DBasia.news – Barcelona captain, Lionel Messi showed a poor performance during his training by Quique Setien. This can be seen from the achievement of the blaugrana who currently lag behind their rivals, Real Madrid.
As reported by Marca, Lionel Messi recorded the worst goal statistics of his career under Setien. Throughout this season Messi has scored 26 goals in all competitions, which is the lowest in his career.
Messi continued to fail to score when Barcelona failed to win full points at the headquarters of Celta Vigo. This failure raised concerns in the Barcelona public.
As the match against Celta Vigo adds to Lionel Messi’s poor record. It was Messi’s third match in a row without scoring. In total, Messi is now without a goal in ten of the 16 matches under Quique Setien.
This statistic is worse than when Messi was under Tata Martino. When Martino became coach in 2013-2014, Messi was still able to score 41 goals.
For the record, Lionel Messi almost never scored less than 40 goals in the last 10 years. Messi has only recorded 38 goals in one season, namely in the first year Pep Guardiola coached Barcelona.