{"id":396561,"date":"2011-04-25T13:14:59","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T13:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/25\/barcelona-star-lionel-messi-reaches-landmark-goal-tally\/"},"modified":"2011-04-25T13:14:59","modified_gmt":"2011-04-25T13:14:59","slug":"barcelona-star-lionel-messi-reaches-landmark-goal-tally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/25\/barcelona-star-lionel-messi-reaches-landmark-goal-tally\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona Star Lionel Messi Reaches Landmark Goal Tally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"68\">Welcome to Ghanasoccernet.com, Ghana&#8217;s most authoritative football news website.<\/p>\n<div readability=\"7\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/623d528amessi.jpg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27845\" title=\"Barcelona star Lionel Messi reaches landmark goal tally\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/623d528amessi.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"Lionel Messi became the first player to score 50 goals in a Spanish season as Barcelona beat Osasuna 2-0 ver the weekend.\" width=\"226\" height=\"282\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Messi (back) celebrates his landmark goal with a lift from Dani Alves<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Lionel Messi became the first player to score 50 goals in a Spanish season as Barcelona beat Osasuna 2-0 ver the weekend.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Messi\u2019s strike three minutes from time and David Villa\u2019s 24th-minute opener ensured Barca maintained their eight-point La Liga lead over Real Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>A Gonzalo Higuain hat-trick helped Real to a 6-3 rout at Valencia.<\/p>\n<p>The top-two rivals will meet on Wednesday in the first leg of their Champions League semi-final at the Bernabeu.<\/p>\n<p>Barca\u2019s hopes of a Treble were ended when Cristiano Ronaldo\u2019s extra-time goal earned Real a 1-0 victory over the Catalans in Wednesday\u2019s Copa del Rey final.<\/p>\n<p>But Pep Guardiola\u2019s side put that disappointment behind them to move a step closer to their third consecutive league title with five games left to play.<\/p>\n<p>Villa\u2019s 18th goal of the season sent Barca on their way to the three points \u2013 the Spain international stabbing home a Jeffren Suarez left-wing cross to the far post.<\/p>\n<p>Guardiola had rested many of their first-team regulars, including Messi who was named on the bench.<\/p>\n<p>But he replaced Villa in the 58th minute and he rolled in his team\u2019s second of the night to reach his landmark tally and kill off Barca\u2019s relegation-threatened opponents\u2019 challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Messi had equalled the previous best mark of 49 goals scored by Real Madrid\u2019s Hungarian legend Ferenc Puskas when he netted in the league 1-1 draw against Real last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The Argentine superstar has netted 31 in La Liga, nine in the Champions League, seven in the Copa del Rey and three in the Spanish Super Cup.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: BBC<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/623d528amessi.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read the original post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/ghanasoccernet.com\/2011\/04\/barcelona-star-lionel-messi-reaches-landmark-goal-tally\/\" title=\"Barcelona Star Lionel Messi Reaches Landmark Goal Tally\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Barcelona Star Lionel Messi Reaches Landmark Goal Tally<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Welcome to Ghanasoccernet.com, Ghana&#8217;s most authoritative football news website. Messi (back) celebrates his landmark goal with a lift from Dani Alves Lionel Messi became the first player to score 50 goals in a Spanish season as Barcelona beat Osasuna 2-0 ver the weekend. Messi\u2019s strike three minutes from time and David Villa\u2019s 24th-minute opener ensured Barca maintained their eight-point La Liga lead over Real Madrid. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":396540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-396561","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Barcelona Star Lionel Messi Reaches Landmark Goal Tally - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/25\/barcelona-star-lionel-messi-reaches-landmark-goal-tally\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Barcelona Star Lionel Messi Reaches Landmark Goal Tally - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Welcome to Ghanasoccernet.com, Ghana&#039;s most authoritative football news website. 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