Messi breaks two records on the night Barcelona stumbled against Cadiz
The "Opta" network of statistics revealed that the Argentine star Messi, 33, broke two new records with Barcelona, despite the exit of the Catalan team, on Sunday, by a 1-1 draw against its guest Kadesh in the match that was held for the 24th round of the Spanish League.
The network stated that Messi participated in his 506th match with the Barcelona jersey, breaking the record of his former colleague Xavi Hernandez, as the most participating player in the Spanish League matches with the Catalan giants.
Opta confirmed that "the success of" Al-Barghout "in visiting Kadesh's net, and scoring his team's goal in the 32nd minute with a penalty kick, made Cadiz the 38th victim in the Spanish League teams that Messi out of 40 clubs visit, in a new record.
The statistics network also indicated that the Argentine managed, in the "Cadiz" match, to score in the sixth consecutive match in the "La Liga", for the first time since achieving the same record in the 2019 season, as Messi scored 9 goals in the last 6 rounds of the current season's league, He raised his score to 16 goals, and made himself a partner at the top of the Spanish League with his former Barcelona teammate, the Uruguayan, Luis Suarez, the Atletico Madrid striker.
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