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Shoutout Javier Mascherano. Javy has played for a team that, over the last 3 seasons, has scored over 480 goals, won 9 different Championships, and played 174 games. Yet in his 319th appearance, Javy Mascherano finally gets his first ever Barcelona goal. If that isn’t the saddest stat you’ve seen today, I wouldn’t even want to the read the other. The poor guy has played, 568 total games in his club career, and has only scored 6 goals. Good god what a shame. Is he a defender? Yes. Did he used to be a Midfielder? Yeah. Is he a player for the best team in the world, and is surrounded by some of the best players in the world? Yes. Can he press up the field at least once all game, FUCK YES! I mean, he’s a great defender, one of the better ones in the world, but, you cannot tell me that in 7 years of watching Messi score 375 goals in that span, you haven’t wanted to score just 1. No less, you have played in games where Barca plays a scrub team and murders them by 5 goals. Fucking Messi couldn’t have let you score once?
But what a great moment for Mascherano. In a 7-1 thrashing of Osasuna, Javier Mascherano was called upon to shoot a penalty to push the score to 6-1. Poor Javi had to score on a penalty rather than in live play. He had a chance just 3 minutes earlier but, that rat fuck Paco Alcacer stole his shot. What an asshole. Mascherano calmly puts the ball through the net and nearly rips a hole in the roof of the goal net.
Even though it was a penalty, everybody and they mama knew it would be his first goal ever. Nice to see the Barca bench laughing and applauding Mascherano for his goal. Even the crowd was bumping just before he shot it. Nice to see him score so we’ll look back at his Golazoooo vs Reading in 2008.
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