Barcelona's Lionel Messi hit the crossbar with a free kick to give the Catalans a 3-0 victory over Alaves on Sunday and a good start to their Spanish league campaign.

Messi was close in the first half of the opening opening to the unsatisfactory Camp Nou Stadium (52,356 spectators), but his free kick rebounded from the Alaves' 38th.

Despite the clear advantage of Barcelona in the first half, coach Ernesto Valverde could not shake the visitors' net.

Barcelona waited until 64 minutes to open the scoring through Messi, who preferred this time to a free-kick ground under the wall of the block, goalkeeper Fernando Pacheco, scoring for the goal of 6000 Barcelona in the league, 6.4% of which was signed.

"It was hard to find space in the first half," said Barcelona midfielder Sergio Busquets after the match. But after scoring the goal in the second it became easier for us ».

"Messi has a lot of techniques," he said. "I think it's good to be on our side."

Messi almost scored the second, but the right-hander intervened this time to keep his shot out. 66th minute, the goalkeeper was able to stop Suarez (73) and Felipe Coutinho (83).

Coutinho doubled the numbers with a spiral shot to the right of the keeper from inside the area (83).

After Pacheco successfully repulsed Messi's 89th ball, the latter refused to concede the game without scoring again, passing through the area and conceding Suarez's pass with his own chest before ending in the goal (90 + 2).

Messi had his first game in the league after being appointed captain after talented midfielder Andres Iniesta left for the J-League.

The 31-year-old Messi scored the top scorer of the season with five titles, one more than the legendary figure for Telmo Sarra, who scored the 33rd record for Barcelona with a record.

Barcelona started their season by beating Sevilla 2-1 in the Super Cup.

Messi became the first player to score in 15 consecutive seasons in the Spanish league in the third millennium (385 goals).

Manuel Parreira scored Barcelona's first goal in 1929, Argentine Marcos Aurelio scored 1000 in 1950, Pedro Sabala scored 2000 in 1964, Quinny scored 3,000 in 1982, Guillermo Amor scored goal 4000 in 1996, and Messi scored 5000 in 2009. .

"It was a tough game in the first half, as the defense of Alves was in the end, but in the end we knew how to open the opponent's defense," said Barcelona coach Ernesto Valverde.

Valverde made almost a similar move to last season, but in the second half he took the lead, along with his new compatriot Artur and Chile's Arturo Vidal from Bayern Munich, while Brazilian Malcolm remained on the bench.

"I thought of him as a key but I waited until the second half," Coutinho said. "He is the last player in the squad, like the Frenchman Osman, Dembele, Suarez and (Ivan) Rakic."

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A goal scored by Messi in the Spanish league so far.