In the 22nd round of Ligue 1, Paris Saint-Germain swept Reims 4-0. Amid cheers at the Parc des Princes, Messi came off the bench to make his 2022 debut. In 30 minutes, Messi only had one shot on goal, and his performance was flat. In 2022, there are some "evil doors" in world football - Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo have not yet scored!
In 2021, Messi scored 43 goals and provided 22 assists for Barca, Paris Saint-Germain and the Argentine national team. Before Christmas last year, Messi flew back to his hometown of Rosario in Argentina for a holiday after playing in The Ligue 1 between Paris and Loriento. During Christmas, Messi contracted the virus. After a month of rest, Messi returned to the game.
Messi orchestrated Paris' third goal
Messi's 2022 debut didn't have much to show: he made his debut in the 63rd minute, he scored a goal in the 67th minute, and he scored a shot in the 92nd minute. After the game, whoscored gave Messi 6.6 points, which was decent.
Ronaldo, one of the "absolute double pride", had a bad start to 2022: Manchester United played 5 games (4 Premier League games, 1 FA Cup), C Ronaldo made 3 appearances for 251 minutes, 8 shots and 0 goals. After returning to Manchester United, Cristiano Ronaldo suffered for the first time in three consecutive Premier League goal droughts.
Messi 0 goals, C Ronaldo 0 goals - 2022 double pride, the start is a bit cool. Which of Europe's top 5 leagues scored goals at the start of the year?
Mbappe
There are a total of 8 players, scoring 4 goals in 2022: Bayern's Levan, Paris's Kylian Mbappe, Leeds United's Harrison, Borghard Dortmund's Haland, Verona's Caprari, Real Madrid's Benzema, West Ham's Bowen, Liverpool's Fabinho.
There are 3 players with a New Year's goal count of 5: Roma's Tammy Abraham, Lazio's Immobile, Betis's Iglesias.
Iglesias
Among them, Iglesias ranked first with an efficiency of 1 goal in 78 minutes! Chinese fans are no strangers to Iglesias: in January 2019, Wu Lei joined Espanyol, where he and Iglesias formed a forward pairing. Iglesias, nicknamed "Panda", also gave Wu Lei a lot of help: he was willing to pass the ball to Wu Lei, and he was also willing to attract defense and open up space for Wu Lei.
In the summer of 2019, Iglesias joined Betis from Espanyol for a high price of 28.14 million euros. After coming to Betis, the "Panda" once fell into a trough: from January 20, 2020 to January 19, 2021, for a full year, La Liga only scored 1 goal! However, Iglesias came out of the slump and became the key gentleman of Betis.