Lionel Messi's Copa del Rey statistics is just spectacular

Lionel Messi has achieved some spectacular numbers in the Copa del Rey, a tournament he's won five times with Barcelona.He has played 63 times, 52 as a starter and 11 as a sub, scoring 46 goals. He has played nearly 5,000 minutes (4,997) and earned 43 wins.

Messi's debut was unfortunate, on October 27, 2004, at Gramenet, a game where Rijkaard's Barcelona lost 1-0.

However things quickly improved. He's won 68% of his cup games and scored 0.73 goals per game on average.

His last 16 first legs have historically been superb, in which he's scored 13 goals in 9 games. In quarter final first legs he's got 5 in 9.