Barcelona’s Lionel Messi will take to the pitch against Sevilla needing two goals to break the Spanish scoring record – for the fourth game in a row.<\/p>\n
The Argentine is one short of Telmo Zarra’s 251 league goals but has not scored in his last three La Liga games.<\/p>\n
Coach Luis Enrique says Messi, 27, is happy at the club despite the forward hinting he might move on one day.<\/p>\n
“I’ve only heard Leo saying that he is delighted at Barca and that there is no problem at all,” Enrique said.<\/p>\n
“I am not interested in the speculation and the opinions. I just hear the message from him that he is happy and proud to play for Barca.”<\/p>\n
During the week, Messi said that he would like to stay with his only senior club but added that “sometimes not everything happens in the way you would like”.<\/p>\n
However his father also played down any talk that the forward, who could have joined Arsenal as a youngster, could leave.<\/p>\n
Barca are in second place, two points off Real Madrid, while fifth-placed Sevilla are only two points behind the Catalans.<\/p>\n
| Messi’s records<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Barcelona’s top goalscorer:<\/strong> 365<\/td>\n| Most goals in a calendar year:<\/strong> 91<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Most goals in a season:<\/strong> 68<\/td>\n | Most goals in a La Liga season: <\/strong>50<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Most Ballon d’Ors:<\/strong> 4<\/td>\n | Most consecutive La Liga matches scored in:<\/strong> 10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Most European Cup top scorer awards:<\/strong> 4 (with Gerd Muller)<\/td>\n | Most goals in a single European Cup game:<\/strong> 5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Most La Liga hat-tricks in a season:<\/strong> 8<\/td>\n | Most goals in El Clasico:<\/strong> 21<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Most goals in Club World Cup:<\/strong> 4 (held jointly with Denilson)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n | –<\/p>\n Source: BBC Sport<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Barcelona’s Lionel Messi will take to the pitch against Sevilla needing two goals to break the Spanish scoring record – for the fourth game in a row. The Argentine is one short of Telmo Zarra’s 251 league goals but has not scored in his last three La Liga games. Coach Luis Enrique says Messi, 27, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":8028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[29,3],"class_list":["post-67475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} |