Barcelona maestro Lionel Messi is back to scoring after a mini 4 La Liga games drought. On Saturday, Messi scored four goals in Barcelona's 5-0 rout of Eibar in their most recent La Liga outing. Messi scored his first 14 minutes into the game - a brilliant individual goal in which Messi danced past three players to find the back of the net. Messi clinically converted a Sergio Busquets pass in the 37th minute in his second goal. He completed his goal treble two minutes later - a tap-in of a good pass by Ivan Rakitic. In summary, Messi registered a spectacular hat-trick in the space of 26 minutes. Barcelona's latest signing Martin Braithwaite provided the assist for Messi's fourth goal. Arthur Melo scored Barcelona's fifth in the 89th minute, netting a rebound shot by Martin Braithwaite. Messi has now scored 48 hat-tricks in his club career (excluding Champions League and others), surpassing Cristiano Ronaldo's hat-trick total of 47. Messi is also La Lig
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