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Monday, January 19, 2015

Gallery: Argentina captain Lionel Messi's 30 Barcelona hat-tricks



13:44 19 January 2015 Copa América
There are few more prolific players on the planet than the four-time Ballon d'Or winner

Lionel Messi has now scored an incredible 30 hat-tricks for Barcelona after his latest treble against Deportivo La Coruna on Sunday.

Here, we delve into the archives and look back at each of the occasions when the Argentina captain has taken the match ball home for his club side.


10/03/2007 – Barcelona 3-3 Real Madrid – Messi notches his first career hat-trick – aged just 19 - when he scores all three in a thrilling 3-3 draw with Real Madrid at Camp Nou.

06/01/2009 – Atletico Madrid 1-3 Barcelona – Scores the first of multiple hat-tricks against Atletico in a Copa del Rey win at the Vicente Calderon.

10/01/2010 – Tenerife 0-5 Barcelona – Begins 2010 with a bang by scoring three in his first La Liga fixture of the year away to Tenerife.

14/03/2010 – Barcelona 3-0 Valencia – Scores all three – including a contender for the 2010 Puskas Award - in a 3-0 defeat of Valencia.

21/03/2010 – Real Zaragoza 2-4 Barcelona – Rattles home another treble as Barcelona rack up an impressive away result at Zaragoza’s La Rosaleda stadium.

06/04/2010 – Barcelona 4-1 Arsenal – Tears Arsene Wenger's Arsenal to pieces with all four in a glittering 4-1 Champions League quarter-final second-leg performance at Camp Nou.

21/08/2010 – Barcelona 4-0 Sevilla – Barcelona emphatically turn around a 3-1 first-leg deficit in the Spanish Super Cup, with Messi scoring a sublime trio of goals in a 4-0 triumph.

20/11/2010 – Almeria 0-8 Barcelona – Lowly Almeria are devastatingly put to the sword with Messi the tormentor in-chief.

12/01/2011 – Barcelona 5-0 Real Betis – Three days after lifting the 2010 Ballon d’Or, Messi returns to business with a hat-trick in a 5-0 Copa del Rey defeat of Betis.

05/02/2011 – Barcelona 3-0 Atletico – Friend and countryman Sergio Aguero watches on from a distance as Messi scores all three in a routine 3-0 win over Atleti.

17/09/2011 – Barcelona 8-0 Osasuna – Barcelona hammer Osasuna at home and naturally Messi is on hand to help himself to three of the eight.

24/09/2011 – Barcelona 5-0 Atletico – Radamel Falcao and Atletico Madrid are put to the sword when Messi continues his phenomenal goalscoring record against los Rojiblancos with another treble in a 5-0 victory.

29/11/2011- Barcelona 5-0 Mallorca – What else can be said? Barca score five, Messi gets three of them.

01/11/2011 – Viktoria Plzen 0-4 Barcelona – Messi goes past the 200-goal mark for Barcelona with three in a 4-0 Champions League tie away to Viktoria Plzen.

22/01/2012 – Malaga 1-4 Barcelona – Messi scores his first hat-trick of his record-breaking year for goals with three in a 4-1 away win at Malaga.

 
19/02/2012 – Barcelona 5-1 Valencia – Four more in a 5-1 hammering of La Liga’s third best team just about summed up Messi and Barcelona’s dominance at this point.

07/03/2012 – Barcelona 7-1 Bayer Leverkusen – Messi becomes the first player to score five goals in a Champions League game when Barcelona destroy Leverkusen 7-1.

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