The incredible stat that suggests Barcelona will win the Champions League this season

Barcelona should be on course to winning the Champions League trophy this season if a bizarre Lionel Messi stat is to be trusted. Every time the Argentina International has scored in Barcelona’s opening league game the club have gone on to win the Champions League that season. In the 2008/09 season, Messi scored against Racing, In 2011 Messi again scored against Racing. And in the 2014/15 season, he scored against Elche. Barcelona kicked off their latest league campaign with a 3-0 win over Alaves-and Messi scored an incredible goal.

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