Messi's 10 most important goals at Barcelona
Lionel Messi scored great goals throughout his career, some of them very important for his team. Here are the most important achievements of the Argentinean at Barça.
Lionel Messi scored his first official goal on May 1, 2005 against Albacete, his last goal on May 16, 2021, Lionel Messi celebrated 709 times with the blaugrana jersey: 672 goals were in official matches, while 37 in friendly matches. Now, almost a year away from the Qatar 2022 World Cup, the 10 of the Argentina National Team has many goals to score, but it remains to be seen in which club he will play.
The first, against Albacete
The first goal of this great career, Messi scored on May 1, 2005 to Albacete after assistance from Ronaldinho. A magical touch with his left foot over Valbuena. It was the 90th minute of a match that ended 2-0.
In 2009 to win at the Bernabéu
Messi was seen as a curse for Real Madrid and had even scored a hat trick on March 10, 2007 in a 2006-07 La Liga match that ended 3-3, but that title went to the white team. One goal less, a brace, did serve to amaze at the Santiago Bernabéu on the way to the 2008-09 La Liga title in the season of the treble and in the year of the sextete (2009).
In the 2009 Cup, Messi scored in the final.
On May 13, 2009, Barça won the Copa del Rey by defeating Athletic 4-1 in the final at Mestalla. Lionel Messi broke the 1-1 tie with a powerful low left-footed shot that beat Gorka Iraizoz and celebrated with rage. Barça had not won the title for eleven years.
Decisive achievement to win the Club World Cup 2009
Lionel Messi closed 2009, when he was crowned the best player in the soccer universe, by scoring the goal that gave Barça the Club World Cup title against Estudiantes (2-1). Unforgettable was how he pushed the ball into the net with his shield in the 110th minute of extra time.
To Real Madrid on the road to Wembley (2011)
Lionel Messi scored exquisitely nine years ago and the stage magnified everything, the Santiago Bernabéu witnessed another double on the way to the 2010-11 Champions League. On April 27, 2011, Barça won the first leg of the semifinal 2-0 and put one foot and a half in Wembley. The slalom he made in the 87th minute to seal the 0-2 win.
Boateng and Neuer suffered in 2015.
On May 6, 2015, five years too soon, the Camp Nou experienced one of those magical nights thanks to Messi. With a 0-0 draw in the first leg of the 2014-15 Champions League semifinal against Pep Guardiola's Bayern, everyone was already thinking about the hell of the second leg in Munich when Leo came up with two goals and an assist out of nowhere to put Barça on track for a 3-0 win over Juventus in the final.
The 2015 Cup final again against Athletic.
In the 2014-15 season, Barça was under the command of Luis Enrique who conquered the treble. On May 30, they overcame Athletic in a Cup final played at the Camp Nou that saw another Messi marvel, and a decisive one at that.
La Liga 2019, the tenth of the '10' and this goal that was key to winning it.
This week marked the one-year anniversary of the 2018-19 League won by Ernesto Valverde's Barça in advance. Although he has definitely intervened with his goals and assists to win the 10 Ligas he has in his career, being the author of the goal that gives the title always has a special value. Messi scored against Levante (1-0) making the difficult easy against Aitor Fernandez.
