Lionel Messi has handed fellow legend Zlatan Ibrahimovic to interrupt one more report in his third separate season since becoming a member of MLS facet Inter Miami in 2023.
Messi’s MLS information embody being the one participant to register at the very least 36 objective contributions in a number of seasons, and turning into solely the second participant to guide the league in each objectives and assists.
When he scored a hat-trick within the the final recreation of the common season – a 5-2 victory over Nashville – Messi set one other report.
That introduced up his fiftieth MLS objective, and made him the quickest participant in historical past to that feat.
In consequence, the highest three now reads as under.
1. Lionel Messi
Messi surpassed Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Josef Martinez by one recreation to take the MLS report of scoring 50 objectives within the least time.
The Argentine famous person introduced up the half-century in 53 video games.
It’s all the extra spectacular given he isn’t a central striker, relatively a right-winger, who additionally has 28 MLS assists to his identify, bringing his complete tally for direct objective contributions to 78 in 53 video games.
=2. Zlatan Ibrahimovic
In solely 58 video games in all within the MLS, Ibrahimovic scored a complete of 53 objectives, and he introduced up his fiftieth in his 54th recreation.
He had one thing of a sluggish begin, with solely three objectives in his first eight MLS video games for LA Galaxy.
However he had a number of five-game scoring streaks, a few of which noticed him rating greater than as soon as, to race in the direction of what was then the report.
=2. Josef Martinez
Martinez has spent the vast majority of his profession within the MLS, and is presently sitting on 130 objectives from 214 video games.
It took him simply 54 video games to attain his first 50 objectives, and he kicked off his spell with Atalanta by scoring 5 objectives in his first three video games.
Martinez as soon as went on a run of scoring eight objectives in 4 video games, which included back-to-back hat-tricks.
His fiftieth objective got here proper on the finish of his second marketing campaign, during which he went on a nine-game scoring streak, scoring 14 objectives in these video games.
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