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

Top 5 scorers in Premier league, Spanish La Liga, France Ligue 1, Bundesliga, Scotish SPL and Serie A competition for European golden boot on 25 March 2012

Barclays Premier league, Spanish La Liga, Italy Serie A, Ligue 1, Scottish premier league, German Bundesliga and France Ligue 1 top scorers competition for golden boot on 25 March 2012. 

It is easy to mark strikers that consistently keep scoring in European leagues. Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi are clear contenders fro golden boots but Robin Van Persie and Mario Gomez  also put up a great show challenging the La Liga players. These season fan have seen a series of hat-trick, a word derived from magician hat which used for magic trick.

Barclays Premier league top scorers

1	Robin Van Persie	Arsenal FC	26
2	Wayne Rooney	Manchester United	20
3	Sergio Agüero	Manchester City	17
4	Demba Ba	Newcastle	16
5	*Yakubu Aiyegbeni	Blackburn Rovers	14

Robin Van Persie keeps on scoring but also misses clear goals some times. With his left foot he has scored some goals from difficult angle, remember his goal second goal in Arsenal vs Liverpool.  Ten games remaining, one wouldn’t hesitate to bet him for 30 goals this season in premiership alone.

Top assist

David Silva (Manchester City) 12

Emmanuel Adebayor (Tottenham Hotspur) 11
Antonio Valencia (Manchester United) 11

Juan Mata (Chelsea)10

Robin Van Persie (Arsenal) 9

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Bundesliga top scorers

1	Mario Gomez	Bayern Munich	23
2	Klaas-Jan Huntelaar	SC Freiburg	22
3	Robert Lewandowski	Borussia Dortmund	16
4	Lukas Podolski	FC Cologne	16
5	Claudio Pizarro	Werder Bremen	16

Mario Gomez still lead Bundesliga top scorers with 23 one ahead of Klaas-Jan Huntelaar who score two goals in famous 2-0 win against Bayer Leverkusen.  Bayern is 2 points behind Bundesliga Champions Borrusia Dortmund who have a game at hand.


Top assist

Franck Ribéry (Bayern Munich)11
Juan Arango  (Borussia Monchengladbach)9

Jakub Blaszczykowski (Borussia Dortmund)7
Claudio Pizarro (Werder Bremen) 7
Thomas Müller (Bayern Munich) 7 
Christian Fuchs (Schalke 04)7
Toni Kroos (Bayern Munich)7
Patrick Herrmann (Borussia Monchengladbach) 7

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France Ligue 1 top scorers 

1	Olivier Giroud	Montpellier	17
2	Anderson Nene	PSG	13
3	Eden Hazard	Lille	13
4	Batetimbi Gomis	Lyon	10
5	Pierre Aubameyang	St Etienne	10

*Kevin Gamerio same goals as Pierre Aubameyang
Oliver Giroud, Montpellier striker 20 goals mark. The striker has been crucial in Montpellier success who are currently on top of League one table. The striker has also assisted 7 goals so far. 


Top assist

Mathieu Valbuena (Marseille) 11

Jérémy Menez (Paris Saint-Germain) 11
Eden Hazard   (Lille)11
Michel Bastos (Lyon) 8
Yann Jouffre (Lorient) 8 

Olivier Giroud (Montpellier) 7

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Spanish La Liga top scorers

1	Lionel Messi	Barcelona	35
2	Cristiano Ronaldo	Real Madrid	35
3	Radamel Falcao	Atlético Madrid	19
4	Gonzalo Higuaín	Real Madrid	18
5	Roberto Soldado	Valencia	16

*Karim Benzema same goals as Roberto Soldado
Lionel Messi keep on scoring and sets new record with every goal he score after becoming Barcelona all-time goal scorer. He scored the first against  to rise the bar to 235 goals, clubs new record. Cristiano Ronaldo level with Messi after he scored 2 goals in 5-1 and just five goals shoot from his last year 40 goals mark. Real Madrid victory against Real Sociedad to cut difference to just one goal. The race for Pichichi trophy and European Golden boot award is still very open.

