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 

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

Real Madrid one win away from 32nd La Liga title as both Ronaldo and Messi set Spanish league top goals scorers record to 43.

Real Madrid recover from champions league semi-final defeat and moved closer and close to La Liga Championship after 3-0 win over Sevilla to end Barcelona three years dominance.  Cristiano Ronaldo scored his 43rd league goal and 57th in this season. The goal was followed by a brace from Karim Benzema. 

Real Madrid vs Sevilla video highlights all goals

Real Madrid vs Sevilla 3:0 GOALS HIGHLIGHTS by maidb7abc

Later defending champion Barcelona FC under Tito Vilanova earned a massive 7-0 victory over Rayo Vallecano, a brace from Lionel Messi to tally La Liga goals to 43 and right on course for pichichi. Both Ronaldo and Messi has registered new Spanish league most goals per season records which was set by Ronaldo last years after he scored 40 goals. Messi add his season goal tallies to 65 goals in all competitions. Bayern Munich’s striker, Gerd Muller scored 67 goals in 1972/1973 season a European top scorers record. Other Barcelona goals came from Pedro Rodriguez two goals, Seydou Keita and Thiago Alcantara and Rober (Rayo Vallecano’s defender) scored own goals.

Barcelona vs Rayo Vallecano video highlights all goals

Rayo Vallecano vs Barcelona 0:7 GOALS HIGHLIGHTS by maidb7abc

Real Madrid set Spanish leagues goals record to 112.

More football records set and broken. With three top scoring strikers Ronaldo, Benzema and Higuan as well as two top goal assistant Mezut Ozil and Angel Di Maria, Jose Mourinho’s club have set new La Liga most goals record of 112 goals. In La Liga the strikers scored 84 goals, Ronaldo (43), Higuan (21) and Benzema (20) but 30 assists from Mezut Ozil (16) and Angel Di Maria (14) alone. Having being denied early championship celebration with Barcelona win, Madrid can clinch their 32nd La Liga title with win against the on form Athletic Bilbao on Wednesday.

La Liga: Video highlights of all 101 Cristiano Ronaldo scored at Real Madrid in Spanish Liga BBVA

Cristiano Ronaldo continued is goal scoring run at Real MadridE reaching a century and smashing Ferenc Puskas record. He netted 101 goals in just 92 appearance while Ferenc Puskas netted 100 in 105 games and Alfredo Di Stefano scored 100 in 115 matches.

His goal scoring spree started in 2010 against Deportivo La Coruna and went on to score 26 goals in La Liga 2009-2010, in 2010-2011 he break La Liga goal scoring record in one season with 40 goals and 2011-2012 he is right on course to set another new record, with 35 goals and 9 games before the league end this season.He has already scored 44 goals this season including 35 goals in Spanish League. Among these goals, there are six La Liga hat-trick.

Ronaldo scored 118 goals for Manchester United between 2003 and 2009 in 292 appearances, 84 of which in 157 Premier league appearances. He scored his first in FA cup in 2004. The Portuguese international have been involved in rumour move to Chelsea for £80m combined price Ronadlo-Higuan . The blues are looking to building a new squad for next season.

szólj hozzá: All CR7 101 Goals in La Liga

La Liga: Cristiano Ronaldo score double with Karim Benzema and stay in touch with Lionel Messi for Pichichi and Golden boot trophy

Real Madrid recovered from two consecutive 1-1 draw with Malaga and Villarreal and secured a 5-1 win over Real Sociedad. All three Real Madrid top scorers were on target with Karim Benzema and Cristiano Ronaldo score two goals each and Gonzalo Higuaín scored one.  Cristiano Ronald level goals with Lionel Messi and keep Pichichi and Golden boot trophy open for any one of the two as they make a huge gap with other top scorers in Europe.

It was nice game for Jose Mourinho as he get opportunity to rest his top strikers ready for first-leg Champions League tie against APOEL Nicosia on Tuesday which they would like to finish the tie before second match.

Ronaldo became the fastest goal scorer to reach 100 Spanish league goals. He scored 101 goals in 92 games (1.098goals/game), 13 games less than Ferenc Puskas who score 100 in 105 games (0/952goals/game. Alfredo Di Stefano  score 100 goals in 115 games (0.87goals/game. The ratiodid with 115Real Madrid lead the La liga log by 6 points Barcelona on second spot, the two will meet at Nou Camp on 22 April for El Classico.

