Lionel Messi on Wednesday in the fifth round of the UEFA Champions League scored a goal in a match against PSV Eindhoven and became a record holder.
Playing away in the Champions League clash, Barcelona beat PSV 2-1 and calmly awaits the quarter-final stage of the tournament. The Catalans secured a spot in the next stage earlier - Barcelona secured 4 victories and once played a draw.
The 31-year-old L. Messi's goal against PSV was his 106th in the Champions League. All of them were scored while representing the Catalan club.
Messi set a record and surpassed his main rival, Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo: he became the player with the most goals in the league for one team.
Cristiano Ronaldo, representing Madrid's "Real" team, had scored 105 goals. However, in the Champions League, he has scored a total of 121 goals.
In this Champions League tournament, Messi scored 6 goals in three matches: in the first match against PSV (4-0), he scored three goals, two against Tottenham Hotspur, and missed the matches against Inter Milan due to injury.
Messi surpassed the most productive player of this season's Champions League, Bayern Munich's Robert Lewandowski, who has 6 goals to his name.
L. Messi's goal against PSV:
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