Messi's love affair with the woodwork LaLiga - Barcelona Hit it 13 times this season

With 20 goals scored, Lionel Messi is the undisputed Pichichi in the league, but his figures would be even greater if he had not already hit the woodwork on 13 occasions.

It's more than any other player and also more than he has managed in previous seasons.

After hitting the post against Alaves, Messi surpass his personal best from 2014/15, when he had 12 shots that ended up crashing into the post or bar.

We must also keep in mind that there are still another 17 Matchdays to come in the 2017/18 edition of LaLiga.

Last season he only added six, the same figure as Cristiano Ronaldo has managed in this campaign, and who is second to Messi in this particular ranking.

In any case, the Argentine is still well in the lead to become the Pichichi for a fifth time.

With this figure, he would equal the number of trophies that Di Stefano, Hugo Sanchez and Quini won, and would be only one short of Telmo Zarra's six.

The matches in which Messi was most unlucky were against Betis on the first day of the campaign, and against Deportivo on Matchday 16.