Top assist

Mesut Özil (Real Madrid) 14
Ángel Di María (Real Madrid) 13 

Daniel Alves (Barcelona)10

Lionel Messi (Barcelona)9
Cesc Fábregas (Barcelona) 8

Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid)8

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Italy Serie A top scorers

1	Zlatan Ibrahimovic	AC Milan	22
2	Antonio Di Natale	Udinese	19
3	Edinson Cavani	Napoli	18
4	German Denis	Atlanta	15
5	*Rodrigo Palacio	Genoa	14

* Same goals as Diego Milito

Zlatana Ibrahimovic scored two against AS Roma open three goals gap with Antonio Di Natale. Just keeping himself on form for Barcelona encounter in Champions league.

     

Top assist

Fabrizio Miccoli  (Palermo) 12
Pablo Armero    (Udinese)  8 
Andrea Pirlo  (Juventus) 8
Antonio Cassano (AC Milan) 7
Marek Hamsik  (Napoli) 7
Robinho (AC Milan) 7

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Scottish Premier League SPL top scorers

1	Gary Hooper	Celtic	16
2	Jon Daly	Dundee United	15
3	Nikica Jelavic	Rangers	14
4	Francisco Sandaza	St Johnstone	13
5	Michael Higdon	Hibernian	12

No change on top three top goal scorers in terms of  number of goals once, more. Francisco just score one goal since previous Sports News report. Nikica Jelavic  score one two goals since joining Premier league Everton.


Top assist
Steven Davis (Rangers) 10
Anthony Stokes (Celtic) 9
Nicky Law (Motherwell) 8
Jonathan Hayes (Inverness Caledonian Thistle) 8
Paul Dixon (Dundee United) 8
Francisco Sandaza (St Johnstone) 8

Messi on the verge to level or break Barcelona goal scoring record set by Cesar Rodriguez

Lionel Messi is set to level or break club’s all time official goal scoring record of 232 goals reached by Cesar Rodriguez in 1950s. The Barcelona star has scored 231 and he will fancy a chance to level or break Cesar’s record in La Liga match on Tuesday night against strangling Granada.

This season alone, he scored 31 goals in La Liga, 12 goals in Champions league, 2 goals in King’s cup and contributing 16 goal assists in all these and 45 goals competition.  This season alone he has scored 7 hat-tricks for Barcelona, 5 on La Liga and 2 in Champions league. His recent hat-trick was on champions league were he score 5 goals to became the first player to have scored five goals in one match.

Messi top scoring records La Liga and Champions league

In La Liga, Messi won the pichichi trophy in 2008-2009 scoring 34 goals. This season he is second in top goal scorer list following Cristiano Ronaldo who has 32 goals, one more than Messi. But leads champions league top scorers table with 12 goals and if he maintain his position he will be Champions league top scorer for four consecutive years. In 2010-2011 he set record to be first player to win Champions league golden boot for three consecutive years. Gerd Müller and Jean-Pierre Papin also were top scorers for three consecutive years in Europen club competition before champions league changed it format in 1992. This season he also netted his first hat-trick for Argentina when playing against Switzerland.

 

Barcelona matches in which Lionel Messi score hat-trick

Barcelona 8-0 Osasuna

Barcelona 5-0 Atletico Madrid

Barcelona 5-0 Mallorca 

Barcelona 4-0 Viktoria Plzen

Barcelona 4-1 Malaga

Barcelona 5-1 Valencia

Barcelona 7-1 Bayer Leverkusen

Updates Messi goals record: 
Barcelona vs Granada is live now, Barcelona leading 2-0 20 minutes. Xavi opened the score Messi score the second goal to equal Cesar on all time Barcelona goal score with 232. He also level with Cristiano Ronaldo on 32 La Liga goals this season.

