The result was 1-1 at the break (a superb free-kick from Messi), but in the second half Barça moved up a gear, scoring five goals (a hat-trick from Suárez, Rakitic and Neymar). As La Pulga enters his fourteenth season with Barça, his teammate Neymar has chosen to leave the club to join Paris Saint-Germain. Held back by a broken arm suffered on October 20, he missed the first Clasico of the season and when he returned, could not prevent his team's unexpected defeat against Betis, despite a double (3-4). While he has the best individual statistics of the year (41 goals, including ten free kicks, and 15 assists), Messi only finished fifth in the 2018 Ballon d'Or ranking, behind Luka Modrić, Cristiano Ronaldo, Antoine Griezmann and Kylian Mbappe. It thus allows Argentina to hang a third star on its jersey, thirty-six years after Diego Maradona and his family in Mexico. On the 31st day, FC Barcelona faces its runner-up Atlético Madrid.

At the end of the championship, Barcelona finished second behind Real Madrid. Also co-best passer in the championship, he won the Di Stéfano Trophy for best player in La Liga for the sixth time. European Golden Boot for the fourth time and the Di Stéfano Trophy for the best player in La Liga. He is playing with Argentina in a fourth World Cup in 2018 in Russia. Related articles: Top scorers in the Spanish football championship, the Champions League and in one season. On the 14th, Barça won the victory on the ground of the newly promoted SD Eibar thanks to a double from Messi (27th day of the championship). Thanks to this victory, Barcelona secures its participation in the next Champions League. On May 1, 2019, lewandowski jersey Barcelona face Liverpool in the Champions League semi-final first leg. On 8 May 2017, Tottenham Hotspur confirmed a return to Hong Kong to take part in an exhibition match against Kitchee SC which closes Tottenham Hotspur's season. The next match is the North London Derby against Arsenal, the first being played at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

Note: the order of the days is that in which they were played. This concept of four doors is the defining quality of the tetrapyle, with four pillars (or other similar structures) placed in the corners in order to delimit them. As a result of these remarks, Messi is suspended for a period of three months. The first rewards the best player of the past calendar year and is awarded by a panel of international journalists specializing in women's football voting from a list of 20 selected, while the second crowns the best player under the age of 21 in the calendar year has passed and is awarded by past Ballon d'Or winners who choose from 10 nominees. He finished for the 4th in five years in second place for the Ballon d'Or behind Cristiano Ronaldo, again European champion with Real. At AC Milan, Leonardo joins a rich squad of international players such as Paolo Maldini, Marcel Desailly, Patrick Kluivert, Dejan Savićević, Zvonimir Boban or the Golden Ball George Weah. Winner of 5 Golden Balls. Barça started the season against Real Madrid in the Spanish Super Cup and lost both games (1-3, 2-0), with Messi scoring his team's only goal.

In 1997, Leonardo wore number 10 in the national team and won the Copa América. His record became considerable in 2009, when he won the La Liga, Copa del Rey and Champions League treble with his team, an unprecedented feat in the history of Spanish football, then the same year, the Spanish Super Cup, the Spanish Super Cup Europe and the Club World Cup. The following years allowed him to complete his record, with a La Liga and a Spanish Super Cup in 2010, then a fivefold the following year, the King's Cup escaping only the Catalan club, beaten in the final by Real Madrid. However, following five games in a row where Tottenham took only one point (draw against Arsenal), the London club was disqualified for the title. Argentina, vice-champion, conceded a disappointing draw against Iceland (1-1, Messi seeing a penalty saved by the goalkeeper), then lost heavily against Croatia (0-3). A victory over Nigeria (2-1, with a goal from Messi) narrowly gave them qualification in the round of 16.