6 Spectacular Facts of Lionel Messi After Barcelona’s Victory of PSV

DBasia.news – Barcelona won 4-0 against PSV Eindhoven in the first match of Group B Champions League, Wednesday (19/9). Lionel Messi became the star of Barcelona by his hat-trick.

Messi, who is currently Barca’s captain after Andres Iniesta exit, seems like forgetting the nightmare in the 2018 World Cup when he just scored one goal and made Argentina eliminated in the round of 16.

With three additional goals in this match, Messi scored 7 goals from 6 matches. With the hat-trick, Messi has created 104 goals in the Champions League in total.

Here are 6 spectacular records of Lionel Messi after the winning against PSV Eindhoven.

1. Messi collected 104 goals in the Champions League. This is way higher than PSV’s total goal in the Champions League, 102.
2. Messi made 8 hat-tricks in the Champions League. Messi is the highest hat-trick creator for Champions League of all time.
3. This is the 42nd hat-trick for Messi throughout his career in Barcelona.
4. Messi always scored the goal in 14 consecutive seasons of Champions League, equal to the record of Real Madrid’s legend, Raul.
5. Messi created 8 goals by his free-kick in 2018. This is the highest number in a year.
6. Messi scored the goal to 30 different clubs in the Champions League. He just got behind Raul (33) and Cristiano Ronaldo (32).