The FIFA Ballon d’Or winner has hailed Barca’s victory over Real Betis, claiming that the game against Betis while being away from home is never easy to win.
The game against Real Betis always proves to be difficult for the Catalan giants and even over the weekend La Blaugrana only won 2-1 at the end of the day.
However, the two goals scored by Barcelona both came with the help of the Argentinean maestro, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Lionel-Messi-c22296, who only needed two more goals to break Gerd Muller’s all-time goal-scoring record in a single calendar year.
The http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Barcelona-c38604 star had 84 goals before the game against Betis, and he only needed two more goals in order to break Gerd Muller’s goal-scoring tally of 85 in a single year.
Messi had the chance to break Muller’s record during the game against Benfica in the Champions League, but a knock on his left knee saw him being stretchered off and many thought that he might not make a comeback before New Year.
However, Messi made a comeback over the weekend and managed to do it in style as he scored a brace in order to help Barcelona take all three points, and also to take his goal-scoring tally above Gerd Muller.
Messi commented on the game against Real Betis and claimed that it was difficult as it always has been whenever Barcelona travel away to play them.
“Betis are a good team and it was an important victory, because it’s really hard to win here.”
“We went ahead early and Betis created chances, but we also could have scored more goals.”
The Argentinean star also commented on the upcoming FIFA Ballon d’Or award and he backed his Barcelona team-mate, Andres Iniesta, for the prestigious honour as the Spanish star managed to help http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Spain-c3011 win the Euro 2012 and also helped Barcelona win the Copa
del Rey along with the FIFA Club World Cup.
“If Iniesta wins it, it will be totally deserved and it would make me very happy. It’s a title for the whole team.”
The three players in contention for the prestigious honour are Lionel Messi, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Cristiano-Ronaldo-c9629 and Andres Iniesta.
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