In the end, Barcelona defeated Espanyol 4-0 at home with Messi's senior and won the last city derby of the season.

Messi has surpassed the glory with 72 goals and regained his position as the player with the most goals in a single season.

After the game, the Catalan media were praising Messi's appearance, all kinds of exclamations, all kinds of incredible, all kinds of praise and touting.

Even Madrid's media prominently published photos of Messi celebrating his goal, with the caption: "Greatness".

The fact that Madrid's media were able to do this is a testament to Messi's remarkable achievements.

And Messi's four goals against Espanyol have left his arch-rival Cristiano Ronaldo behind in the league scorers' charts, and he now has 50 league goals. It also broke the previous record of 45 goals scored in a single season held by Cristiano Ronaldo.

Before the two of them, the single-season league goal record belonged to Gerd Muller. In the 1971-1972 season, he helped Bayern Munich win the Bundesliga, and he himself scored an incredible forty goals. For a long time afterward, this was an unbreakable record. Even Glory, at his peak morale, neither at Bayern Munich nor at Manchester City, has scored 40 league goals in a single season.

Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo have also battled for the league's top scorers this season. Cristiano Ronaldo had just completed his record of 45 goals before Messi left him far behind with 50 goals.

Such a remarkable expression is naturally so that opponents have to admire it.

Of course, not everyone is convinced by Messi's achievement.

For example, the media in England.

After the game, some English reporters ridiculed Messi on his personal social networks for surpassing glory by penalty kicks.

“…… Without these two penalties, Messi's goal tally would have just equaled Rong's. So I can't quite understand what the Catalan media is so excited about – taking the lead from two penalties is embarrassingly called 'great'? ”

His message is naturally full of gunsmoke, and netizens who support Glory and Messi are arguing non-stop below.

The English media fully supported Glory.

The day after the game, England's "The Sun" wrote an article claiming that Messi's 72 goals were very watery, and compared with glory, the gold content was much worse.

Their theory is based on 14 penalties from Messi's 72 goals, including 10 in the domestic league and four in the Champions League.

And none of Glory's 70 goals were penalized.

“…… Messi is the number one penalty taker at Barcelona and he takes all the penalties. And what about Rong? He almost never took a penalty at Manchester City. If you really want to compare, then you should compare under the same conditions, since Rong did not have a penalty, then when we count the number of Messi's goals, we should not count the penalty, excluding these fourteen penalties, what is Messi's actual number of goals? Fifty-eight balls! Not to mention surpassing Rong, he hasn't even broken Gerd Müller's record! ”

"The most obvious is that in the last game, in order to be able to beat Rong, Messi got two penalty opportunities in one game, and it was really hard. It was with these two penalties that he surpassed Rong's. In fact, Barcelona's second penalty was controversial, Gao was a little exaggerated when he fell in the penalty area, and he was suspected of faking the fall...... Beating Rong in this way, I don't think Messi can accept this honor with a smile! ”

The Sun is not alone in this view. Although The Sun did not have a good reputation in England's media circles, this time, many media outlets were like them and thought that Messi's penalty was too much. If Messi only scored three or five penalties, it would be fine, but now a full fourteen penalties are too glaring.

The English media unanimously criticised Messi for relying too much on penalties, an unskilled way of scoring goals.

The media in Catalonia were outraged by Messi.

"Penalties are not technical? It's the funniest joke I've ever heard! But I understand that, because the people who say this are Englishmen who don't know anything about football, just look at their newspapers -- The Sun, The Guardian, The Times...... They're not even a professional sports media! ”

"Penalty kicks are very demanding on a player's mental endurance and technical, and I don't understand how using them is inferior. Being able to score fourteen penalties in one season speaks volumes about Messi being the most trustworthy and stable player. The willingness of his team to give him a penalty also shows how much they believe in Messi! On the contrary, Manchester City's number one penalty taker is not Rong, perhaps not like the English media said, what Rong disdains to score in such an easy way, the truth is that Rong's psychological element is simply not enough to withstand such a lot of pressure! ”

In response to this remark by the mouthpiece of Barcelona club, Le Monde Sport, the Manchester Evening News made a strong response.

