Since entering 2022, Messi's state has become better and better, especially in the Ligue 1, directly countering the doubts of the outside world. In the 25th round of this round of Ligue 1, Paris Saint-Germain lost to Nantes 1-3 away, Messi sent an assist, the last 12 games for Greater Paris, scored 3 goals and assisted 8 times, 11 goals alone, but also officially became the first person in history to send 200 assists in the five major leagues.
Last summer, Messi refused to renew his contract with Barca, and finally joined Ligue 1 giants Paris Saint-Germain on a free basis, enjoying an annual salary of 36 million euros, resulting in only 1 goal in 12 appearances in ligue 1 in the first half of ligue 1, and there were more and more doubts.
Now Messi is gradually regaining his form, and his role in the Grand Paris team is becoming more and more prominent. A focus battle in Ligue 1 that ended in the early morning of last Sunday, Paris fell behind 3-0 in the first half, and shortly after the start of the second half, Neymar scored a goal, a wonderful assist from Messi, when Mbappe scored the ball, Messi took the ball to observe a direct kick through the opposing backline, Neymar adjusted the angle to shoot through the goal.
It's just a pity that Neymar, Mbappe, and Di Maria missed opportunities in succession, otherwise Messi had assisted more than once in this game.
Assist Neymar's goal is Messi's 200th career top five league assist, becoming the only player in history to reach this milestone. In addition, the match was Messi's 800th match, with a total of 679 goals and 273 assists.
According to the statistics after the game, Messi passed the ball with a success rate of 84%, created 2 scoring opportunities, lost the ball 17 times, had 6 successes in 8 ground confrontations, assisted 1 time, missed 1 good opportunity, SofaScore gave Messi 8 points, the first high score in the game.
However, the French media "Team Newspaper" gave the players on both sides a score, and the Nantes goalkeeper scored a full score of 10 points, giving Messi only 4 points, which was obviously much lower. In terms of performance, Messi is the best performing player in Paris, and the French media chose to ignore it.
As the position moved back, Messi began to move away from the box, the number of goals became less, the number of assists increased, and the role was still very large.