Although not too much thought of, it is undeniable that Messi is great at nutmegging players, which will be today's topic. Nutmegging a player is no easy task, especially when considering that Messi does it regularly in La Liga, the most intense league defensive-wise by far according to some metrics, but maybe that's just his magic. Without further ado, let's get into the numbers.
Even at the young age of 19/20 years, which was the 2006/07 season, he completed 8 nutmegs in La Liga, an impressive amount. He's also gotten double digits in 4 different seasons, and even reached 19 in the 2014/15 season, or one nutmeg every two games, an insane number. In total, he has done 132 nutmegs in La Liga, Since the 2017/18 La Liga season, he topped the number of most nutmegs twice and got second place once. As we can see, he's undeniably the best nutmegger of this generation, if not of all times.
And that's only La Liga, Messi clearly does nutmegs on other competitions as well, like in the Champions League, where he has done 7 nutmegs since the 2018/19 season. Fortunately, there's a video that compiles 125 nutmegs from him. And you know he's terrific at nutmegging players when there's a 10-minute comp of him just doing that.
At the end of the day, Messi's nutmegging abilities come from his other-worldly dribbling, and that can be seen on the pitch often. Hope that information was useful to you and I'll see you all next time.
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