FOOTBALL - FC Barcelona play at Bayern München on Tuesday. Lionel Messi has scored in the most cities in the Champions League and can expand his record by scoring in the Allianz-Arena tonight. See below our infographic of Messi’s goals per stadium in the Champions League main tournament. By clicking on the image, you get to the interactive part and select the countries or stadiums he has scored.
Hint: deselect Camp Nou to get a view of all his away goals in the Champions League.
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FOOTBALL - Lionel Messi has scored against 18 of the 19 opponents in La Liga in the last 18 matchdays. He can complete the set by scoring against Celta de Vigo on Saturday. Check out below how Messi conquered La Liga.
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FOOTBALL - On Sunday Lionel Messi led FC Barcelona to a 3-1 victory over Rayo Vallecano with two goals and one assist. Messi has now scored in 18 successive league matches for FC Barcelona.
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FOOTBALL - On Tuesday, Real Madrid reached the Copa del Rey final for a record breaking 38th time, by beating FC Barcelona 3-1 at Camp Nou.
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FOOTBALL - Lionel Messi needs one more goal to equal Alfredo Di Stéfano’s all-time goalscoring record in official El Clásico matches and the Argentine ace will be looking to score that goal when FC Barcelona travel to Real Madrid for their Copa del Rey quarterfinal encounter on Wednesday, 30 January.
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FOOTBALL - Lionel Messi, fresh off his Ballon d’Or winning night, can now focus on this weekend’s match at Málaga CF and raising up his career goal tally even further. The FC Barcelona star needs four goals to reach 200 in La Liga, a platform that only seven players in history have reached.
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FOOTBALL - Still dizzy from Lionel Messi’s goalscoring avalanche in 2012? Our own Rick Thomson has sorted the pile and shows you what he did and how he did it. Where in the world he was and which opponents he was playing. Which body parts he used. And much more. Click Read More to see (part of) our Mega-Infographic and then click on the graphic to enable ALL of its interactive features.
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FOOTBALL - Lionel Messi scored once in FC Barcelona’s 3-1 La Liga win at Real Valladolid to end his year tally on 91 goals for club and country. Check out some stats on this incredible number of goals.
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FOOTBALL - When comparing three of the biggest profile players in today’s game of football, Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Radamel Falcao it becomes apparent they go on scoring streaks for club and country during certain months. December and January are where Falcao’s average jumps up. Springtime is all Messi and Cristiano’s leading month of October is just behind us. Click Read More and then click on the Infographic to enable its interactive features.
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FOOTBALL - Lionel Messi scored goal number 89 and 90 in this calendar year, as Barcelona beat Atlético Madrid 4-1 on Sunday.
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FOOTBALL - Radamel Falcao has scored 40 La Liga goals since his arrival at Atlético Madrid in the summer of 2011. During that span, only two players have outscored the Colombian - Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. Falcao is coming off a five-goal performance against Deportivo La Coruña, a feat Messi and Ronaldo have yet to achieve. We show you the leading La Liga marksmen in the last two seasons.
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FOOTBALL - On Sunday, Lionel Messi once again cemented his status as one of the all-time greats by scoring his 85th and 86th goals for club and country in the 2012 calendar year, surpassing the previous world record mark of 85 by Gerd Müller from 1972.
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FOOTBALL - On Saturday, 1 December, Lionel Messi scored his 83rd and 84th official goals for club and country in the 2012 calendar year, moving him to within one of equalling Gerd Müller’s world record of 85 established in 1972. The Argentine ace still has a possible six matches to play in 2012.
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Lionel Messi scored two goals in FC Barcelona’s away match against Spartak Moskva on Tuesday, meaning that the Argentine has now scored Champions League goals in 19 different cities. He has now equalled the record held by Raúl.
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FOOTBALL - Lionel Messi added two goals to his career La Liga total raising it to 186 and joining Carlos Santillana, the former Real Madrid stalwart in ninth place all-time. Santillana scored his 186 between 1971 and 1989, Messi needed less than half as many seasons (2004-2012). The Argentine’s next target is Edmundo Suárez’s 195 goals in eighth place all-time.