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MADRID -- By himself, Lionel Messi has already scored more than Real Madrids top three forwards combined. Brian Westbrook Womens Jersey .The Barcelona star is off to one of the best starts of his career with 14 goals in 11 matches, two more than what Cristiano Ronaldo, Gareth Bale and Karim Benzema have netted so far with Madrid.And Messi has done it despite being sidelined for three weeks because of an injury.Messi has been superb, Barcelona coach Luis Enrique said simply.The Argentina forward hadnt started a season with so many goals since 2011-12, when he scored 14 times in 10 matches.So far, Messi has already scored eight more goals than he did last season at the same point. He has two hat tricks and is the leading scorer in both the Spanish league and the Champions League. In his last six games, he has scored 11 goals, with six coming in the three games he played since recovering from a right groin strain.Messis rivals at Madrid have not come close to him this season.Ronaldo has nine goals, but that includes five with Portugal in World Cup qualifying. He is currently in a slump in the Spanish league with only two in six matches.I prefer that he always scores two or three goals a game but Im not worried, Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane said Tuesday. Hes not scoring with the chances that hes getting at the moment but the important thing is that hes getting chances. Hell score soon and everyone will relax.Benzema scored his fourth goal of the season in a Spanish league game last weekend, while Bale has netted seven times in 14 appearances. Three of his goals came in three World Cup qualifiers with Wales.Seven of Messis goals this season were scored in the Spanish league, with one in the Spanish Super Cup and six from a couple of hat tricks in the Champions League.The current form could leave the 29-year-old forward in position to again win the Ballon dOr award for the worlds best player. He has already won the award five times, including last season.Messis great scoring start is somewhat of a surprise because in the last few years he has taken more of a playmaker role after the additions of Luis Suarez and Neymar. The trio broke scoring records in each of the last two seasons, with Suarez leading the way last season. The Uruguay striker has opened with 10 goals in 13 appearances, while Neymar has found the net six times in 10 matches this season.Barcelona plays Espanyol in the Catalonia Super Cup on Tuesday, but neither Messi nor any of the other regular starters will be playing.Messis next chance to increase his goal tally will likely be Saturday against last-place Granada, a team that has already conceded 23 goals in nine Spanish league matches.---Tales Azzoni on Twitter: http://twitter.com/tazzoni. His work can be found at http://bigstory.ap.org/content/tales-azzoni Chuck Bednarik Jersey . -- Vincent Lecavalier got everything but the desired result in his return to Tampa Bay. Clayton Thorson Womens Jersey .Y. -- Canadas Kaillie Humphries and Heather Moyse have another World Cup gold medal after winning the two-women bobsled race on Saturday in Lake Placid, N. http:///...edert-Eagles-Jersey/ . Kiriasis and brakeman Franziska Fritz finished two runs in one minute 55.41 seconds -- a mere 0.01 seconds ahead of Meyers and Lolo Jones, who likely bolstered her Olympic hopes by helping give USA-1 a huge push in the second heat. INDIANAPOLIS -- Danica Patrick likes her helmet to look the same every week.Shes worn the same design with rare exceptions for two decades, but will have a different look at on race day at the Brickyard 400 on Sunday. So having a different helmet only once in more than the last 10 years, her Brickyard 400 helmet for Sunday certainly will give her a little different look on race day.To celebrate her 20-year anniversary with Troy Lee Designs, Patrick has a helmet that has silver and gold leaf accents on it.I said it would be really cool if we did a special paint out and we thought Indy would be a perfect place to have that given the fact that I have had so much history here, said Patrick, who finished third in the 2009 Indianapolis 500. Andre Dillard Youth Jersey. Troy just drew it up, and I said, Draw whatever you want. ... This is Troy just letting his mind wander.Patrick ran a special Dan Wheldon memorial helmet in November 2011, the only time since 2005 she had a different helmet in the last decade. She also changed it once earlier in her career from the original version -- much like the one worn by Paul Tracy -- to make it more of her own.The back of the helmet is inscribed:It only took 20 years and 314 races to try something new. Thanks for the all fast times. ' ' '