After a few days looking for him, Lionel Messi finally found his official goal number 700. It was a foul, with a delicate touch on the ball that overtook Herrera’s flight. Osasuna had tried everything to avoid the goal of Messi, who now sees how every time he has to kick a foul a rival stretches behind the defensive fence, as if it were a fallen tree. But the Argentine always ends up finding holes. Now, he’s also long since lost his laughter. Frustrated to see how the League escapes, Messi celebrated the goal with a gesture of rage, starting it all in a nanny, with a gesture with his arm. The 700th goal will not serve to win the League, but it allows him to register his name in the club of footballers who had done so before. He is the seventh. Earlier, strikers who shone in black and white, such as the Czech Josef Bican, the Hungarian Puskas or the Brazilian Pelé, or others who had their goals recorded on VHS, such as Romário or Cristiano Ronaldo, had achieved this.
The last few days have been difficult for Messi, who has asked, for the time being, not to continue negotiating the renewal of his contract, which ends next summer, in 2021. A year after the end of his relationship with the club where has been around all his life, Messi continues to score goals, but he knows that time is running out to be able to win titles.
The Pitxitxi challenge
Messi, who with this goal has already scored official goals with Barça and has given assists in every month of the year, thanks to this strange calendar caused by covid-19, will reach the last day of the League with the challenge to win for the seventh time the title of top scorer, the Pitxitxi award. If he does, he will be able to overcome the six prizes won by the Basque of the Athletic Club of Bilbao Telmo Zarra. The Argentine from Barça, waiting for the last match, has 23 goals, two more than Karim Benzema, who scored two goals against Villarreal.
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