Cristiano Ronaldo may be the odds-on favorite to win the Ballon d’Or, but Lionel Messi is not going out without a fight.
Messi scored hat-trick and added a scoring record to the annals of his personal achievement, and he has made a habit of doing both of those things recently. Just over the weekend, Messi scored another hat-trick and broke a different scoring record. Then it was La Liga’s scoring record, now it is the Champion’s League’s all-time scoring record.
In fact, every time that Lionel Messi has broken a scoring record, he has done it while scoring a hat-trick.
Image: Messi has surpassed all his main goal records by scoring a hat-trick #fcblive [via @espndatos] pic.twitter.com/0mFXMZoZgF
— barcastuff (@barcastuff) November 25, 2014
As far as Lionel Messi hat-tricks go, his latest was fairly pedestrian. We know that “hat-trick” and “pedestrian” are rarely used in the same sentence, but have a look for yourself and tell us if you disagree.
His first,...
...second,...
...and third.
If it wasn’t for their record breaking nature, it is entirely possible that Messi could have forgotten one, two, or maybe even all three goals before the post-match press conference, but we have a feeling he’ll remember the record breaking first goal for a long, long time.
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