Messi rescued Barcelona at Villarreal

Messi vs Villarreal

Why Leo Messi is the best in the world, today world again showed his eye dazzling performance vs Villareal and he proved he is the G.O.A.T.

Barcelona boss Ernesto Valverde did rest to his superstars' Lionel Messi, Ivan Rankitic and Gerard Pique and drop out from the starting eleven because of a busy schedule of Barcelona in upcoming weeks. They will play a match against Atletico Madrid and four days later play against Manchester United, Catalan giant stars wanted to rest from this match because in this long season all played almost all matches.  The manager gave chance to Malcolm , Arturo Vidal and Samual Umtiti to playing eleven.

At the starting of the match, Villarreal gave a good response but they were not able to crack the Barca defense wall. Before they crack deadlock Pilliipe Coutinho put a ball into the net at 12 minutes, after in just four minutes Malcolm gave a double lead to football giant. Barca was on front seat but at the twenty-three minutes, Samuel Chukwueze hit goal and reduced Barca lead to 2-1. Score sheet stayed 2-1 at the end of the first half.

Fear of relegation gave energy to the home side and players put their energy to take game bake. Karl Toko Ekambi found the net and Villarreal took bake in the game. Coutinho was withdrawn for Messi at 61 minutes. The visitors were needed their talisman. Suddenly the game changed toward Barcelona favor and Messi was captain of Barcelona sheep. But, today Villarreal not in a mood to lose a match at any cost, relegation line encourages players to work hard and home side gave a 4-2 lead in 20 minutes.  Villarreal worked hard defensively and not gave chance to break the deadlock at the end of regular time but they had not any plane to stop Lionel Messi stunning free-kick and Messi rose energy of Barcelona to draw match rather than lose. Balagarana players put high pressure on home side to put ball into the net. Before just 30 seconds of the stoppage time of the game, Luis Suarez hit half volley and found out a net and gave the fourth goal for draw match.

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Golden shoe race in 2019

The content of the article

1) What is the golden shoe in Football

2) How to count a point for golden shoe

3) 2018-2019 Candidate of golden shoe

1) What is the golden shoe in Football

The European Golden shoe or golden boot is an award presented to each year leading goal scorer in European top league. It depends on the whole season players goal record.   

2) How to count a point for golden shoe

In starting time golden shoe award just only depend on goal score in whole season without consider league value or reputation but after Cyprus FA opposed the idea of this method because weaker league players often won golden boot easily and tougher league player has not won an award that’s why they stand against this award and award initially was not given during 1991 to 1996. But, then European Media shoe started golden shoe award base on a point system and that allows to tougher league players to win the award. League rank count depends on UEFA and considers last 5 year records.

Top 5 league goal scored multiple by coefficient 2, rank number 6 to 20 league goal scored multiple by coefficient 1.5 and rank 21 to more league goal scored multiple by coefficient 1.

Barcelona and Argentina talisman Lionel Messi has won record five times this award in his career and maybe won more golden shoe in the upcoming year. He won in 2009–10, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2016–17, 2017–18 years. After Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo won this award four times in his career and one time he shared this award with Luis Suarez.

3) 2018-2019 Candidate of golden shoe

The current position of golden shoe award in 2018-2019     *last update on 02-04-2019

Rank	Player	Club	Goal	Factor	Points
1	Lionel Messi	Barcelona	31	2.0	62.0
2	Kylian Mbappe	PSG	27	2.0	54.0
3	Fabio Quagliarella	Sampdoria	21	2.0	42.0
4	Cristiano Ronaldo	Juventus	19	2.0	38.0
	Krzysztof Piątek	AC Milan
	Duván Zapata	Atalanta
	Robert Lewandowski	Bayern Munich
	Sergio Agüero	Man City
9	Luis Suárez	Barcelona	18	2.0	36.0
10	Robert Skov	Copenhage	23	1.5	34.5

The science behind Lionel Messi free-kick

Few day ago Messi hit astonishing free kick against Espanyol. Some football experts gave name panenka free kick because it’s looked like Panenka penalty. So today we will see the secrete of Messi’s penalty.

Free-kick is one of the toughest things in football. It’s require pin point accuracy with enough power to put ball in goal post. In the football history only few players had this type of technique to take free kick.

Lionel Messi has more free kick goals over last four la liga seasons than any other team in Europe’s top five leagues, beating entire clubs like Real Madrid, Juventus, Bayern Munich and PSG. He is Picasso of taking free kick.

So know we try to understand what is reason and tactics behind taking free kick by Messi

Report suggested that Messi changed his way to hit ball in training early on, using plastic plate as a barrier between him and the goal.

When Messi taking free kick that time his leg has an angle of 50 degrees. Entire shoes plants on the ground before hitting the ball, it gives stability and control.

The department of physics at the university of Barcelona said : “ he uses the Magnus effect to find his consistency from free kicks.”

According to the report, “ the pressure on the lower surface of the body(ball) is greater than the pressure on the upper surface, resulting in a force curve trajectory of the body.

Messi is able to score free kick anywhere, and he told :

"Yes. To be honest, I like to hit the ball over the players' wall but from time to time I like to mix it up a little bit so that the goalkeeper doesn't know where I'm going and I want to keep him confused until I kick." 

"I think for that reason I like to keep the goalkeeper in doubt."

Barcelona Star Ivan Rankitic told : “ sometime we celebrate free kick goal earlier because we feel like today Messi will put ball in goal post.”