Valladolid 0 – 3 Barcelona

Lionel Messi eclipsed Pelé’s historic single-club goal record with his 644 goal for Barcelona in a 3-0 La Liga win over Real Valladolid.

Messi’s goal in the second half allowed him to surpass the mark that the great Brazilian had accumulated during 19 seasons with Santos.

A Clement Lenglet header from a Messi cross had given Barcelona the lead in the 21st minute, with Martin Braithwaite, who overtook Antoine Griezmann, and scored a second before the break.

Ronald Koeman’s men closed out their first away win in La Liga since early October to take fifth place in the table, eight points behind leader Atlético de Madrid, who had previously won in third place for Real Sociedad.

How Messi broke Pele’s record …

Messi saw an early opportunity to break the record during the opening exchanges at the José Zorrilla Stadium, his curly shot from the edge of the penalty area falling just wide. The Argentine point guard saw another effort made by Valladolid goalkeeper Jordi Masip before Barcelona took the lead in the 21st minute.

Messi was the creator this time, throwing a cross into the center of the penalty area, where Lenglet put a header into the net.

The Barça players took advantage of the goal celebration by lifting a shirt to pay tribute to the 22-year-old right-back Moussa Wague, who suffered a serious knee injury while playing on loan for Greek PAOK.

Before Valladolid could regroup, the hosts found themselves 2-0 down in the 25th minute.

Messi held off three opposition players before passing the ball down the right for Serginho Dest and his low center was slipped by Masip by Braithwaite.

Barcelona maintained its momentum early in the second half, when Braithwaite stabbed an early opportunity wide.

At the other end, Pablo Hervias’ angled free kick went wide from Marc-Andre ter Stegen’s goal.

Masip then denied Messi again as the hour mark approached with another decent reaction stop.

The talisman of Barcelona, ​​however, scored his record goal in the 65th minute when he played with a good cue from Pedri.

Despite the score, Valladolid came back to life when substitutes Fabián Orellana and Kike Pérez forced Ter Stegen into action.

Barça substitute Philippe Coutinho made a low 20-yard effort against the base of the post. Valladolid were again saved by carpentry in injury time when Messi charged, only to see his angled shot return from the post.

The Argentine playmaker seemed determined to increase his record tally, but Masip produced another good save to keep the score low.

Atlético extends its advantage at the top

League leaders Atletico Madrid drifted three points away from closest rivals and rivals in town, Real after a routine 2-0 win in third place Real society.

Mario Hermoso scored shortly after the break and Marcos Llorente gave the visitors a break with a quarter of an hour from the end so that Atlético, who have one game less over Real Madrid, consolidated their lead at the top.

Fourth classified Villarreal lost the opportunity to take advantage of the slippage of the Society after drawing 1-1 against Athletic Bilbao, who took the lead through Iñaki Williams only to be retained by substitute Yeremi Pino.

On the other hand, Suso scored nine minutes before the end Seville a 1-0 win in Valencia.

Gonzalo Melero rescued a 1-1 draw for I raised in the background Huesca, who went ahead thanks to a penalty from Javi Ontiveros in the first half, but was denied the second victory of the campaign by conceding after the break.

Rubén García and Darko Brasanac scored as passive seconds Osasuna twice took the lead in Elche, who achieved a 2-2 draw thanks to goals from Fidel and Guido Carrillo. Osasuna had Íñigo Pérez expelled at the end.

Serie A: 10-man Juve suffer first loss of season

In Serie A, Juventus succumbed to an irritating result against Fiorentina which leaves the defending champions adrift from league leader AC Milan.

The Bianconeri thrashed Parma at the weekend, but fell behind just three minutes after Dusan Vlahovic’s finish, while things took a turn for the locals a quarter of an hour later when Juan Cuadrado was sent off.

Andrea Pirlo rearranged his backpack, removing Aaron Ramsey in the 20th minute, much to the chagrin of the Welshman who kicked a bottle off the field, but the sacrifice had minimal impact as Juve struggled with 10 men.

Franck Ribéry, whose pass that divided the defense allowed Vlahovic to score the first goal, set up Cristiano Biraghi and his cross was inadvertently turned into the net by Alex Sandro in the 76th minute.

Then Martín Cáceres added salt to the wounds five minutes later, the former Juventus player completing a simple shot after a low ball through Biraghi’s six-yard box.

The victory took Fiorentina five points out of the relegation zone, while Juve, who had won six and drawn six of their 12 matches in the Italian top flight this season, are now seven points behind Milan, which leads the table. .

Somewhere else on Tuesday night Crotone climbed to the bottom of the rankings as they only claimed their second victory of the campaign, beating other fighters Parma 2-1.

Junior Messias scored in the 24th and 44th minutes, meaning that Juraj Kucka’s goal before the hour was mere consolation for Parma.