Lionel Messi is well and truly back.
You know the drill: Messi struggled to reach his usual dizzying heights during his first season at Paris Saint-Germain, but has now rediscovered the form that we became used to seeing from him at Barcelona in his sophomore year.
The man himself admitted as such, explaining to Mexican TV station TUDN: “Last year was difficult for me, it was hard after a very big change, after being in the same place for so long.
“The aim [for this season] is clear to everyone. PSG have been eager for a long time to win the Champions League. The elimination last season was very hard because of how it happened because we played two great games against Real Madrid and the tie was lost in small details.”
But Messi has undoubtedly adjusted to life in France now, seldom going a single week without dropping a performance in Ligue 1 that gets football fans rubbing their hands together.
With the steady hand of Christophe Galtier in the dugout, Messi is finally clicking with Kylian Mbappe and Neymar in the ways that the Parc des Princes faithful were crying out for last season.
As such, Messi now stands with a formidable record of seven goals and eight assists from his first 12 games of a campaign that could well propel him into contention for an astonishing eighth Ballon d’Or next year.
And you certainly wouldn’t want to rule out the likelihood of that occurring based on the evidence of his latest outing for the French champions against Nice on Saturday night.
Not only did the 35-year-old get the party started in remarkable style with his first free-kick goal for PSG, but he also dropped his umpteen-thousandth stunning overall performance of 2022/23 for good measure.
In fact, it was a particularly
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