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#2 Lionel Messi breaks El Clasico goalscoring record
It was a mark that was thought could never be beaten. Alfredo Di Stefano’s 18 goals in El Clasico fixtures had stood as the benchmark for decades with no one coming near to toppling the record. That was before Messi came on the scene.
A debut Clasico hat-trick in 2007 opened his account and within 27 games over seven years, the Argentine had overhauled his compatriot. His 19th in the fixture came at the Santiago Bernabeu in March 2014, taking him one clear of Di Stefano.
He has since added to the total and, with a good few years left at the top yet, Messi is on course to hold a record that is almost certain never to be beaten.
Arguably the most important that he has scored across the years were the two that came late in the second half of the 2011 Champions League semi-final. It gave Barcelona the platform to go on and win what was their fourth Champions League title at Wembley just a few weeks later.
