Lionel Messi score 4 to reach 50 goals in La Liga, 72 all competition and close to Pichichi trophy and Golden boot

The Barcelona star score 4 goals to set new high La Liga goals record and the world record of most goals in a season Barcelona 4-0 win against Espanyol at Nou Camp.  Messi has now scored 50 goals in La Liga this season and 72 goals in all competition this season alone. With his 14^th hat-trick in Spanish league puts him ahead of Cesar Rodriguez for 5 goals more. Argentinian has reached 251 in 327 Barcelona appearances. 

Pep Guardiola received the best sent off with hug from Messi following 50^th league goal. In his four seasons with Barcelona, Guardiola has won 13 titles.

The new La Ligachampions, Real Madrid also won 2-1 against Granada with Cristiano Ronaldo score to reach 45 goals in La Liga season, 59 in all competitions and 300^thgoal in Real Madrid jersey. And he raised his record to 111 goals in just 100 league appearances for the Spanish giants. With Messi leading other top scorers by far, he has almost secured the pichichi trophy and Golden Boot.

Excluding penalty kick for 11 Messi and 19 for Ronaldo, Messi would still be leading Ronaldo at 61 goals against 40 goals in all competition. 

Barcelona vs Espanyol goals summary 
Lionel Messi  12'
Lionel Messi (pen)  64'
Lionel Messi  74'
Lionel Messi (pen)  79'

Barcelona vs Espanyol video highlight of all goals 4-0

Barcelona - Espanyol 08.05.2011 Highlights HD by iNfRaS0NiC 

Arsenal striker Robbin Van Persie score 30th EPL goals and close on Premier league Golden boot and a EPL record of 31 goal per season by Shearer and Ronaldo

Arsenal FC failed to take a big step toward Champions league qualification after forced to a 3-3 draw with Norwich City. The gunners are currently two points ahead of Tottenham and Newcastle with the two having a game at hand. Meaning Arsenal can easily surrender third position, and force to fight for fourth position, which is a risk position this year.

With Chelsea hopes for Champions league qualification being dented after 2-0 defeat by Newcastle, The blue could still participate in Champions league if they win the UEFA trophy and force fourth team to drop to Europa league.

Robbin Van Persie close on Premier league top scorer record in a season

Robin Van Persie is just one goal shot to reach Premier league top scorer record achieved by Alan Shearer and Cristiano Ronaldo of 31 goals in 38 games season. Being four goals ahead of Wayne Rooney (26), Van Persie has put himself in better position to win Premier League Golden Boot as the EPL top scorer. So far the striker has won FWA award and PFA award as best player of the year in those categories.

Arsenal vs Norwich City match

Arsenal vs Norwich City goals summary 3-3

Yossi Benayoun 2'

Wesley Hoolahan 12'

Grant Holt 27'

Robin Van Persie 72'

Robin Van Persie 80'

Steve Morison 85'

Arsenal vs Norwich City all goals highlights

szólj hozzá: Highlights [HD]

Lionel Messi score hat-trick to break Gerd Muller’s goals scoring record and be close to golden boot and pichichi awards

Lionel Messi score hat-trick in Barcelona 4-1 victory against Malaga and break 67 goals record set by Bayern Munich's striker Gerd Muller after adding his goal tally to 68 a new European goal scoring record. 

The hat-trick also raised his La Liga goal tally to 46, three more than Ronaldo and more close to the pichichi award and European golden boot. The win keEP Real Madrid waiting for La Liga title and they have to win today to be crowned champions. 

Barcelona vs Malaga goals summary

Carles Puyol (13') 1-0
Rondon (26') 1-1   
Lionel Messi (pen 35') 2-1   
Lionel Messi (pen 59') 3-1
Lionel Messi (64') 4-1

Barcelona vs Malaga video highlights all goals

szólj hozzá: Barcelona 4-1 Malaga Goals

Cristiano Ronaldo receive Golden boot award, score his fourth hat trick of the season and 12th at Real Madrid in 7-1 victory over Osasuna

Cristiano Ronaldo scored his fourth hat trick of the season and 12th for Real Madrid in 7-1 victory over struggling Osasuna at Santiago Bernabeu. Los Galacticos enjoyed 77% possession with 61% (11/18) shots on goal in a game which Angel Di Maria set up three goals and add his goal assist tally to 10 before he was substituted after an injury. Jose Mourinho team has now won 10 consecutive games in all competition, seven in the league.

The world most expensive player is now second on La liga top scorers table with 13 goals after 930 minutes after the world’s best player Lionel Messi with 14 La Liga goals after 840 minutes. But in terms of La liga goals and goals ratio per minute Gonzalo Higuain stand at 11 goals in 565 minutes.

Ronaldo shy away from talking about his performance by rather praise team performance; He said

……..I’m very happy about scoring today, but what matters is the team won……. Without my team-mates alongside me I wouldn’t be able to score as many goals as I have done.

In 2010-2011 Ronaldo score 40 La Liga goals and won the pichichi as well as the European Golden boot and yesterday he received his golden boot award. He became the first play to have won European Golden Shoe award with two different championships (Barclays Premier League in 2007–08 and Spanish La Liga in 2010–11).

