cup in Russia, so this may be his last chance. Messi scored off a pass from Di Maria in the 12th, left-footing home from close range. There was a fourth move like that too, which ended with him putting the shot against the post in the final minute. Two years ago today, Cristiano Ronaldo scored a perfect hat-trick: right foot, left foot, header. (Update Dec 21: Messi finished the calendar year with 50 goals in total, following his hat trick against Mallorca and his strike against Deportivo Alavés.) I don’t know if even Pelé had this consistency,” Setien said. | Luis Suarez picked up the ball in his own half, and went all the way! | 🐐 |Real Betis fans showing their appreciation of Lionel Messi 🙌Absolute class. Not to have been beaten, but to have been there. Pau has done everything right, cutting out every conceivable angle for a shot and positioning himself perfectly to come off his line and claim the ball if Messi sends a cross into the danger zone. Instead Messi, who started as a professional in the season 2004/2005, began making a name in the season 2008/2009 with 38 goals for F.C. And that made us wonder: how many 'perfect' hat-tricks have the greatest two goal-scorers of this generation - Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi - scored thus far? • Oviedo win, Iñaki, Linares and Doc score. Lionel Messi broke yet another record by hitting his 35th La Liga hat-trick as Barcelona thrashed Real Mallorca 5-2 to keep pace with Real Madrid at the top of the table. However, in the win over Betis, Messi somehow exerts the same mind control on Pau López without the keeper even going to ground. It’s as if a letter has been posted with no stamp, no markings and not even an address, with just the words ‘Lionel Messi, Barcelona’ written in crayon on the front, and he’s still been able to pick it out. Lionel Messi scored a hat trick to give Barcelona a 4-3 win at 10-man Real Madrid in an electrifying and contentious "clasico" match … In the 20th, Di Maria slipped a pass through to Messi, who drove the ball into the top corner from 15 yards. Here are the player ratings: Ter Stegen (6): A calm first half, but had to make one good save in the second half. One hundred on Monday, although unable to mark the occasion with a victory over Getafe that would have really opened up the fight for fourth. Real Sociedad 1-1 Levante, Leganés 0-2 Girona, Athletic Bilbao 2-0 Atlético Madrid, Real Madrid 2-0 Celta Vigo, SD Huesca 1-3 Alavés, Real Betis 1-4 Barcelona, Villarreal 3-1 Rayo Vallecano, Valencia 0-0 Getafe, Espanyol 0-1 Sevilla, Eibar 1-2 Real Valladolid, Inter take the Milan derby spoils and leap over rivals in Serie A standings | Paolo Bandini. “Truth is, I don’t remember anything like this,” Lionel Messi said but nor do they and their reaction said more than words, long abandoned as inadequate. • Valladolid, 1-0 down on 89 minutes, somehow defeated Eibar 2-1 at Ipurua to clinch an absolutely massive victory near the bottom and now look safe. Lionel Messi, by comparison, has 52 career hat-tricks. Messi scored his first career hat-trick on March 10, 2007 - against Real Madrid at the Nou Camp during a 3-3 draw. And at the same time, it couldn’t, instead brought back to something more primitive, almost childish. The ball caressed the bar, landed in the net, and there was a collective intake of breath. The hat-trick against Betis took Messi to 39 goals from 37 appearances this season, and if he keeps up this rate of scoring it’ll be the fifth season in which he ends the campaign with more goals than games. Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo have scored their share of perfect hat-tricks over the years. “When you have been chasing the title for so long you feel a lot of happiness at winning it at last but as well as that we feel satisfied,” Barca coach Ernesto Valverde told reporters. Barcelona’s 4-1 win over Sevilla saw the Argentine break new ground, overtaking Cristiano Ronaldo for career non-penalty goals for the first time. Only this was live. With Messi, though, it is not even vaguely up for debate. The player running through from the halfway line while the rest stood back and let him get on with it, the player turning one way then the other, snapping Marc Bartra in two, sending two players crashing into each other, hurdling a third and then slotting it past the goalkeeper while three opponents lay on the floor, was Suárez, not Messi. This is … Football is wonderfully simple for Lionel Messi. What a hit 🎯#LaLiga pic.twitter.com/T5Zzn18BYD. Jordi Alba arrived, hands on head: what did you do?! In all three of his goals, not only did Messi score, he also built the move, providing the pass to the player who provided the assist – or in the case of the free-kick, the pass to Arthur who was fouled. There were five of them – four for Barcelona, one for Betis – and they were all superb. Did You Know? Lionel Messi … Lionel Messi broke yet another record by hitting his 35th La Liga hat-trick on Saturday as Barcelona thrashed Real Mallorca 5-2 to keep pace with Real Madrid at … Hugo Lloris believes Tottenham now boast their own superstar in Harry Kane just as Real Madrid have