Lionel Messi going for goal No 700 in Sevilla clash

Lionel Messi going for goal No 700 in Sevilla clash

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He will hit another round number if he nets against Sevilla

Lionel Messi's capacity to maintain top form and make the difference is admirable. And it has led to records falling at his feet one by one. Tonight is another milestone; he can score his 700th professional goal.

He scored the first of those 15 years ago, netting against Albacete in La Liga on May 1, 2005, collecting the ball from Ronaldinho and lobbing home.

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Messi is a one club man and 629 of his 700 strikes have come for Barcelona (0.87 goals per game). The other 70 for Argentina (0.68 gpg). The total is 699 goals in 858 games.

From the 2006-7 season, Messi has always got more than 20 goals in each campaign. In 2011-12, he got 73. His most prolific. And in 2012 as a calendar year he got 91 (79 for Barca). 

Messi has netted 126 doubles, 41 hat-tricks, six four-goal hauls and one five goal 'manita' - little hand. Nothing can stop him. Two in two post pandemic. Sevilla is the next station.

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