Later Barcelona managed to save one point in 2-2 draw with Athletico Madrid and allowed Real Madrid a 3 point lead at the top of La Liga log.

Osasuna have conceded 15 to Barcelona and Real Madrid alone having losing 8-0 to Barcelona at the start of the season.

UEFA Champions League top ten scorers: Mario Gomez and Lionel Messi score hattrick each to go top for 2011-2012 Golden boot award

Lionel Messi and Mario Gomez both scored hattrick on UEFA champions league matches to go top in top goal scorers table and on right track for Golden boot competition.

Lionel Messi scored hat-trick in Barcelona FC 4-0 win over Victoria Plzen while Mario Gomez fired Bayern Munich past Napoli with his hat-trick to hold off Napoli with 3-2 victory. Lionel Messi and Mario Gomez a also leading European league top scorers with 13 and 12 goals respectively.

Cristiano Ronaldo scored a brace in Real Madrid 2-0 win against Lyon with impressive free-kick and penalty kick to reach 100 goals in 105 matches at real Madrid.

Champions league top goal scorers 2011 -2012
Pos	Goal scorer	Team	Goals
1	Mario Gomez	Bayern Munich	6
2	Aílton Almeida	APOEL Nicosia	5
3	Lionel Messi	FC Barcelona	5
4	Seydou Doumbia	CSKA Moscow	4
5	Givanildo Hulk	FC Porto	3
6	David Villa	FC Barcelona	3
7	Alexander Frei	FC  Basel	3
8	Zlatan Ibrahimovic	AC Milan	3
9	Wayne Rooney	Manchester United	3
10	Cristiano Ronaldo	Real Madrid	3

Other top goALs scorers with 3 goals are Roman Shirokov (Zenit St. Petersburg), Oscar Cardozo (Benfica) and Marek Bakos (Viktoria Plzen)

Copa America 2011: Final Preview Paraguay vs Uruguay

Uruguay will have to overcome Paraguay in the Copa America final to lift their 15th Copa America title in Buenos Aires, Argentina on Sunday. If Uruguay win the title they will set record of highest Copa America titles than any other country. Current Uruguay and Argentina stand at 14 Copa America titles apiece.

Champion to represent South America in Confederations Cup
The champion will automatically earn a place to represent South America in Confederations Cup. For Uruguay this will be a series of success after finishing fourth on 2010 World Cup despite controversial hand ball by Luiz Suarez with prevented Ghana to the first African nation to reach World cup semi-final.

Paraguay and penalty shoot-out
Uruguay (La Celeste) have had several wins to reach at this surprise Copa America final but Paraguay have done enough in the play time and progress after penalty shoot-out. Many football fans are in favour of Uruguay to win during play time and Paraguay if the final have to be decided by penalty shoot-out. Paraguay have played 240 minutes in two consecutive games and might be a bit tied compared to their opponents but this could also give them more confident.

Paraguay road to Copa America final
Paraguay have reached final stage without a win in 90 min in group stage or 120 min in knock-out stage, 0-0 draw with Ecuador, 2-2 against Brazil, 3-3 against Venezuela. In knock-out stage they drew 0-0 (0-2 pen) against Brazil and 0-0 (5-3 pen) against Venezuela.

Uruguay road to Copa America final
Uruguay scored 6 goals (3 in group stage and three in knock-out stage) and concedes only two. Winning two and draw two game so far, on the way they drew 1-1 with Peru and Chile, beat Mexico 1-0 before a 1-1 drew with Argentina and entred the final with a convincing 2-0 win victory over Chile.

Paraguay have to be careful with the like of Diego Forlan on set pieces Luiz Suarez ability to shake of defenders, going for ball punched by opponent goalkeeper, Paraguay will have to be on their top form today to reach penalty shoot-out stage.

Top scorer of the tournament

Luiz Suarez and Sergio Aguero are all at three goals mark in the race for tournament top scorer award. Suarez playing alone Diego Forlan, the adidas World Cup’s Golden Ball winner have a high chance to scorer and avoid sharing the award with mmmmmm. The Liverpool player scored all three goals against Peru, one in group stage and two goals in the semi-final. Alvaro Pereira also had a chance to share the top scorer award if he score on Sunday has he his currently at 2 goals mark but only if Luiiz Suarez fail to scorer. Paraguay will rely on Manchester City striker, Roque Santa Cruz who despite being quite in this tournament he can be as bad to Uruaguay lika any other top striker.

All that said, this Copa America edition like many others, have had a lot of surprise and Paraguay can not be completely ruled out. Uruguay have to really fight to earn their 15th Copa America title.

The following awards will be presented on Sunday at the end of the game medal to the runners up, Golden Ball (best tournament player), Golden Boot (top scorer),. And the following awards by tournament sponsors Best Young Player of the Tournament Best Goalkeeper , Top Scorer of the Tournament , Player of the Copa, medals to the referees of the final match, Fair Play Trophy to the winning selection, medal with a replica of the Copa America and finally the Copa America trophy.