VIDEO: Messi delivers another great performance and rewrites history again! You won’t find a better playmaker in the world

Lionel Messi is a target of ridicule and criticism because of the number of goals he has scored this season, but the fact is that despite his “lousy” productivity, he has been performing well, as evidenced by his ratings on statistical servers. And now he has surpassed a famous milestone.

The Argentine superstar has almost completed his first season in France, with only one game left to play. In terms of goals, Lionel Messi has never had a worse season in his career. Still, his first year at PSG cannot be judged as a fiasco.

Overall, Messi has played 33 competitive matches this season, scoring 11 goals and adding 13 assists. He was prevented from scoring several times by the goal structure, and his assists could have been helped more by the star Kylian Mbappé, who scored a lot of goals but also gave away many.

According to WhoScored, Messi is the third best player across the top five European competitions this season. As far as the league only is concerned, despite his stats of 6 goals and 11 assists, he has a rating of 7.73.

Karim Benzema is fourth just like Messi, with only Robert Lewandowski (7.89) and the aforementioned Mbappé (7.98) doing better. In short, it speaks volumes that the star Argentine doesn’t need goals to be valid for his team and to deliver quality performances.

On Saturday night, he helped PSG to a 4-0 win over Montpellier with two goals. However, he again created chances for his teammates.

During the game, the SofaScore statistics server posted a phenomenal stat on social media that perfectly charts Messi’s transformation into a playmaker since the 2015/16 season. It was against Montpellier that Messi created his 200th chance for his teammates in the last 7 league seasons.

And would he have had competition? You can’t say that. The second best is Ángel Di María, who has created 142 chances in the same time. They are followed by Thomas Müller and Kevin De Bruyne (both 129 chances) and Neymar (109 chances).

Source: WhoScored, SofaScore, YouTube