UEFA Champions League: Lionel Messi Marks Another Milestone

Legendary footballer Lionel Messi has created history in terms of goals against 34 teams.
UEFA Champions League: Lionel Messi Marks Another Milestone

Barcelona's legendary footballer Lionel Messi has created a history. Striker Lionel Messi has become the first such footballer in the world to have scored against 34 teams. Lionel Messi has created history by scoring against 34 teams in the UEFA Champions League so far. Lionel Messi achieved this milestone on Wednesday when he scored against Dortmund. Lionel Messi scored a goal for Barcelona. With this help, the Barcelona team beat their opposition team by 3–1. The OPTAGOS, has tweeted and informed about it. OptaJose wrote on the Twitter handle, "34 – Lionel Messi has become the player to score against 34 different teams in UCL. This is the highest score by any player. It's historic."

Lionel Messi was playing his 700th match for Barcelona. During this time he scored a goal and increased the number of goals in his tally to 613. Lionel Messi has scored over 600 goals so far for the Spanish team. In the match played between Barcelona and Dortmund, Luis Suarez scored the first goal for the hosts in the 29th minute. After this, Lionel Messi also gave his team an edge in the 33rd minute.

At the same time, Antoine Griezmann scored the third goal in the 67th minute of the match and extended Barcelona's lead to 3–0 against Dortmund. The visiting team managed to score just one goal in the 77th minute and lost the match by 1-3. Barcelona are ranked number one in the F group with 11 points in the UEFA Champions League. Lionel Messi has a big hand in this performance of Barcelona team.

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