Jan
11
2010

Superb Hatrick from Messi takes Barcelona back on top

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Messi hatrick takes Barcelona back on top in La Liga

After having a disappointing start of the year, Lionel Messi made is sure that he would make this night special for him and for Barcelona. The first goal for Lionel Messi for the year 2010 and he converted it into hatrick

Real Madrid who were able to grab the top spot tonight after beating Mallorca, but Lionel Messi hatrick took Barcelona top of the table again.

Lionel Messi simply had an amazing night, scoring three brilliant goal and a superb free kick which was converted into goal by Puyol. Although Tenerife played superbly for the first half and hour where Barcelona had to work hard, but after the dead lock was broken, it was Barcelona who were completely in control.

After keeping Barcelona quite for 35th minute, Bojan made some magical move towards the penalty area and made a superb pass to Lionel Messi who struck the ball in the far corner of the net to grab the first goal for Barcelona. Then in the 44th minute, Messi took a superb freekick which was headed past the goalkeeper by Captain Puyol to made it 2-0 for Barcelona. Just a minute later, Iniesta a superb through ball to Bojan who again gave a superb assist to Messi to get his second goal of the match.

Barcelona continued the same form in the second half, controlling the ball and creating chances and then a brilliant Barcelona moves where Bojan taking the ball towards the penalty area, and pass the ball towards Messi, who made a brilliant chip over the goalkeeper head to complete Lionel First hat-rick of the year

Last goal came from Luna, who was trying to grab the ball from Pedro but instead the ball went past the goalkeeper.

It was really good to see Bojan playing the full 90 minute, would have surely given him a boost, he gave all the three assist to Messi which was really great

Messi have started his goals for this year with a hatrick and hopefully he will continue in similar fashion for the rest of his career