DBasia.news – Barcelona star, Lionel Messi, finally won the same record as Raul Gonzales and Cristiano Ronaldo when competing against Slavia Prague, Thursday (10/24) AM. The goal that helped Barcelona win 2-1 from Slavia Prague managed to make him score into 33 clubs in the Champions League.
Based on researches, the 33 clubs that have been uprooted by Lionel Messi in the Champions League come from 16 countries. England is the country with the most clubs. There are six clubs that has been hacked by La Pulga. They are Arsenal, Manchester City, Manchester United, Chelsea, Tottenham Hotspur, and Liverpool.
Behind England is Germany. A total of five clubs from this country have been uprooted by La Pulga in the Champions League. The five are Bayern Munich, Bayer Leverkusen, VfB Stuttgart, Borussia Moenchengladbach, and Werder Bremen. The representatives of Italy are only three clubs, namely AC Milan, Juventus and AS Roma.
Other clubs that have been conceded by Lionel Messi in the Champions League are Ajax and PSV Eindhoven (Netherlands), Viktoria Plzen and Slavia Prague (Rep. Czech), Olympique Lyon and Paris Saint-Germain (France), Celtic FC and Rangers FC (Scotland) ), Dynamo Kyiv and Shakhtar Donetsk (Ukraine), Panathinaikos and Olympiakos (Greece), FC Kobenhavn (Denmark), Sporting CP (Portugal), FC Basel (Switzerland), BATE Borisov (Belarus), Spartak Mosvka (Russia), APOEL (Denmark) Cyprus), and Real Madrid (Spain).
Among the 33 clubs, the most often uprooted by Lionel Messi in the Champions League is Arsenal. There have been nine goals recorded by La Pulga in the Gunners’ goal in seven meetings. Next there are AC Milan and Cetic FC, who are both stuffed with eight goals.
Throughout his work in the Champions League since 2004-05, there are 41 clubs that he has faced with Barcelona. That is, so far only eight clubs have been able to get away from the safety of La Pulga. They are Atletico Madrid, Borussia Dortmund, Inter Milan, FC Schalke 04, Levski Sofia, Rubin Kazan, Benfica, and Udinese.
Among the eight clubs, the most challenging to beat is Inter Milan. La Pulga has always failed to score goals despite having faced the Italian club seven times in the Champions League scene.
Behind I Nerazzurri, the clubs that has also made Lionel Messi very curious is Rubin Kazan, Atletico Madrid and Benfica. The three of them has never been conceded by La Pulga in four meetings.