Lionel Messi celebrated matching Xavi’s appearance record for Barcelona in some style on Monday night with another superb performance that yielded two goals and an assist.
The first was a quite brilliant effort to open the scoring early on. Messi showed a superb first touch and then followed it up with a clinical finish into the top corner.
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The captain then went on to tee up Oscar Mingueza for his first Barcelona goal before completing the scoring with a low strike to make it 4-1 late on.