Lionel Messi had 15 goals in 24 appearances against Villarreal in LaLiga in his career.

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Lionel Messi stats vs villarreal in his career

	NAME	DATE	CLUB		OPP	MIN	G	A	XG	XA	PK	FK	SH	SOT	WOOD	TCH	TCH-BOX	OFF	FOUL	YC
1	Lionel Messi L. Messi	12/4/2005	Barcelona	@	Villarreal	80	0				0									0
2	Lionel Messi L. Messi	4/22/2007	Barcelona	@	Villarreal	90	0				0									0
3	Lionel Messi L. Messi	10/20/2007	Barcelona	@	Villarreal	90	0				0									0
4	Lionel Messi L. Messi	12/21/2008	Barcelona	@	Villarreal	90	0				0									0
5	Lionel Messi L. Messi	5/10/2009	Barcelona	vs	Villarreal	89	0				0									0
6	Lionel Messi L. Messi	5/1/2010	Barcelona	@	Villarreal	89	2				0									0
7	Lionel Messi L. Messi	11/13/2010	Barcelona	vs	Villarreal	90	2				0									0
8	Lionel Messi L. Messi	4/2/2011	Barcelona	@	Villarreal	38	0				0									0
9	Lionel Messi L. Messi	8/29/2011	Barcelona	vs	Villarreal	90	2				0									0
10	Lionel Messi L. Messi	1/28/2012	Barcelona	@	Villarreal	90	0				0									0
11	Lionel Messi L. Messi	4/27/2014	Barcelona	@	Villarreal	90	1	0			0									0
12	Lionel Messi L. Messi	8/31/2014	Barcelona	@	Villarreal	90	0	0			0	0	8	4	2	94	0	0	0	0
13	Lionel Messi L. Messi	2/1/2015	Barcelona	vs	Villarreal	90	1	0			0	0	3	2	0	96	0	0	2	0
14	Lionel Messi L. Messi	3/20/2016	Barcelona	@	Villarreal	90	0	0	0.15	0.38	0	0	4	1	0	87	0	1	1	0
15	Lionel Messi L. Messi	1/8/2017	Barcelona	@	Villarreal	90	1	0	0.34	0.39	0	1	6	2	1	85	8	0	0	0
16	Lionel Messi L. Messi	5/6/2017	Barcelona	vs	Villarreal	90	2	0	1.02	0.73	1	0	6	4	0	85	5	0	0	0
17	Lionel Messi L. Messi	12/10/2017	Barcelona	@	Villarreal	90	1	0	1.07	0.28	0	0	6	2	0	116	11	0	1	0
18	Lionel Messi L. Messi	5/9/2018	Barcelona	vs	Villarreal	90	1	0	0.39	0.05	0	0	4	1	0	101	7	1	1	0
19	Lionel Messi L. Messi	12/2/2018	Barcelona	vs	Villarreal	90	0	1	0.38	0.43	0	0	6	4	0	62	3	1	0	0
20	Lionel Messi L. Messi	4/2/2019	Barcelona	@	Villarreal	29	1	0	0.13	0.03	0	1	2	1	0	36	2	0	0	1
21	Lionel Messi L. Messi	9/24/2019	Barcelona	vs	Villarreal	45	0	1	0.01	0.07	0	0	1	0	0	24	4	0	0	0
22	Lionel Messi L. Messi	7/5/2020	Barcelona	@	Villarreal	90	0	2	0.30	0.86	0	0	4	2	1	113	8	0	0	0
23	Lionel Messi L. Messi	9/27/2020	Barcelona	vs	Villarreal	90	1	0	1.61	0.04	1	0	7	4	0	83	14	0	0	0
24	Lionel Messi L. Messi	4/25/2021	Barcelona	@	Villarreal	90	0	0	0.15	0.00	0	0	3	1	0	69	3	0	0	0
	Total					1,990	15				2									1