Lionel Messi"s record-breaking 2012 – month by month, game by game

Month by month, goal by goal... The diary of Messi's extraordinary record-breaking year | UPDATED: 21:27 GMT, 9 December 2012 He's done it! Lionel Messi needed just 25 minutes of Barcelona's match at Real Betis to surpass Gerd Muller's long-standing record for goalscoring in a calendar year. The Argentine magician needed to reach the magic number of 86 strikes for club and country and he wasted little time in achieving it