The Day Lionel Messi Scored 5 Goals In The Champions League

Barcelona have a 3-1 first leg advantage over Bayer Leverkusen in this Champions League round of 16. The Germans need a miracle at the Nou Camp. Let's join our commentators there. Coach of Bayer Leverkusen is plotting to beat Barcelona at the Nou Camp. It's a bit like that. Normally it's the uncertainty of football that gives it its sense of drama. Alexis Sanchez scored his second goal of the night to reaffirm Barcelona's... ...to Dani Alves. Now Lionel Messi. Messi. Now Pedro. Dropping in there. It's Fabregas venturing in there. It's Xavi making a run. Fabregas. Cut forward towards Lionel Messi. Brilliant control for a save of the night. Jab back and a chance for Pedro. Fantastic block. Fabregas though to Iniesta. He's asked too much of Adriano but... ...suddenly the whole tempo and pace of the game changed. Messi. Iniesta tried to... Messi has space and inevitably Dani Alves at his shoulder. Here's Alves. Pedro waits in the... Iniesta. Messi. Iniesta. He's aware of the reverse ball. It's Messi. Now it says Fabregas. And it's in towards Dani Alves. Nervous when they get the ball. They don't expect to have it. Messi into Iniesta. It's a good cross from Renato Augusto. No flag here. Lionel Messi is clear. Messi. He's trying to loft it in. And anything that Messi tries, Messi can do. He just never ever disappoints. Goal after goal after goal. And so many of them quite breathtaking in their execution. Lionel Messi again. Games for club and country so far this season. 49 goals. You know he tried that once or twice in the first leg. He hit the post on one occasion where he looped it over the goalkeeper. But there's another meaning of the word panic, doesn't he? When he goes through one on one. Again, he bends his run. He's clearly onside just enough. And at this moment now, he's always favouring. It's just whether or not he's going to dance around the goalkeeper or do that. He just scoops. Messi somehow. Lionel Messi. Well to get to him, it was Umair Toprak who made the block. Lionel Messi. Iniesta. Now Messi. He's waiting his moment to pull the trigger. Stepping past. Potential blocker after potential blocker. And when he was ready. Finally in the corner of the net. It's Messi too. Finally because no. You just sense. That something special is going to happen when. Iniesta actually starts to apply a bit of pace. To that fantastic control on the ball. And then once Messi has it. He goes past. One, two, three. And then. Just. Lionel has no chance. He doesn't really know when the shot is coming. Messi. Pedro. Lionel did well. Not once but twice. Brilliant. Brilliant play. Fabregas and Messi there. But against a very. Fabregas. Messi. Fabregas. Well he would insist on one more pass. Tried to roll it across the six yard box didn't he Fabregas. Fabregas. Forward towards Lionel Messi. He's onside. Another chip. Another goal. The hat trick. Another royal command performance. From the best footballer on the planet. I don't think whatsoever that Ben Laino and Bayer Leverkusen can do. To spoil the show. Lionel Messi's eighth hat trick of the season. The one in the first half. I think. There was always the chance that he would scoop that. As he did over Laino. He's got the ball again. He's waiting for a tap in. Messi. Pedro. And gets the return. Oh he looks. Marist. About that goal. I'm not quite sure. How he found the ball at his feet. But we were all sure what was going to happen. He knows it was there. He could have given up. He could have expected. Messi. Pass to Messi. Fabregas. Messi. The rhythm and the approach never changes. Messi. That should be the fourth longest serving manager in Barcelona history. Come the end of the season. They don't. He's never scored five goals in a Champions League match. Messi. To Keita. Messi. And Pedro. And into Keita. Just couldn't quite catch up with it. Just couldn't get on the end of that cross. It's in fastball. But again all in this. Better team on the night. Keita. And here's Messi. It's Champions League history. For Lionel Messi. Nobody has ever scored five goals in a Champions League match before. But nobody has ever played Champions League football quite like Lionel Messi. Standing ovation. Natural talent that he has and that he possesses. You think whoever he's playing for it will all come so. He wins incredible. Amazing. It's been an exhibition. Another Lionel Messi exhibition. Five more goals to add to his dizzy total. He is consistent as he is brilliant. Another record. Another virtuoso display by Leverkusen. Cut to pieces by a team intent on defending their European title. They will take some beating.