Barcelona thrashes Levante 5-0, with hat trick by Messi
Xinhua, February 16, 2015 Adjust font size:
Barcelona on Sunday thrashed Levante 5-0 including three goals by Argentine star Lionel Messi in Spain's La Liga match played in Barcelona's Camp Nou in front of 75,000 audience.
Levante could not hold up the force of Barcelona, whose first goal was scored by Brazilian Neymar at minute 17 after a fine play with Messi.
Later, the Argentine star scored the second at minute 37.
The team led by Luis Enrique totally dominated the first half and also the second half to confirm their superiority.
Messi scored Barcelona's third goal at minute 58 and later scored again a penalty at minute 63 to reach 26 goals during the current La Liga season, just two goals below Real Madrid's Portuguese star Cristiano Ronaldo who has 28.
After his penalty goal, both Messi and Ronaldo have scored 23 hat-tricks in the La Liga.
At minute 70, Uruguayan star Luis Suarez replaced Neymar to score Barcelona's fifth goal with a fantastic bicycle kick.
Barcelona displayed one of its finest matches of the season and is now in La Liga's second place with 56 points, below the leader Atletico de Madrid (57). Endi