Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and Neymar make up MSN, Barcelona’s epic strike force that strikes fear in the hearts of defenders all over the world. When they play in the worst conditions, they’re tough competition. But at their best they’re unstoppable. Are they perhaps the greatest striking force football has ever seen?

Recording

Last season, MSN broke the record for total goals scored in a single season with a combination of three players, totaling 122 goals in all competitions. The previous holders were Cristiano Ronaldo, Karim Benzema and Gonzalo Higuain with 118. This season the South American trio of MSN have done it again and, at the time of writing, have combined to score a still-large portion of 100 goals. remaining season. It looks like they could easily beat their record from last season and might have done it sooner had Messi not been out for the previous two months in the campaign.

Suarez can even be classified as the greatest no.9 player in the world at the moment. He continues to improve and his contribution which has scored 26 goals in the league is among the reasons Barcelona are 1/100th in La Liga bets to lift the title. No other team can really come near Barcelona at the moment, and they also seem to have a really strong chance of lifting the Champions League again.

Other Competitors

The closest competitor of this attacking trio is quite possibly the striking power of Barcelona’s fierce rivals, Real Madrid. Their own attacking trio is known as the BBC, and consists of Gareth Bale, Benzema and Ronaldo. This combination includes two of the most costly players in football history and came together well in the great 2013/14 season in which Madrid won the elite competition in Europe for the tenth time.

This season the BBC are far behind MSN in terms of goals scored but they’ve played fewer games as Madrid haven’t featured in the Copa Del Rey this season. The Barcelona trio have made much more appearances than the BBC this season, so the numbers stack up in their favor. If all of these players stay on their team for the next few seasons, there could be an even more thrilling battle to break the goalscoring record.

Future

What’s interesting about this deadly attacking force is that they’re still in the best years of their football career. This is not a bunch of players having their last hurray before retiring, they’re all still developing. These three clearly attract quite a lot of attention from elite clubs all over the world, but it seems it is doubtful that any of them want to move on from the club where they enjoyed great success.

It seems that Messi, Suarez and Neymar will be together for many years to come, and that spells out quite a lot of thrilling, intense and incredible football for the lucky public.