Real Madrid vs Real Sociedad all goals summary

Gonzalo Higuaín (6')   1-0

Cristiano Ronaldo (32')   2-0

Karim Benzema (40')   3-0

Xabi Prieto (41')   3-1

Karim Benzema (49')    4-1

Cristiano Ronaldo (56')   5-1

Real Madrid vs Real Sociedad video highlights all 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

Real Madrid overcome Real Zaragoza with 3-1 win to go seven points clear at La liga summit after Barcelona drew 0-0 with Villarreal.

Real Madrid responded well to Copa del Rey exit with fight back from one goal behind to win the La liga tie against Real Zaragoza 3-1 at the Bernabeu, thanks to goals from Kaka, Cristiano Ronaldo and Mezil Ozil.

Earlier Angel Lafita put Zaragoza infront at 11th minute before the special one club cruise to comfortable win and goes seven points clear at La Liga summit. La Liga champions, Barcelona has the opportunity to cut Real Madrid lead back to form five points but they failed to beat struggling Villarreal. Real Madrid stay top with 52 points and four more goals difference than Barcelona at second place with 45 points after 20 matches.

Man of the match

Villarreal goalkeeper, Diego Lopez inspired his club and he was top man of the match and goal.com gave him 8.5 points. Diego Lopez denied Lionel Messi and his accomplices to earn the deserved one point against UEFA champions. Though the host was doing better in most position had better position 35% than most team against Barcelona.

Real Madrid vs Real Zaragoza goals summary

Lafita 0-1 (11')
Kaka 1-1 (32')
Cristiano Ronaldo 2-1 (49')
Mesut Ozil 3-1 (56')

La liga results and fixtures
Espanyol vs Mallorca 1-0
Athletic Bilbao vs Rayo Vallecano 3-2

Real Madrid vs Real Zaragoza video highlights

szólj hozzá: Real Madrid 3-1 Zaragoza

Copa del Rey quarter final video: Barceloana win 2-1 to level 86 wins each in fourth El Clasico of 2011-2012 as Ronaldo, Puyol and Abidal score

Barcelona equal Real Madrid record wins in El Clasico

Real Madrid faced Barcelona in Copa del Rey quarter final at Santiago Bernabeu, a fourth El Classico of 2011-2012 season and failed to defend their head to head record as Barcelona won 2-1 to level El Clasico record to 86 each after the encounter after 218 meetings. So far this season the clash of Spain giant club can occur six times this season, second leg Copa del Rey quarter final and remaining La Liga encounter. Six encounters will be a record meeting of Los Blancos and Catalans. 
Real Madrid vs Barcelona 12 minutes video highlights

There is also possibility of more Real Madrid vs Barcelona matches if they meet in Champions league. Maximum possible encounters are 9, but the ninth can only occur if European Super cup final which won’t occur this season because for that to occur one club have to be champions of Champions league and another champion in Europa cup. Fantastic news football records can be made today and this just add more flavour to this best El Clasico could be.

Lionel Messi El Classico records delayed

Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo were important players in the encounter and each tried to prove his wealth. Messi has scored 13 goals in El Classico one less than Cesar though Real Madrid players Di Stefano and Raul, have scored more. Ronaldo opened the score in eleventh minutes but Barcelona levelled the score through Carles Puyol and later Eric Abidal fired a decisive goal on 77 minutes.

Real Madrid vs Barcelona - Cristiano Ronaldo 1-0 (11')

Real Madrid vs Barcelona - Carles Puyol 1-1 (49')

Real Madrid vs Barcelona - Eric Abidal 1-2 (77')

Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi leading La Liga top scorers

Real Madrid are going to the El Classico with 5 point advantage in La Liga thanks to Ronaldo who has scored 2 more goals than Lionel Messi in La Liga this season and the clash could easily change these La Liga top scorer stats. Mourinho might miss the service of Angel Di Maria who leads La Liga with most goals assists while Barcelona manager Pep Guardiola FIFA Men’s Football Coach of the Year have Jose Pinto between the post and Pep label cup tie as crucial. It an important clash that will see change in the number of trophies between the two clubs. Real Madrid has won 73 trophies and Barcelona 70 and Athletic Bilbao follow with only 32 trophies.

Real Madrid starting lineup: Casillas, Ramos, Carvalho, Pepe, Coentrao, Alonso, Diarra, Altintop, Ronaldo, Benzema, Higuain.

Barcelona starting lineup: Pinto, Puyol, Abidal, Alves, Pique, Fabregas, Iniesta, Xavi, Busquets, Messi, Sanchez.