400 Goals Scored in Total - the New Record of Lionel Messi

Recently Barcelona's legend Lionel Messi has made another record in his brilliant career. After the awesome hat-trick, which he has made in the match between Barcelona and Espanyol, his team won with a 5:1 in the city derby by the 14^th round in La Liga. The Argentinian player now has over 400 goals for the club in both official and non-official matches played. The experts from MessiBest.com provide you with some interesting information about the past match and the performance of your favourite football player – Messi!

Barcelona defended their second place in the standings. As we have already mentioned Lionel Messi scored a hat trick, and then both Gerard and Pedro Rodriguez scored a goal as that was some kind of reservation to regularizing the total ‘blue-red’ domination on the Catalan land. For the 29th time in total in all tournaments Messi managed to score hat-trick, which is a prerequisite to play with a good mood in the match against Paris Saint-Germain from the UEFA Champions League on Wednesday.

The last shot of those 400, Lionel Messi has scored exactly in the door of Kiko Cassia. Pedro helped Messi to ‘form’ the hat-trick. The Argentinian ‘set the tone’ of the attack with a reid to the penalty box, where he headed the ball to the Spaniard. He immediately gave it back to Messi, who made a diagonal kick and checkmate Cassia, achieving the unbelievable score of 5:1.That was the second goal in 372 official matches of the Flea, who has 28 goals for Barca in friendly matches. He is the only player in the history with over 400 registered goals for a Spanish club.

Espanyol didn’t have a single win over their local rival Barcelona in an official game since 2009 when the team won at Camp Nou with a 1:2. Since then, the parrots have achieved a tie of 1:1 two seasons ago.

We believe that the derby Barcelona – Espanyol was a remarkable game for all of you, the fans of Barcelona and Lionel Messi in particular! You were able to relish his outstanding game, which was as great as ever. It was a remarkable game also for those of you, who have decided to place a bet in order to increase his/her both excitement and bankroll! If you have been thinking of betting on a victory of Barcelona, then your soccer picks inevitably have turned out to be right. And we hope you have gained a good enough profit out of it.