DBasia.news – Lionel Messi always tries to look better when his rival, Cristiano Ronaldo scores at Juventus. Messi scored with the new Barcelona and had set a record, while reinforcing the rivalry between the two that still continues this season.
The Blaugrana narrowly won 1-0 against Real Valladolid in the 24th week of LaLiga which took place at Camp Nou, Sunday (17/2) early morning hrs. The only goal in the match was scored by Messi’s penalty in the 43rd minute.
The penalty goal carved Messi’s new record with Barcelona. La Pulga has now scored 30 goals in all competitions for 11 consecutive seasons. It all started from the 2008-09 season (38 total goals), after that, Messi scored a total of 47 goals, 53 goals, 73 goals, 60 goals, 41 goals, 58 goals, 41 goals, 54 goals and 45 goals.
With Ronaldo, Messi became the two players who were directly involved in the 25 goals of each team in the league and among the top five European leagues. Their competition to be the best continues, despite the fact that Messi is 31 years old and Ronaldo is 34 years old.
Pichichi or LaLiga’s top scoring title leads to Messi who also won it last season, notching 34 goals. The Argentine superstar currently has 22 goals in LaLiga for the time being.
His two closest rivals, Luis Suarez and Cristhian Stuani, are still far behind with 15 goals and 12 goals in LaLiga 2018-19 – Antoine Griezmann also scored 12 goals.
While Ronaldo recorded 18 goals in Serie A with his new club, Juventus. The Portuguese megastar has no problem adapting to the culture of Serie A and Italy which is famous for its tactically laden games, plus defense meetings demonstrated by Italian teams.
Seeing the level of play shown by the two supermen, their competition will seem to still last for a year or two. The only player who followed them was only the 20-year-old French striker, Kylian Mbappe.
Mbappe has carried out its duties by bringing PSG (Paris Saint-Germain) a 2-0 win over Manchester United in the first leg of the Champions League last 16 2018-19.
Now, it is Ronaldo and Messi’s turn to try to do the same when Juventus faces Atletico Madrid at Wanda Metropolitano, Thursday (21/2) and Barcelona against Olympique Lyonnais, Wednesday (20/2).