Barcelona vs Granada: Messi proved yet again why he is simply the best as he not only helped Barcelona with his hat-trick close on rivals Real Madrid, he is now the top scorer ever in Barcelona history. Watch Barcelona vs Granada Highlights

Barcelona / NationalTurk – Barcelona vs Granada La Liga game saw Barcelona’s 8th win in their 8th game but Lionel Messi outshined in the Barca victory with a stunning hat-trick, which marked his 234th goal for FC Barcelona, more than even the legendary Barca player César.

The defending La Liga champions won an entertaining and action-packed La Liga game at Camp Nou against Granada the result 5-3 in Barcelon vs Granada game put the Catalans close within five points of current La Liga leaders Barcelona’s arch-rivals, Real Madrid.

Barcelona vs Granada : Messi breaks yet another record

The Argentine World Player of 2011 set a all-times Spanish record of 54 goals in all competitions with more than two months of the La Liga and Copa Del Rey campaigns remaining with his sixth league treble of the season. Messi also overhauled Cristiano Ronaldo to top the La Liga scoring charts with 34 goals, two more than the arguablly equally good Real forward.

With only being 24 years young Messi is en route to earning an unprecedented 4th straight World Player award and achieved his latest scoring feat after becoming the first man to net five goals in a Champions League match earlier this month.

Barcelona vs Granada match win was Barcelona’s eight out of eight victory. Barca defeated Granada at the nowadays eveyy match day packed Camp Nou in a game that will be remembered above all else for Messi.

Barcelona vs Granada : Messi and co in another superb game

Barcelona only needed four minutes and one chance to go put themselves front. A nice piece of combination play was completed with a Cuenca cross from the left, off which Messi supplied the ball to Xavi, who came in from behind to score. Granada had barely touched the ball and the Catalans were already in front.

Barcelona vs Granada : Watch the game highlights and how Messi breaks another record

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After Barca captain Xavi had made it 1-0 and Messi had added a second, nobody imagined that the second half of a rainy night at the Camp Nou was going to be so action-packed, in which Granada, like Betis earlier this season, managed to cancel out a two-goal deficit vs Barcelona.

Tuesday’s hat-trick by Messi took his tally to an incredible 17 goals in his last seven games for Barcelona.

Barcelona vs Granada : Guardiola comments on Messi

‘ I feel sorry for those who want to occupy his throne but this lad is simply the best,’ Barcelona manager Pep Guardiola could not resist to praise his player at the post-game press conference.

Guardiola added this remarkable praise after Messi’s outstanding performance in the La liga game Barcelona vs Granada :

‘ Michael Jordan dominated Basketball, Messi does the same in football. There’s nothing more to say.’

Real Madrid who flourished under management of Jose Mourinho is going to play their La Liga game in hand at Villarreal on Wednesday and have 71 points from 27 matches. Barcelona, chasing a fourth successive title, have 66 from 28 games.

Messi, cool as ever with another stunning finish what he seems to have polished to perfection, wrote the latest chapter of his own amazing story. His goal not only knocked the wind out of a momentarily resuscitated Granada, but also Cristian Tello then added another, before the Argentinean hyper star completed his tenth hat-trick this season at La Liga to once again proved why he is, quite simply, the greatest footballer in the world atm. Not even the third Granada goal, their second penalty of the night and which also saw Dani Alves sent off, was enough to dampen the spirits on such a historic evening match Barcelona vs Granada.

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