Lionel Messi's Recent Heroics shows Koeman is Purposefully Stiffling Him

With turn of the new year, Lionel Messi has come back to his usual self scoring goals and terrorizing opposition. Let's take a look at what went right for Barcelona's captain so suddenly.

It all starts to come back slowly, atleast for Lionel Messi. The turn of New Year has brought a new Lionel Messi, who is sudddenly once again the greatest player on earth. He currently leads the La Liga scoring charts, in a season which is considered his worst ever!

Barcelona still is a long way away from making a legitimate challenge for League, but if Messi has unleashed himself, we all could dream. But what happened so suddenly that we see a different Lionel Messi.

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Why Middlesbrough Aren't Missing Barcelona's Unlikely Star Martin Braithwaite

February 2020: Signs for Barcelona and says it's a dream come true

June 2020: Scores his first goal for the club

Martin Braithwaite is living the dream 🙏 pic.twitter.com/StIX0zhtNP

— B/R Football (@brfootball) June 13, 2020

The story of Martin Braithwaite going from EFL Championship club Middlesbrough to signing for Barcelona in the space of 13 months is one of football's most curious.

Driven by necessity, that mother of invention, the Catalan giants got special dispensation to sign the Denmark forward from lowly Leganes, who went on to be relegated without him. An injury crisis at the Camp Nou left Barca short on attacking options if you can believe it, and a release clause of €18,000,000 seemed a small price to pay for a stop-gap solution.

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Barcelona’s path back to the Spanish La Liga title

Barcelona have experienced an average season by their high standards and they have already dropped points in eight of their 17 La Liga games. That sees them already seven points behind league leaders Atletico Madrid and the deficit could extend further with Diego Simeone's side having two games in hand.

Hence, the Blaugrana face a stiff task of reclaiming the Spanish crown and they find themselves in a position where they could miss out on the title for the second season running, something which has not happened to them since 2008 when Real Madrid won the league for successive years under two different managers in Fabio Capello and Bernd Schuster.

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