{"id":18970,"date":"2024-11-26T09:26:16","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T09:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/?p=18970"},"modified":"2024-11-26T09:26:16","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T09:26:16","slug":"can-gyokeres-match-messis-record-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/?p=18970","title":{"rendered":"Can Gyokeres match Messi's record season?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Gyokeres has netted 24 goals in 17 Sporting games this season. <\/p>\n

Messi had scored 22 goals after the same amount of Barca games in 2011-12. <\/p>\n

Spread over the course of the season, Sporting’s Swede is netting a goal every 65 minutes compared to Messi’s one every 72 then.<\/p>\n

Their Champions League rates are fairly even with Messi scoring 14 goals in 11 games – to Gyokeres’ five goals in four matches this season.<\/p>\n

For Gyokeres to play the 60 games that Messi managed that season, Sporting would have to go all the way in Portugal’s two domestic cups and the Champions League.<\/p>\n

If their Champions League form drops, and they finish between ninth and 24th, they would play an additional two games in a play-off round – so that would give him a maximum of 62.<\/p>\n

But all that relies on Gyokeres playing every game for Sporting. <\/p>\n

Messi missed four games for Barcelona in 2011-12. Barcelona, who played in the Uefa Super Cup and Club World Cup that season too, played in every game possible – except the Champions League final, losing at the last-four stage.<\/p>\n

Gyokeres has scored nine goals in six Nations League games for Sweden too – with another four games to come this season. <\/p>\n

Messi netted nine goals in nine games for Argentina in 2011-12. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Source: <\/em> www.bbc.com\u2026<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gyokeres has netted 24 goals in 17 Sporting games this season. Messi had scored 22 goals after the same amount of Barca games in 2011-12. Spread over the course of the season, Sporting’s Swede is netting a goal every 65 minutes compared to Messi’s one every 72 then. Their Champions League rates are fairly even […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}