18 games, 28 goals. In an amazing second half to the campaign, Lionel Messi scored 28 goals in a Barça shirt, an improvement on the already impressive 22 goals he had scored in the first half. This number was considerably more than some recent Pichichi winners, including Güiza, Van Nistelrooy and Eto’o, managed to score in an entire season.
Messi became the top scorer in the second part of championship goal seeing up to 28 times in the league