How Messi’s 100 European goals were scored
Lionel Messi has scored 100 goals in European foe in 122 games. After examination 3 matches from a bench, he done his foe entrance in a 2-0 better during Shakhtar Donetsk on 7 Dec 2004 – aged 17.
How they were scored
Right foot – 16
Left foot – 80 (including 5 free-kicks and 9 penalties)
Header – 4
Slow start
After 4 goalless outings – and scarcely a year after his foe debut – Messi scored his initial UEFA idea in a 5-0 thrashing of Panathinaikos on 2 Nov 2005. It stays a longest wait for a idea in his European career, yet he has left 4 games but scoring in 3 unbroken spells: Oct 2006–March 2007, March–September 2008 and February–April 2015.
Goal progression
1–20 – 42 games
21–40 – 21
41–60 – 18
61–80 – 23
81–100 – 18
Hat-trick king
Messi shares with Cristiano Ronaldo a European record for hat-tricks: 7 in total, including one four-goal transport (v Arsenal, 6 Apr 2010) and 5 in a 7-0 delight over Leverkusen (7 Mar 2012) – the latter total a initial for a UEFA Champions League (group theatre to final). Last deteriorate he pennyless serve new belligerent by hitting hat-tricks in unbroken appearances, against Celtic and Manchester City.
Peak periods
Those dual trebles heralded a run of 5 true games in that he claimed during slightest one UEFA Champions League goal – 10 goals in all from September–December 2016. He had formerly purebred in a career-best 5 uninterrupted European matches from Sep 2013 to Mar 2014 (undeterred by blank several games by injury) and Sep to Dec 2014. His many inclusive duration was between Nov 2011 and Mar 2012, when he squeezed 10 goals into usually 4 matches.
Most goals opposite (100)
9 – Arsenal
8 – AC Milan, Celtic
7 – Bayer Leverkusen
6 – Ajax, Manchester City
4 – Bayern München , Panathinaikos, Paris Saint-Germain, Spartak Moskva
3 – APOEL, København, Lyon, Viktoria Plzeň, Shakhtar Donetsk, Stuttgart
2 – Basel, BATE Borisov, Dynamo Kyiv, Juventus, Manchester United, Real Madrid, Roma, Sevilla
1 – Borussia Mönchengladbach, Olympiacos, Porto, Rangers, Sporting CP, Werder Bremen
Home and away
The Camp Nou has been Messi’s happiest sport belligerent in Europe, with 55 of his strikes entrance on home soil. He has also netted 5 times during neutral venues in UEFA Champions League finals and UEFA Super Cup games, and 40 goals on a road.
High-water mark
Messi has been during his really best in a beginning stages of this competiton; his 60 in a organisation theatre and 21 in a turn of 16 are both contest records. He bagged 14 goals in 11 games in his best UEFA Champions League debate of 2011/12 – and managed an even some-more considerable rate in 2016/17 with 11 in 9 outings.
Goals by round
Group stage – 60
Round of 16 – 21
Quarter-finals – 10
Semi-finals – 4
Finals – 5
Winning mentality
Messi scoring generally means diversion over for Barcelona’s European opponents – they have won roughly 84% of a matches in that he has struck. He has scored in a losing means in usually 3 European fixtures.
When Messi scores his group have …
Won 52
Drawn 7
Lost 3
Most goals in UEFA bar competition
113 – Cristiano Ronaldo (151 games)
100 – Lionel Messi (122)
76 – Raúl González (158)
70 – Filippo Inzaghi (114)
67 – Andriy Shevchenko (142)