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#1 Becoming the scourge of the Bernabeu - 23 April, 2017
With 26 Clasico goals, Messi is the most potent striker in the history of the fixture and quite frankly, fans of Real Madrid are tired of seeing him line up for their eternal rivals.
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The 32-year-old seems to have a penchant for the Santiago Bernabeu, with almost 60% of his El Clasico goals coming at the home of the capital club.
Perhaps the most iconic of those came in injury time of a keenly contested fixture in April 2017, with an in-form Real Madrid having endured a routine red card to Sergio Ramos to equalise through James Rodriguez with just five minutes remaining.
They would have thought this was enough to halt a poor run of home defeats to the Blaugrana but Messi had other ideas, scoring a winner in the second minute of injury time to sink Real Madrid hearts.
To run insult to injury, the Rosario native took off his shirt and cheekily showed the Bernabeu crowd his name and jersey number, as though they needed any reminder of the man who has caused them so much grief over the last decade.
