Lionel Messi celebrated changing into Barcelona’s highest look maker of all time by scoring twice as his rampant facet crushed Real Sociedad 6-1 away in La Liga on Sunday (March 21) with a shocking group show. Antoine Griezmann opened the scoring by netting in opposition to his outdated membership in the thirty sixth minute and proper again Sergino Dest stretched Barca’s lead shortly earlier than halftime after latching on to a sweeping go from Messi.
Dest struck once more early in the second half earlier than Messi managed a luxurious go from Sergio Busquets and scored to mark an evening in which he overtook Xavi Hernandez as Barca`s report look maker, shifting on to 768 video games with the membership.
Ousmane Dembele struck his facet’s fifth objective of the night time in the 71st minute after a superb solo run whereas Sociedad’s Ander Barrenetxea hit arguably the very best objective of the sport to offer his facet a uncommon second of pleasure.
Messi, nevertheless, had the ultimate say, ending off a flowing group transfer in the 89th minute to attain his twenty third league objective of the season, growing his lead on the high of the scoring charts. The victory took Barca above Real Madrid into second place in the standings on 62 factors, 4 behind leaders Atletico Madrid with 10 video games left to play.
Coach Ronald Koeman delighted as gamers share goalscoring burden
Barcelona coach Ronald Koeman emphasised the significance of easing the scoring burden on Lionel Messi after his facet hammered Real Sociedad 6-1 away from dwelling in La Liga on Sunday with 4 totally different goalscorers.
Messi did handle to web twice to take his tally to 23 league targets this season however fellow strikers Antoine Griezmann and Ousmane Dembele additionally bought on the scoresheet whereas proper again Sergino Dest scored a brace of his personal.
“It’s always important for players other than Leo to score goals. That way it’s much harder to defend against us,” Koeman informed reporters.
The Dutch coach has criticised his facet after plenty of video games this season for not being scientific sufficient in entrance of objective however had no complaints after they scored six instances with 10 makes an attempt on the right track in opposition to Sociedad, who’re fifth in La Liga.
“In a difficult game like this one it’s vital you are effective in the box and it’s also crucial to go in front to ensure your opponents leave you more space. Once we went ahead we really punished them,” he mentioned.
“The most important thing today was the image we gave, it proved that we will go all out to try and win everything we can.”
Barca head into the worldwide break trailing leaders Atletico Madrid by 4 factors whereas they’re two factors forward of Real Madrid in what seems to be set to be an exciting three-way tilt for the title with 10 video games remaining.
Koeman added: “Every game from now on for us, Atletico and Real will be difficult. It’s going to be very exciting until the end of the season and we just have to keep on playing as we are.”
