Will it be Messi’s last classic? With that unknown thousand of your fans Barcelona, and football in general, have seen the classic that real Madrid won 2-1 and in which the Argentine striker, who ends his contract in June, lost without a score
MESS, with 26 goals, is the player who has scored the most goals in the history of the classics, followed by Alfredo Di Stéfano and Cristiano Ronaldo, both with eighteen goals.
His debut against real Madrid took place on November 19, 2005, at the Santiago Bernabéu, in a match that Barcelona took 0-3 with the goals of the Brazilian Ronaldinho and the Cameroonian Samuel eto’o, his attack partner.
On average, 29 league classics and a total of 45 in official competitions, as well as, individually, one of his eternal rivals, Sergio Ramos, who this time did not play due to injury.
MESS came to play with him real Madrid in a great moment of form. Their number reflects this. Of the 29 goals this year, 19 were in 2021 in three months. However, when his team needed him the most, the Argentine ran out of gunpowder in the largest Spanish football showcase with a global audience on all continents.
The Argentine tried to drive Barcelona on the field, although he was resigned because the defensive errors cost the team two goals. He tried to be the protagonist, made it difficult for the white defense and his contribution, although intermittent, was decisive in the attack.
In the first half he managed to score an Olympic goal from the corner but found the crossbar of the goal defended by Thibaut Courtois, who put a wall over the three sticks that made the Argentine despair.
Almost all of his team’s offensive actions went through the boots. In the first half he was very much associated with Pedri, who, at the age of 18, wanted to make more decisions than those due to his equal age, and in the second he found a squire in the Frenchman Antoine Griezmann, who went to rest. , and the Dutch Frenkie De Jong, almost disappeared in the first 45 minutes.
The heavy rain that fell in Madrid affected the classic and also the contribution of qualified footballers such as Messi, who suffered a lot to overcome the defensive spider web of Real Madrid.
The stranger will now reveal whether this April 10, 2021 will remain in the annals of football as the date of the last classic played by Messi with the Barcelona shirt or if, on the contrary, the Argentine reconsiders the decision he wanted to take last season to leave Barça.