Lionel Messi breaks Gerd Muller’s 1-club scoring record in victory

No footballer has scored more goals for one club in Europe’s top five leagues than Lionel Messi.

The Argentine scored his La Liga-leading 17th goal of the campaign and Barcelona‘s fourth Sunday at Real Sociedad to give him 366 tallies for the Catalan giant, one better than German legend Gerd Muller managed for Bayern Munich.

Messi, 30, needed just 401 league matches to reach the record compared to Muller’s 427, and Sunday’s dazzling free-kick was a fitting emblem for a celebrated career rife with inexplicably good finishes.

With the 4-2 come-from-behind victory against the Basques at the Anoeta Stadium, Barcelona reestablished its nine-point advantage over second-place Atletico Madrid while maintaining Ernesto Valverde’s unbeaten debut Catalan campaign.

After Willian Jose and Juanmi gave the host a shock two-goal advantage inside 35 minutes, La Blaugrana’s near-spotless La Liga season hung in the balance before Paulinho cut the margin in half minutes before the break. Sociedad’s hopes of a second win in nine were dashed after the interval when Messi’s dead-ball finish followed Luis Suarez‘s 21-minute brace to give Barcelona five league wins on the bounce.

The win was Barcelona’s …read more

Source: https://www.thescore.com/news/1467405