He's finally done it! Lionel Messi broke Raul's UEFA Champions League record today against APOEL Nicosia. The Argentinian has scored 72 goals with Barcelona in the European competition, and managed to beat Cristiano Ronaldo in their particular record-breaking feud.
Messi managed to score the second goal for Barcelona against the Cypriot side, eighteen minutes after Luis Suarez scored his first with los Blaugranas. Messi passed the ball to Rafinha and went inside the box, taking advantage of a through ball by the Braziliand defender. Then, Messi sticked out his right foot to accomplish the feat.
During the second half of the match, Messi managed to score a couple more to bring up his tally to 74 goals. Now, Barcelona's superstar will have one more battle with Cristiano Ronaldo to see who ends up racking more goals in this UEFA Champions League edition.
Of course, fans had a field day talking about this feat by the Argentinian. Find out what some of them had to say!
Lionel Messi (age 27) Top scorer of La Liga ✓ Top scorer of UCL ✓ Top scorer of Clásico ✓ Top scorer of Barcelona ✓ pic.twitter.com/zBMPnioBR7
— Futbol Life (@FutbolLife) November 25, 2014
Messi - 72 gols: 2005/06 - 1 2006/07 - 1 2007/08 - 6 2008/09 - 9 2009/10 - 8 2010/11 - 12 2011/12 - 14 2012/13 - 8 2013/14 - 8 2014/15 - 5
— Site Goleada Info (@goleada_info) November 25, 2014
50th goal of the year, 2 major records broken in 4 days. Yup, sounds like Messi.
— Roy Nemer (@RoyNemer) November 25, 2014
He's done it! Lionel Messi overtakes Raúl and becomes the #UCL's all-time leading scorer! pic.twitter.com/J6vetMvxnx
— Champions League (@ChampionsLeague) November 25, 2014
MESSI can be hinge and also be swing He can assist and he can score He can defend and he can also run with the ball Messi is the best
— Aani ❤ Neymar ❤ (@Aani_Fatima) November 25, 2014
Messi breaks 2 world records in 4 days another World Record. pic.twitter.com/9KBLHxY8Lo
— Leo Messi (@messi10stats) November 25, 2014
Another day, another record broken by Lionel Messi.
— FootyHumour (@FootyHumour) November 25, 2014
Messi is now the highest goal scorer in Champions League history. It's about time he broke a goalscoring record.
— Gary Lineker (@GaryLineker) November 25, 2014
MESSI GOAL MAP | Messi has now scored in 23 different UCL cities #messi72 pic.twitter.com/v2RttdeM5X
— MESSISTATS (@MessiStats) November 25, 2014
Lionel Messi: Games: 539 Goals: 413 Assists: 163 Hat-tricks: 27 Ballon d'Ors: 4 Trophies: 23 Simply The best pic.twitter.com/9MLf4hCZI8
— Leo Messi (@messi10stats) November 25, 2014
2 hat tricks in a row, no penalties. Simply Messi.
— Left Foot (@messileftfoot) November 25, 2014
"Messi, if you play in heaven, I will die to watch you." pic.twitter.com/L15oBtNygi
— Mary. J❤️ (@inMESSlonante) November 25, 2014
Messi will now restart his career and play using the hard difficulty
— The Chief (@BarcaChief) November 25, 2014
In other news: Messi scored his 5th Champions League hat-trick. Needless to say, more than anyone else.
— Gary Lineker (@GaryLineker) November 25, 2014 
