Lionel Messi and Victor Valdes on the brink of breaking records – La Liga News
Barcelona stars, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Lionel-Messi-c22296 and Victor Valdes are on the brink of breaking records for the Catalan giants. The outfit from Catalonia take on the challenge of Czech champions, Viktoria Plzen, in their next competitive fixture.
Goalkeeper, Victor Valdes, has an impeccable record between the sticks for the Camp Nou based outfit. The shot stopper has not conceded a goal in 787 minutes, completing eight games in the process.
He is close to beating Miguel Reinadesde’s long held record of 824 minutes without conceding. Valdes needs 38 more minutes to make the record his very own.
Messi on the other hand, equalled Ladislao Kubala’s record in his last Champions League outing and will make history if he scores on November 1.
Minsk based outfit suffered at the hands of the prolific forward and Viktoria should get ready for the same treatment.
Messi has scored 199 goals for Barcelona first team, and needs one more to reach the magical mark of 200.
The pint sized attacker has started the season in high spirits, scoring 19 goals and 11 assists in all competitions.
Barcelona sporting director, Andoni Zubizarreta, has praised the star player after he came in for some criticism prior to his first-half hat-trick in the 5-0 win at home to Mallorca on Saturday.
The former goalkeeper has pointed out that the http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Argentina-c2841 Captain makes fewer mistakes than any other player in his league.
Messi makes fewer mistakes than any other player," the 126-cap Spaniard was quoted as saying by Sport.
The Rosario born player had come under criticism after failing to score for Barca against Sevilla and Granada.
Messi proved his critics wrong with a well taken hat-trick against Mallorca. His goals came in the space of 17 minutes to secure victory inside the half hour mark.
Interestingly, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Barcelona-c38604’s performances have dropped every time Messi has failed to hit the back of the net.
The Catalan team drew with Real Sociedad, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Valencia-c40863 and Sevilla, and all the results had Messi giving in under par performances.
He won the Ballon d’Or last year and has been touted as the bookmaker’s overwhelming favourite to retain his title.
Messi will be competing against seven Barcelona players and http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Cristiano-Ronaldo-c9629 for the award.
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