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In the matches of the Spanish championship, Lionel Messi, who twice defeated the opponent's goalkeeper, crossed the 300 goals mark in his entire professional career at "Barcelona".
Now the Argentine has a total of 301 goal strikes. The leader of the Catalonia team's attacks scored so many goals in 366 official matches.
This season, L. Messi scored a total of 48 goals in all tournaments in which "Barcelona" plays, and only in the Spanish national league he scored 37 times in 24 rounds.
Of the 301 goals scored, L. Messi scored 206 in the Spanish Primera, 56 in the UEFA Champions League, 24 in the King's Cup tournament, 10 in matches for the Spanish Super Cup, 4 at the Club World Cup, and another goal the forward scored in the UEFA Super Cup match.
In his first goal representing the main "Barcelona" team, L. Messi scored on May 1, 2005, in a match against "Albacete Balompie".
In total, the best player on the planet scored his 100th goal at "Barcelona" on January 17, 2010, in a duel against "Sevilla," his 200th on November 1, 2011, in a Champions League clash with Plzen's "Viktoria".
Throughout the history of the Spanish championship, the most goals scored representing one club in official matches was the legendary Bilbao "Athletic" forward Telmo Zarra - 335. Second place is held by former Real Madrid captain Raul Gonzalez, who scored 323 times. Third place still belongs to another Real Madrid legend, Alfredo di Stefano, with 307 goals. L. Messi is fourth, scoring 301 goals.
After the match against "Granada," L. Messi became the only player in the history of the Spanish championship to score at least one goal in 14 consecutive matches.
By the way, in this season's Primera championship, the Argentine scored a total of 21 goals against opponents' goalkeepers in away matches. So far, Cristiano Ronaldo has been the best at scoring away goals - 23 accurate strikes in the 2011-2012 season.
L. Messi has come even closer to the absolute record of goals scored away in Primera. He still belongs to former Real Madrid star Hugo Sanchez, who scored 99 times away. L. Messi has 94 accurate strikes away.
After yesterday's match, "Granada" goalkeeper Tono rose to the top of the list of goalkeepers most often "victimized" by L. Messi. The footballer from the Barcelona club has accurately sent the ball to this goalkeeper's net 11 times. The same number of times, Diego Alves, now representing the "Valencia" team, has suffered from the "Barca" attacker.
In third-fifth place on this list are Real Madrid captain Iker Casillas, Roberto Fernandez, by the way, also representing the Granada team, and Dudu Aouate from "RCD Mallorca". They drew the ball from their goal net after L. Messi's attacking play 10 times each.