Cristiano Ronaldo and Barcelona have Lionel Messi. Disclaimer: Absolutely no copyright infringement is intended. en-nesyri hat trick Youssef En-Nesyri scored a hat trick for Sevilla to beat Real Sociedad 3-2 in a thriller that featured four goals in the opening quarter of an hour. There was no culpability, just compassion. Lionel Messi broke yet another record by hitting his 35th La Liga hat-trick on Saturday as Barcelona thrashed Real Mallorca 5-2 to keep pace with Real Madrid at the top of the table. “I don’t know what to write in this box any more,” Santi Giménez wrote, “what he did had the Villamarín applauding. If you’re in Britain, you could. pic.twitter.com/IJwMhsef1u. This was a great match. Seeing as Ronaldo had played more than 75 games before Messi made his senior Barcelona debut, that’s no mean feat. Of course he has, they’ll think – he’s Lionel Messi, that’s just what he does. ruth is, I don’t remember anything like this,”. After Christian Pulisic's hat-trick against Burnley on Saturday evening a list of 'perfect' hat-tricks have been compiled... 1. He bagged a hat-trick at the Ramon Sanchez-Pizjuan in February in a 4-2 win. Not so much hit first time as coaxed, the ball rose softly and curved gently, granting them time to take it in, inviting them to halt everything and watch it orbiting alone, so they did. He’s also got 20 pictures of himself with Messi on the pitch; the problem, he says, is he hasn’t got the ball in any of them. "We're seeing something unique, something that hasn't been seen in many years. The player who produced a ludicrous backheel assist reversed through a gap that wasn’t there was Suárez too. Eight ridiculous Lionel Messi statistics to sum up his sublime 2018. AFP. Take a bow 👏 pic.twitter.com/z9nAPF1h5i, Nor was it only about Messi. A well-judged chip is always lovely to see when it comes off properly, as we saw with Messi’s Panenka penalty in Barcelona’s Champions League last 16 against Lyon. Maybe even a hint of pride; at least you were beaten like that and by him. Aissa Mandi and Marc Bartra held their head in theirs hands, which is normal for defenders who’ve just conceded but Barcelona centre-back Clément Lenglet did the same, a few metres away. His team-mates pass him the ball, he twirls around the penalty area for a few moments, and … And it is his international record that lets him down, having scored exactly 46 trebles at club level - the same number as Ronaldo. Atlético Madrid’s 2-0 defeat at Athletic on Saturday, their season effectively over in four days, left Barcelona 10 points clear with 10 games to go, Ernesto Valverde admitting: “it’s a big step.” If they do win it, it would be Messi’s 10th league title – and increasingly they are his. A perfect hat-trick is when a player scores three goals in a single match, one with his right foot, one with his left and one by heading the ball into the net. This was a match? After doing it 32 times, it's all become a little routine for Lionel Messi • Happy birthday Valencia. Barcelona’s win against Granada was rather picture-perfect barring an obstacle before the game even began in the form of the injury to Ronald Araujo in the warm-up. EN-NESYRI HAT TRICK Youssef En-Nesyri scored a hat trick for Sevilla to beat Real Sociedad 3-2 in a thriller that featured four goals in the opening quarter of an hour. Lionel Messi crushed Diego López so much someone better check he’s OK, FM19 sims what would happen if Lionel Messi swapped Barca for Real Madrid. His hat-trick goal at Estadio Benito Villamarín is a prime example: a finish that reduces the mere concept of expected goals to a quivering mess; the sort of goal where, were it scored by almost anyone else, we’d have doubts about whether it was deliberate. As the ball went in, all around the ground, the fans – Betis’s fans – began to clap, 54,172 people on their feet. Mostly, it works. Lionel Messi scored a marvellous hat-trick as Barcelona got their Champions League campaign up and running with a 4-0 win over PSV at Camp Nou. Mark Robins vs Oldham Athletic (1992) 2. Messi has yet to hoist a major trophy for his country of birth, a contrast to the laurels he’s brought Barcelona. Messi opened the scoring with a free-kick so good that the commentary on French TV was soon doing the rounds on the net: there was nothing left to say, so they just laughed. I thought it was a goal of the month competition. A hat-trick is a term used when a player scores three goals in a single football match. In football, a "perfect hat-trick" can be achieved by scoring one goal with the right foot, one goal with the left foot and one goal with the head. But he's asked to chase and he does it. Jorge Valdano once famously insisted: “Messi is Maradona every day.” And while the national team would suggest that’s not entirely true, while Europe has evaded them for the last four years, domestically it is hard to disagree. He has now won 333 times in primera, a solitary victory behind Iker Casillas’s all-time record. There were five minutes left of a perfect performance when he took the shot that transfixed them and then turned them. 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