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#3 Valencia — 31 goals
Lionel Messi holds a decent goal-to-game ratio against Valencia. Of the 36 games played in total, Leo has found the net 31 times.
Messi has shown his class against Valencia, particularly in La Liga. The Albiceleste skipper has netted 27 goals while registering 11 assists off just 29 games. The same takes his direct goal involvement to 38 versus the Bats.
The former Barcelona number 10 has scored two hat-tricks and one quadruple against Valencia. There have only been seven instances when Messi failed to register a goal or an assist against Valencia during his lengthy stint in La Liga.
#2 Atletico Madrid — 32 goals
Other than the UEFA Champions League where Lionel Messi and Atletico Madrid have faced each other 4 times, the former has seldom failed to score against the reigning La Liga champions.
Scoring against Atletico Madrid, one of the frontrunners in the La Liga, is no easy feat. However, the Argentine has fired 32 goals (second-most against any club) vs Rojiblancos. The same establishes the fact that Messi is indeed one of the world's best.
Atletico Madrid have been unlucky enough to have conceded a hat-trick of goals from Leo Messi in consecutive face-offs. While the first one came on Matchday 22 of the 2010/11 season, the following event took place on Matchday 6 of the 2011/12 La Liga season.
The latter was also the Argentine's last hat-trick against Atletico Madrid. He has also registered three braces versus the Rojiblancos.
#1 Sevilla — 38 goals
After former arch-rivals Real Madrid, Sevilla is the club Lionel Messi has jointly played most games (43) against. The other team is Atletico Madrid.
After conceding a whopping 38 goals and 21 assists from Lionel Messi over the course of years, Sevilla is well and truly the Barcelona legend's favorite opponent in terms of numbers.
Leo Messi has stunned the Estadio Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán crowd on numerous occasions. He has recorded a mammoth 30 goals and 10 assists against Sevilla off just 29 Liga games. That means Messi has scored or assisted once every 65.25 minutes against Sevilla in La Liga.
He has also helped his club win 21 times against the club while losing just once to the Sevillistas during his stint at the Camp Nou.
Now that the Blaugrana legend has left his long-time home to ply his trade in Ligue 1, drop in the comments section what your favorite Leo Messi moments at Barcelona were.