Messi score again to break the club goal scoring record and also top the La Liga goals scorers table. 82 minutes and the score is 4-2 Barcelona. Barca will cut points difference with Real Madrid to five points, but Madrid still have game in hand.


85 minutes, he score another one and it is eighth hat-trick, total goals 234, 33 La Liga goals one ahead of Ronaldo.

Granada got a penalty, Alves red card and the score 5-3.



Barcelona vs Granada goals summary
Xavi (3') 1 - 0    
Lionel Messi (17') 2 - 0  
Mainz (55') 2 - 1  
Guillherme Siqueira (pen) (61') 2 - 2  
Lionel Messi (66') 3 - 2
Tello (81') 4-2 
Messi (85') 5-2 
Guillherme Siqueira (pen) (88')5-3  

Barcelona vs Granada all goals highlights

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)

Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi score their second hat-trick in La Liga and make race for Pichichi post tight

Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi both score their second hat-trick of the season in Real Madrid 6-2 win over Rayo Vallecano and Barcelona 5-0 victory over Athletic Madrid in Spanish La Liga match. 

The race for pichichi and European top scorer is on and tight. Jose Mourinho watched his team recover from a draw and a defeat to score more goals even with ten men after Di Maria red card. Athletic Madrid without their famous top striker Sergio Aguero were total dominated and Radamel Falcao didn't have enough ball to change the scoreline.
Real Madrid vs Rayo Vallecano match video highlights of all goals

1 Miguel Pérez Cuesta 0 – 1
39' Cristiano Ronaldo 1 – 1
46 ' Gonzalo Higuaín 2 – 1
51' Cristiano Ronaldo (pen) 3 – 1
55' Miguel Pérez Cuesta 3 – 2
67' Raphael Varane 4 – 2
73' Karim Benzema 5 – 2
83' Cristiano Ronaldo (pen) 6 - 2

Barcelona FC vs Athletic Madrid match video highlights of all goals

8' David Villa 1 – 0
14' Miranda (og) 2 - 0
25' Lionel Messi 3 - 0
77' Lionel Messi 4 - 0
91' Lionel Messi 5 - 0

Barclays premier league: Sergio Kun Aguero score his first premier league hattrick as Manchester City beat Wigan 3-0.

Sergio Kun Aguero scored his first premier league hattrick and earn Manchester City 3-0 victory over Wigan Athletic. Carlos Tévez could have doubled the lead on 18' by the Argentinean missed a penalty shot.

Sergio Aguero is now ranked second with Edin Dzeko in premier league and European top scorers table both with six goals, second to Wayne Rooney who score his second premier league hat-trick in Manchester United 5-0 win over Bolton.

Video highlights of Manchester City v Bolton 3-0
Sergio Agüero 13'
Sergio Agüero 63'
Sergio Agüero 69'

Santos vs Flamengo 4-5: Ronaldinho Gaucho score hat-trick, Neymar double.

Ronaldinho Gaucho score hat trick

Santos and Flamengo played games of the season, Santos leading 3-0 on 26 minutes. Neymar scored two goals, the first was a fantastic individual effort. But Flamengo managed to launch a successful come back as Ronaldinho Gaucho score hat-trick to give Flamengo a 5-4 win.

Wayne Rooney score hat-trick in 21 minutes: Manchester United 7-0 Seattle Sounders | Video highlights

Wayne Rooney bagged a 21-minute hat-trick as Manchester United thrash Seattle Sounders in United States tour before the start of Barclay's premier league. The rest of the goal were scored by Michael Owen, Mame Biram Diouf, Gabriel Obertan and Park Ji—sung. In another pre-season friendly, Cristiano Ronaldo scored hat-trick in nine minutes to give Real Madrid a 3-0 victory over Chivas Guadalajara.

Tanzanian player, Mrisho Ngassa played for Seattle Sounder on trial and became the first Tanzania to player against Manchester united. The 22 years old Azam winger had once had trial at West Ham United in London.