Lionel Messi, who won his seventh Ballon d'Or, has finished all of the tournaments of the year and is expected to receive another top individual honor next January, the World Footballer of the Year. As we all know, the selection of World Footballer of the Year is more about the fame and influence of players, and the performance and performance of the national team are the main criteria. Neither Lewandowski nor Jorginho will be able to beat Messi in this award.
However, Messi's personal data in Ligue 1 is not good, scoring only 1 goal, but a total of 6 hits to the goal frame, continuing the performance of the god in La Liga. It is worth mentioning that Messi's position in Paris is different from that of Barca, Pochettino did not fix Messi's position, but consciously let Messi continue to retreat. So, messi can be seen often with Mbappe to stage a two-man sprint counter-attack, and Messi's goals are basically long-range shots, because he will hardly appear in the box.
It can be seen that if Paris has a world-class center, it may have the opportunity to get Messi's continuous supply of assists to complete the score. Currently, the only centre-forward in Paris is Icardi, who generally plays as a substitute, scoring more league goals than Messi and more of a header in the penalty area. Although he has been sent out to leave the squad and return to Serie A, Paris still seem to need Icardi to contribute in the centre forward position.
The reason for his departure was that he could not play the main force in Paris, and it was rumored that he had been at odds with Messi, who earlier held a Ballon d'Or celebration banquet, and only Icardi did not attend. Now, Messi and Icardi have broken the rumors with their actions, and after ending this year's competition, Messi and Paris's Argentine teammates Di Maria and Paredes have chartered a plane back to Argentina for a vacation, this time Icardi is licensed to accompany him. This situation also proves that Messi and Icardi should be reconciled.
If Icardi remains in Paris for the second half of the season, Messi will definitely have a chance to give him a lot of assists, which is Messi's new role in Paris, transforming into an organizational midfielder, no longer pursuing goal statistics, but can concentrate on improving assist data. Speaking of assists, Messi set an insurmountable record in 2011, easily delivering 36 assists in 69 games.
However, Ajax captain Tadić from the Dutch League broke Messi's important assist record in 67 games this year, and Messi no longer enjoys the record of the king of assists in a natural year. To a certain extent, C Ronaldo fans are very happy, after all, messi's record has been broken, after all, C Ronaldo is difficult to become the king of assists. But the twist is that of the 37 assists completed by the 33-year-old Tadic, 2 of them occurred in friendly matches.
Messi's statistics are all official matches, which means that Tadic should be subtracted 2 assists and 5 games less, because 5 games are friendly matches. The final stats should be 62 games contributing 35 assists. It can be said that Messi's important record has been saved, but the average assist per game is 0.04 less than That of Tadic. But Messi is busy scoring goals while still delivering so many assists, so it is actually unreasonable to compare assists per game.
Therefore, It is too regrettable that Tadic has no chance to surpass Messi's super record, whether there is still a chance to surpass Messi's assist record, I am afraid it is too difficult, after all, it is now the time for Tadic to shine, and it will usher in a downward trend in the future. On the contrary, the 34-year-old Messi still has a chance to break his assist record, and the second half of the season should officially complete the run-in with Neymar and Mbappe, and next year there will be a World Cup match, Messi ushered in the best opportunity to break the assist record.