"Say that Messi's psychological element is good, the table xiàn steady dìng, the trustworthy reporter of "World Sports Daily", I recommend that they collectively go to watch last season's Champions League final again, to see how the trustworthy Messi watched Rong beat them with three goals and one assist, and Messi could not do anything. For those who say that Rong has a poor psychological quality, I suggest that they go and count how many Rong equalized when they were behind, and how many of them were goals near the end of the game...... It's not that the newspaper with the word 'sports' on its name is a professional sports media, but whether it is professional or not depends on what is said and done, in my opinion, the professional content of "World Sports Newspaper" is similar to the bulldog of my next-door neighbor......"

Anyway, the media on both sides hyped up the bottom up, and the supporters of both sides also got into a scuffle on the Internet.

Barcelona and Messi supporters have said that no matter what you say, it is Messi who is now leading in the total number of goals!

They believe that this is an irrefutable fact, Messi is just to be stronger than glory.

The season is almost over, but unexpectedly, it suddenly set off a huge wave, Glory and Messi's challenge to the total number of goals in a single season has attracted the attention of the whole world and has become an annual event in the entire European football world, and the attention of Cheng Dù even surpassed the Champions League final for a time.

Now everyone really wants to know who will have the last laugh between Rongguang and Messi.

Messi has one league game and one Copa del Rey final left.

Glory, on the other hand, have two league games and a Champions League final.

In terms of the number of games, Rongguang has more than Messi, after all, Rongguang also participated in two matches in the Club World Cup.

This is also the reason used by Messi supporters to criticize the real lack of gold in the number of goals scored by Glory, who believe that games like the Club World Cup are all about scoring goals, and it is also true that Glory has more appearances than Messi in terms of total appearances. He has participated in many games, which is to take advantage.

Supporters of Glory said that scoring three goals in two Club World Cup games was not a "brush" at all.

In addition, Rongguang has participated in many games, so why doesn't Messi have the ability to participate in two Club World Cup and one Champions League final? Why can't I participate? In addition, we only have one Community Shield in England, and your Super Cup in Spain is a two-legged home and away system, so why not say that you have more Super Cup games?

The two sides quarreled with each other until the evening of 8 May.

In the final match of the 37th round of the English Premier League, Manchester City challenged Newcastle United away.

Manchester United beat Swansea 2-0 at home in the already concluded Swansea game, but they only managed to get two clean sheets. Of course, if Manchester City lose to Newcastle United by a big margin away from home, then there is still a theoretical possibility that United will win the title in the last round.

But if Manchester City beat and draw with Newcastle United on the road, they will all win the title early, no matter how many goals they win.

Another very important thing is, of course, the competition between Glory and Messi.

At this time, many leagues in Europe are not playing, and everyone can watch this game without distraction to see how Glory will react in the face of Messi's aggressive attack. After Messi regained the top spot, can the glory be regained?

This match is not only in Europe, but also in faraway China and Argentina, there are countless people watching this game.

The game kicks off at 3 a.m. Beijing time on May 9.

It's such a late game, but there are still a lot of people waiting in front of the TV.

Now is the era of developed Internet, so the controversy in Europe has also been changed to China through the guò network, domestic fans are already familiar with the tearing war between Messi supporters and glory supporters in Europe, and this matter has been broadcast live on Weibo in China for several days, and the topic of "Glory VS Messi" is the first place in the 24-hour hot topic of Weibo every day.

The vast majority of people support Glory, and it is not excluded that there are some mavericks who intend to show their ability to think independently and must support Messi to defeat Glory.

However, the fans have taunted Messi enough on the Internet, and if Glory can't really surpass Messi in the game, then their taunts will instantly turn into a slap in the face.

So they wanted to see if Glory would live up to their expectations and succeed in slapping him in the face of those who questioned him, laughed at him, and criticized him!