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Lionel Messi became the all-time top scorer for a single soccer club after scoring his 644 goal for Barcelona during their La Liga match against Real Valladolid, surpassing Pelé’s goal record for Brazilian Santos.
The 33-year-old Argentine, who equaled Pelé’s record of 643 goals with a goal against Valencia on Saturday, scored 3-0 at Barça in Valladolid, ran behind to receive a pass from the teenager Pedri and put the ball into the far lower corner.
The goal capped a brilliant individual and team performance, with Messi setting up the first goal for Clément Lenglet and also intervening in Barça’s second goal, leaving a pass from Sergiño Dest that crossed for Martin Braithwaite to score in the 35th minute.
League Leaders Atlethical Madrid moved three points clear with a 2-0 win in third place Real society thanks to the goals in the second half by Mario Hermoso and Marcos Llorente.
Atléti, who recorded his 300th win in 499 games in all competitions under Diego Simeone, broke the deadlock early in the second half when defender Hermoso headed off a floating free kick by Yannick Carrasco.
The Madrid team, without signing João Félix, who stayed at the team’s hotel after feeling bad, increased their advantage with a strong goal from Llorente after a dismissal of Luis Suárez.
La Sociedad received playmaker David Silva after an injury, but didn’t get a shot on goal until Atlético goalkeeper Jan Oblak delivered a Martín Merquelanz free kick around the post.
Juventus suffered their first defeat of the season in Serie A, losing 3-0 at home to the lowly Fiorentina after the expulsion of Juan Cuadrado at 18 minutes.
Dusan Vlahovic surprised the Turin squad by overtaking the visitors in the third minute before Cuadrado received a direct red card for a dangerous tackle on Gaetano Castrovilli.
Juve’s defense, shaky throughout the match, gave Fiorentina a second when Alex Sandro scored his own goal in the 76th minute and five minutes later Martín Cáceres scored the third after Leonardo Bonucci lost possession.
The defeat capped a bad day for Juventus. Earlier on Tuesday Naples won their appeal against the decision to hand them a 3-0 loss and a one-point deduction for not playing their league game against the Serie A champions.
The Italian Olympic Committee confirmed that its Guarantee Board, the highest court in Italian sport, had accepted Napoli’s appeal and ordered the match against Juventus to be replayed.
Tuesday’s decision and defeat left Juve tied at 24 points with Napoli and Rome.
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Italian Serie B side Chievo They have said that their Nigerian player Joel Obi was the victim of a racist insult from a player with Pisa, who denied the accusation.
Chievo said in a statement that Obi was “the subject of an infamous and shameful phrase that has nothing to do with the most basic values of sport, ethics and respect,” claiming that Pisa player Michele Marconi used the phrase “revolt of slaves “towards Obi in the first half of the 2-2 tie.
“Chievo regrets that a phrase heard by the majority on the field was not followed by any disciplinary action: neither the referee, nor the assistant or fourth official, nor the federation delegate,” he added.
Pisa said the club “distanced itself” from Chievo’s statement, saying the alleged insult was not detected by match officials or by microphones around the pitch.
“Furthermore, our player confirmed that he had not directed insults at the opposing player, much less for racial reasons,” he added.
Obi has spent most of his career in Italy, playing for Internazionale, Parma and Torino, as well as for the Nigerian national team.
