{"id":12109,"date":"2011-04-24T04:48:19","date_gmt":"2011-04-24T11:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/04\/24\/messi-sets-record-barca-hits-osasuna\/"},"modified":"2011-04-24T04:48:19","modified_gmt":"2011-04-24T11:48:19","slug":"messi-sets-record-barca-hits-osasuna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/04\/24\/messi-sets-record-barca-hits-osasuna\/","title":{"rendered":"Messi sets record, Barca hits Osasuna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"Barcelona's striker Lionel Messi (R) vies with Osasuna's Iranian midfielder Javad Nekounam (L) and midfielder Alvaro Cejudo Carmona (C) on April 23 at the Nou Camp Stadium.\" src=\"http:\/\/previous.presstv.ir\/photo\/20110424\/asohrabi20110424001943890.jpg\" height=\"265\" width=\"398\" \/>PTV &#8211; BARCELONA, <strong>Argentine football  star Lionel Messi has scored the 50th goal of the season as Barcelona  defeated Osasuna to maintain an eight-point lead in La Liga.<\/strong><span id=\"ctl00_body_spnDetail\"> <\/p>\n<p>Pep Guardiola&#8217;s side beat Osasuna 2-0 on Saturday to ensure the lead  over archrival Real Madrid ahead of their Champions League duel slated  for Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>The two-time world player of the year is the first player to score  50 goals in a Spanish season as he moved past Real Madrid&#8217;s Hungarian  legend Ferenc Puskas. <\/p>\n<p>Messi has netted 31 in La Liga, nine in the Champions League, seven in the Copa del Rey and three in the Spanish Super Cup. <\/p>\n<p>David Villa scored the opener from close range in the 24th minute,  and Messi clinched the victory for Barcelona three minutes from time,  AFP reported. <\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, Real pummeled Valencia 6-3 to get ready for  Champions League semifinal first leg clash with Barca at the Santiago  Bernabeu Stadium.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><strong>BARCELONA:<\/strong> Vald\u00e9s; Alves, Mascherano, Milito (Xavi,  m.65), Maswell; Busquets, Thiago, Keita; Afellay, Villa (Messi, m.59),  Jeffren (Iniesta, m.45).<\/p>\n<p><strong>OSASUNA: <\/strong>Ricardo; Nelson, Lolo, Fla\u00f1o, Monreal; <strong>Nekounam<\/strong>, Vadocz; Dami\u00e1 (Timor, m.79), Camu\u00f1as, Cejudo; Sola (Pandiani, m.79).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PTV &#8211; BARCELONA, Argentine football star Lionel Messi has scored the 50th goal of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c16-iranian-legionairs"],"views":5049,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}