Messi’s Best Assists at Barcelona

Lionel Messi is the greatest player ever to play the beautiful game. He is arguably the greatest goal scorer as well. However, it is not just his incredible goal tally that makes him sit on top of everyone else. Messi is the greatest ever playmaker. He is the player with the most assists (463) in the history of football. Here, we will look at the top 10 assists the Argentine made in his time at Barcelona.

Two against three, but one of them is Messi!

A young Messi assisted against Ronaldo’s Portugal. Messi started his run on the right wing, but with a cut inside, he moved towards the centre and saw Di Maria making a run behind the defense. La Pulga went around Portuguese player Raul Meireles and chipped in Di Maria’s path on the left, who chipped over the keeper to score.

Messi’s assist to Di Maria (Dallas FCB)

An outside of the boot beauty

Messi assisted his national team best friend, Sergio Agüero, in an international friendly with Albania. Even if the match did not hold grave significance, Messi’s assist was a thing of genius. The Argentine slid the ball into Aguero’s path from the outside of his foot, taking the whole Albanian defense by surprise.

Messi dribbles past Albanian defenders (TimesLIVE)

One magician to another

Messi assisted Andres Iniesta in an El Clasico by going through several players and sliding it into his run. The Madrid defense was oblivious to Iniesta’s run as he found himself 1v1 with the keeper. Casillas tried to rush the magician, but he coolly chipped it over him to score.

Iniesta calmly chips it over Casillas (SherAli EDITS on YouTube)

The special La Manita

This assist came before the coldest walk ever witnessed in football. David Villa scored his 2nd and Barca’s 4th goal of the game. Messi got away from some Real Madrid players on the right and sent a through ball ahead of Sergio Ramos and into the path of David Villa. The Spanish forward slid it between the legs of Casillas to make it 4-0 on the night.

Villa slides it between Casillas’ legs to make it 4-0 (www.wsj.com)

Assist to Henry in the infamous 6-2 El Clasico win

Every Barca fan remembers the iconic El Clasico 6-2 win where Barcelona obliterated their eternal rivals. However, the Blaugrana did not have a positive start to the game. It was Real Madrid who struck first as Messi’s national teammate Gonzalo Higuaín scored the opening goal of the match. Just 4 minutes later, Messi responded by assisting Thierry Henry to equalise the score. A beautiful assist that demonstrated the genius vision the little magician has.

Henry’s equaliser from Messi’s assist (Math Hoffa on YouTube)

Messi’s assists alone make him one of the best players of all time. Combined with his elite goal-scoring ability, he is the greatest ever. He is not just the best goal scorer of all time, but also the best playmaker of all time.

27 best assists of Messi’s career (SherAli EDITS on YouTube)
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