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In agreement. Leo Messi lives an unprecedented heavenly routine. The Argentine soccer player has been dominating a team sport for more than a decade. Hence the great contradiction. The years go by [32 and the rosarino adds up] and, when he should start living on the memory of his best nights, he feels that he must perpetuate himself in genius. As if he hadn't done everything enough for a club that lives tied to his booties.

The last meeting against Alavés was a new example of this. Barcelona, ​​in front of a rival who went to the most discouraged Camp Nou - he has already won five days without winning - and with a technician, Asier Garitano, increasingly discussed, he only knew how to survive and pray for the appearance of his pantocrator. As much as that win (4-1) could indicate otherwise.

Without any continuity in the game and without knowing what to do the coach with an increasingly irrelevant center of the field -Sergio Busquets, Arturo Vidal and Aleñá formed this time in an unprecedented spinal cord-, every good luck happens by approaching the ball to Messi and that He decides what to do with it . He is escorted by Luis Suarez, two assists this Saturday, and Antoine Griezmann, seven goals already in the League. But there is no trace that allows to follow the trail of this Barcelona.

7 goals from outside the area

Valverde knows well. "Luckily, Messi's goal has come." Yes. Because when Alavés realized that he had only to advance his lines to put Barcelona in trouble in his own stadium, when Pere Pons took a goal and Rubén Duarte sighed for the tie, who had to settle the rebellion to His way was Messi. That is, turning the ball into an indecipherable top for the goalkeeper thanks to that hit from the balcony that makes him different from the rest. Of his 13 goals in this season's league championship, seven have come thanks to shots from outside the area.

«We have a great squad, but with the best player in the world. We do our job. And when Messi sees that the team needs a push, it is always there . Griezmann already knows what the matter is about. That's why each time you understand better with the Argentine, talk more or less. Against Alavés, even, both starred in a frantic transition, colored by the Frenchman with the spur, and that Messi was about to finish in the mouth of goal.

His goal in the second act, however, allowed him to close the year 2019 with 50 goals between Barcelona and the Argentine national team . A record that shows that for six times the Golden Ball has not come the time of twilight. As much as in that celebrated speech of the French Football gala, he ventured to talk about the end. Definitive border impossible to see from its statistics.

50 goals or more, except in 2013

Messi takes six consecutive years scoring 50 goals or more . Namely, the fifties of this year, the 51 of 2018, the 54 of 2017, the 59 of 2016, the 52 of 2015 and the 58 of 2014. There is still more. The Argentine has achieved it in nine of the last 10 years, including the top of 91 goals in 2012, and the slight setback in 2013 (45).

His scoring explosion, by the way, coincided precisely with the advent of Pep Guardiola's Barcelona , a technician who invented for him the position of center-forward liar. In a year, from 2018 to 2019, he went from scoring 22 goals to 41 . The arrival in 2014 of Luis Suarez and the return to the origins of Messi, however, would not reduce the production of a footballer who would look for other paths to follow near the network, although he increasingly lived further from it. Especially thanks to the pitches, luck in which Messi has perhaps become the best specialist in the world already in his thirties.

While Barcelona recreates with the exploits of an unparalleled footballer, Ernesto Valverde continues to look for a way to make his team's game an accomplice of his ten, not a rival anymore . But Messi is increasingly alone.

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