Topics: Lionel Messi, Barcelona, La Liga
The Argentinian ace has scored three hat-tricks in his last four games for Barcelona.

This season so far, Barcelona fans have seen Lionel Messi break several records, namely becoming the all-time top scorer in La Liga and the Champions League within one impressive week just last month.

The talismanic attacker netted two hat-tricks as his team cruised to wins over Sevilla and then Cyprus outfit APOEL and now in the Catalan derby vs. Espanol, grabbed himself another treble of goals.

Although their cross-town rivals has momentarily taken the lead through Sergio Garcia's early striker, the feeling was that they would not enjoy it for much longer due to the gulf in class between the two sides. And once Messi got going, he was simply unstoppable.

Barca's first goal to equalize was vintage Messi after being set up by Xavi at the edge of the box:

 

The second, assisted by Luis Suarez, showed that the Argentinian star can score with his weaker foot:

 

And the third was the icing on the cake on a great showing by La Pulga:

This means that the 27-year-old has scored an impressive three hat-tricks in just four games and has 21 so far in La Liga.

And not surprisingly, social media went wild after the Messi show at Camp Nou.