How many times does Messi play 5 matchs in 14 days?

Tonight, Messi will play the 5th match in the past 14 days, but this is not the first time he has gone through this schedule with Barca.

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused tournaments to be suspended for nearly 3 months. Therefore, when returning, the teams are forced to undergo a tight schedule to be able to finish the season on time and have time to prepare for the new season.

In this situation, many teams have to rotate forces to keep the players strong and avoid injuries. However, for the teams that are racing the championship, it is still necessary to make the strongest squad and special stars like Messi are certainly not absent.

Tonight, Barca will play the 5th match in a row in La Liga after the tournament returns on June 14. Thus, Messi and his teammates must play 5 matches in just 14 days. This horrific schedule will greatly affect the fitness of a 33-year-old player like Messi.

However, this is not the first time the Argentine has experienced such a terrible schedule in the Barca shirt. The statistics show that, since launching Barca on October 16, 2004, Messi has played 722 matches for the Catalan team. During this time, he had to play 40 times in 5 matches in just 14 days.

Particularly in 2011, Messi had to play 5 times in 5 weeks in 2 weeks. But that was when the Barca striker was very fit at the age of 24, and the story may now be very different.

Remember, in 40 times of such a dense series of matches, Messi has only scored at least 1 goal in each match. For the first time from September 19 to October 2, 2007, the Argentine striker scored against Lyon (1), Sevilla (2), Real Zaragoza (2), Levante (1) and Stuttgart (1) . The second time took place from January 13 – 27, 2013, Messi conceded Malaga (1), Malaga (1), Real Sociedad (1), Malaga (1) and Osasuna (4).

And tonight, can Messi score against Celta Vigo to reach 700 goals in his career?

List of times Messi has to play 5 matches in 14 days each year

2004 – 0

2005 – 0

2006 – 1

2007 – 3

2008 – 2

2009 – 4

2010 – 3

2011 – 6

2012 – 3

2013 – 2

2014 – 3

2015 – 3

2016 – 2

2017 – 4

2018 – 3

2019 – 1