Barcelona’s Argentine prodigy Lionel Messi stormed to the top of the FTBL absolute ranking with flashes of his dazzling talent as the Catalans defeated Mexico’s Atlante 3:1 to make it to the final of the Club World Cup in the UAE yesterday.
Messi came off the bench in the 53rd minute and almost immediately took advantage of a brilliant pass from Zlatan Ibrahimovic to score the second goal for the Spanish giants. He picked up 21.08 rating points in the FTBL system and is now the highest rated player in the world with a score of 224.74 points.
Messi has now scored in 3 games in a row and has added more than 80 rating points in our system in those games. His planks to beat in his next 2 games will be 13 and 6 rating points, respectively, which suggest his score is likely to rise even higher.
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