People are calling it the goal of the season. And perhaps they should. Is it more inventive than Luis Suarez’s long-range effort vs Norwich? You be the judge. This is the kind of goal you attempt on the training ground and sometimes score. Scoring it causes you to dream about scoring it in a real game – which of course never happens. Unless of course you are Papiss Demba Cisse : )
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Not a bad way to complete a hat-trick. The key here is that he pretty much keeps his head down until he shoots, thereby not cueing the keeper as to his intentions. A great goal. One of the best of this season.
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Lionel Messi scored a hat-trick yesterday in Barcelona’s 4-1 win over Malaga to break the record for most goals scored in a European season. Messi now has 68 goals in all competitions during the 2011-2012 season, passing the previous mark of 67 set by Gerd Muller in 1972/73.
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Related
> Hat-trick Tracker: 2011-2012
> Spanish La Liga Top Goal Scorers 2011-12
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Also yesterday – Cristiano Ronaldo could not keep pace with Messi in the La Liga goal scoring race, scoring “only” once in Real Madrid’s 3-0 win over Athletic Bilbao. However that win did make CR7 a first-time winner of La Liga – and Ronaldo was clearly very satisfied with that achievement, saying to AS:
“It’s great. It’s my first league here in Spain and I’m very happy. It’s mission accomplished and to win the league is great…The players are all very happy because it gives you a lot of joy to win the league after ten months of battling. Winning the league is very difficult.”
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Yesterday it was Luis Suarez bagging all three goals as Liverpool blanked Norwich 3-0.
Today it was Fernando Torres hitting three in Chelsea’s 6-1 romp over QPR.
Those magnificent individual performances leave our > Hat-trick Tracker at 40 three-goal performances thus far during the 2011-2012 season.
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His project at FC Barcelona will go down as one of the greatest if not “the” greatest work of art in the history of the sport.
Four seasons. Thirteen, perhaps fourteen trophies. And a revolutionary brand of football that captured the imagination of the footballing world.
Trophies aside, one can only imagine what a treat it must have been to be a player in Guardiola’s historic team. Players can only dream of a manager such as this – unless of course you are the lumbering Zlatan Ibrahimovic : )
Barca thanks you, Pep, and we thank you too – on behalf of all of the best players in the world.
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He’s never signed more than a one year contract and he’s often talked about the strain of managing his beloved club – and now he’s finally going to step away.
Pep Guardiola – winner of 13 trophies in his four years at the helm of what became know as the best club in the world of soccer – has today announced that he will not return to his job next season.
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