Ahead of the Copa del Rey final, Goal takes a look at the clubs the Barcelona star has had the most success against

Lionel Messi has scored over 600 goals in his career but which opposition does he like to score against the most?

Goal has taken a look through the record books to compile the list of which Spanish clubs he has enjoyed scoring the most goals again.

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  17Almeria | 13 goals

  Against Almeria, Messi has scored 13 goals in 12 appearances. He and Barcelona have won 11 of these games and drawn only one. In addition, Messi scored one of his best goals against Almeria in 2015 with a curling effort from the edge of the box.

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  16Malaga | 13 goals

  Malaga are currently bottom of La Liga but that hasn’t stopped them from keeping Messi out recently. The Argentine has only scored once in his last seven appearances against Malaga, scoring the winning goal in January 2016. Of the 13 goals he has scored against Malaga, six of them came in the 2011/12 season after hitting hat-tricks both home and away.

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  15Villarreal | 13 goals

  13 goals in 21 games isn’t a fantastic record for Messi considering his overall exploits, but that is still a record of 0.61 goals per game. Messi again pulled level with Gerd Muller by hitting his 525th goal for Barcelona in all competitions against Villarreal to equal the German’s record of most goals for a single club set at Bayern Munich.

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  14Real Zaragoza | 14 goals

  Messi has scored 14 in 16 against Zaragoza. When he scored a hat-trick against Zaragoza in 2010, it was the first time that Messi had hit back-to-back trebles in La Liga.

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