The records to which Leo is accustomed to the Barça fan cause a match without a goal by the Argentine to be a strange day. in Vigo it was, but the concern increases when that drought begins to become routine. And it is that the numbers of Leo since Quique Setién is on the bench are, in comparison against times and coaches, much more earthly.
Barça's '10' has been applied more in the assistant's job in recent games but seems at odds with the goal. His two assists to Suárez are obscured with the two clear occasions that the Argentine sent to limbo. On the way to his official 800th goal , Leo seems to have run out of gunpowder.
The one in Vigo was the third consecutive game that Messi remains unmarked . The tenth of the 16 he has played in the 'Setien era'. That is to say, with the Cantabrian coach it is more 'normal' that Leo does not see the door to be scored. And that doesn't happen every season. Rather it has not happened in any.
Even in the season with 'Tata' Martino at the helm, the one with the worst performance that he is remembered, back at 13-14, Messi finished the season with 41 goals . Very far from the 26 that contemplate him at this point in the season, of which only eight have scored in the 'Setien era'.
His worst scoring record in more than ten season
In the last decade, Messi never fell below the 40-goal figure at the end of the course . The 38 of his first year with Guardiola seem an unattainable figure at this point for Leo, who has seven league games and at least one of the Champions to sign twelve goals and match that record.
Or what is the same, if Messi does not chain a spectacular streak, it will be his worst year in terms of goals since the last season of Rijkaard , 07-08, in which he signed 16 goals. Leo was barely 20 years old at the time and did not offer such devastating efficacy as has accompanied him in the last ten years. The Argentine is at odds with the goal and that is a bad sign at Can Barça. It is no coincidence that this bad streak coincided with the fact that this League has gone uphill.
