02/22/2020 - 14:59
- Clarín.com
- sports
The 5-0 win that Barcelona endorsed Eibar in the Camp Nou by the 25th date of the League of Spain will become part of the large statistical book of Lionel Messi, who scored four goals in the triumph of his team. It was the fifth time that Rosario signed a poker in the League and the sixth time he did it with the Barsa jacket.
The first time the captain of the team shouted four goals on the same day was not for the local tournament, but for the European Champions League. It was April 6, 2010, when the team that led Josep Guardiola then defeated the English Arsenal 4-1 in the second leg of one of the quarterfinals of the European Champions League.
It must have been almost two years for the dose to be repeated, although this time it was for the League. The victim was Valencia, who in Camp Nou had started winning with a shout from Pablo Piatti. But Messi's scoring fury turned that 0-1 into a 4-1. The beating was closed by Xavi Hernández.
Three months later, it was up to Espanyol in the derby corresponding to the penultimate date of that season. Leo made the four in the 4 to 0 that served as farewell to Josep Guardiola, who on May 5, 2012 directed for the last time at Barsa at the Camp Nou.
In the following season and again at home, Messi made four to Osasuna on January 27, 2013 in the 5 to 1 victory by the 21st date. Then they had to spend four and a half years until the next poker: on September 29, 2017 in the 6 to 1 victory over Eibar, the same rival who suffered this Saturday.
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Anyway, none of these is the maximum record of the Flea, who came to shout five goals in one night. It was on March 8, 2012, in the 7 to 1 victory against Bayer Leverkusen for the return of the round of 16. In that season of the main tournament of clubs of the Old Continent, Leo totaled 14 shouts.
