Messi the first player to hit 1,000 goal contributions

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The Barcelona captain scored four against Eibar on Saturday

Lionel Messi hit yet another landmark on Saturday when he became the first player to hit 1,000 goal contributions after netting four times against Eibar.

The Barcelona captain now has 696 goals and 306 assists for club and country in his glittering career.

696 goals.
306 assists.

Lionel Messi has now scored or assisted more than 1,000 goals for club and country pic.twitter.com/Z1vGsjACDE

— B/R Football (@brfootball) February 22, 2020

Messi went into Saturday’s match without a goal in his last four games but had three by the 40-minute mark as he completed his 54th career hat-trick and his fourth first-half hat-trick.

Safe to say Messi is the hat-trick king pic.twitter.com/6YN1haKJBH

— Goal (@goal) February 22, 2020

⚽⚽⚽ - Messi scores his 54th career hat-trick (club & country) and his 4th in the FIRST HALF.

Eibar 2020
Sevilla 2013
Mallorca 2011
Arsenal 2010#FCBEIB

— Gracenote Live (@GracenoteLive) February 22, 2020

The Barcelona captain has also taken the match ball home against against Real Mallorca and Celta Vigo this season, making Saturday’s the third hat-trick of 2019-20.

Lionel Messi has now scored a hat-trick of hat-tricks in LaLiga this season:

vs. Celta Vigo
vs. Mallorca
vs. Eibar

Every other player in the division combined has one. pic.twitter.com/47c02u8zTI

— Squawka Football (@Squawka) February 22, 2020

GOAT.

Source: barcablaugranes.com