A Champions League love story – Barcelona’s Lionel Messi breaks the competition record with his 19th strike in knockout games.
The Argentine, still only
24, surpassed Raul and Andriy Shevchenko with his late strike away to
Bayer Leverkusen on Tuesday night
The Ballon d’Or winner
scored an incredible 53 in all competitions last term and has already
added an astonishing 37 in 2010-12 for Barca, playing – as always – with
plenty of heart.
So it is perhaps fitting
that on Saint Valentine’s Day, the much-admired Argentine created his
own celebration of love by breaking yet another record, as he surpassed
the mark set for goals scored in the knockout stages of the Champions
League in Germany on Tuesday, with his 19th strike in games played at
the business end of the tournament.
Messi had scored six
against Arsenal and 12 others before Tuesday, to bring up 18 in total,
leaving him level – at the age of just 24 – with Raul and Andriy
Shevchenko, now in their mid-30s and on the verge of retirement from the
game.
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