Lionel Messi finished his year with an amazing 50th goal scored for Barcelona in the Spanish League match against Alavés. He has finished the year for the club with 50 goals for the 6th time in a row in his career as he allowed for the team to enter at the best standing of the Spanish League as they now head for winter break.
The other 3 goals for Barcelona were scored by Luis Suárez, Antoine Griezmann, and Arturo Vidal respectively as they defeated Alves by 4-1 easily. With this win, Barcelona now has the 3-point lead over Real Madrid in the Spanish League for the 1st place as Madrid hosted the game for Athletic Bilbao on Sunday.
Barcelona currently holds the advantage of 5 goals in the Spanish League over Real Madrid for the tiebreaker between the two teams.
Real Madrid and Barcelona, for the first time in almost 2 decades drew a 0-0 game last Wednesday for the Spanish League.
Griezmann of Barcelona said, “We had played a game only a few days ago and we were feeling a bit tired. Still, we played a really good match. Now we definitely deserve some rest time. We will try our best to be better when we make a comeback to the season. We know we can still improve.”
This is the last round for the year 2019 before the Spanish League goes into winter break and resumes in the 1st week of 2020.
For Messi, this was the 9th year where he had finished the year for his club and his country with his 50 goals; 45 of them for Barcelona and 5 for Argentina. He has managed to reach this 50-goal mark every year since the year 2010 with expectations for 2013 when he managed 45 goals. His highest goal mark for year-end is 91 goals which he scored back in 2012.
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