Lionel was the only one who changed the beach of the 22 players who were on the field of play at the Alfredo Di Stéfano Stadium
The statistics deny that the tremor of Leo Messi in the storm during the final stretch of the match against Real Madrid, when referee Gil Manzano stopped the match to replace the communication device with his assistants and the VOR room, has to do with a disconnection of the game by the Barcelona footballer.
The Argentine touched the ball 99 times during the match, more than any Real Madrid player (the one who did it the most was Luka Modric with 55) and the Barça team was only beaten by Clément Lenglet’s defenders. and Jordi Alba, with 104 interventions each, according to the statistics website ‘WhoScored’.
This translated that Messi had 6.7% of possession of the ball that was in the total of the match, a figure also higher than that of any player in the white set. Luka Modric, with 4.2%, led this statistic in Real Madrid, which won the match 2-1, and another of the key players of the whites, Karim Benzema, author of the first goal, remained in a 2, 6%.
The leaders of this section were the central one Clément Lenglet with 8.8% and left-back Jordi Alba with 8% (interestingly, right-back Sergiño Dest was the starting player for Barcelona with less possession: 2.3%). The two players who accompanied Messi in the attack had less ball than him: Pedro González ‘Pedri’ 5.5% of the time and Ousmane Dembélé, 2.7%.
But the sections that Messi leading with solvency were those of shooting and watering. In the first case he made seven, two of them on goal (the only footballer in the match who made more than one), ahead of Karim Benzema, Toni Kross, Óscar Mingueza and Ilaix Moriba, All of them with three.
The Rosario player was also the one who haggled the most during the match, with seven successful attempts. The second most did was his teammate Frenkie de Jong, with 3, tied with Vinícius Junior.
Thus, it becomes clear that the reasons that led to Messi to change the shirt and the shirt (the only one who did it of the 22 players who were on the field of play at the Alfredo Di Stéfano Stadium) during the break of the match to try to stop the intense tremor of his body had nothing to do with a lack of activation of the football player of the Barcelona.