Lionel Messi History to Score Five Time in a Champions League Match.

A Spain international has expressed his joy of having the chance to feature alongside the 2011 Fifa Ballon d'Or winner after the forward's five-goal showing on Wednesday and the Argentine seal a place in the last eight of the Champions League for the Catalan club and he rewrote the record books in the process and he opened the scoring with a deft chip, cut in from the right to slot home a fine second, added the 3rd with a delightful right-footed lob, slid home a 4th from a tight angle and curled in an impressive 5th as Pep Guardiola's side ran riot.

The Messi season-best total for Barcelona is the 53 he netted last season to tie with Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo in all competitions to he also has 53 goals for club and country so far this term, 48 of them for Barcelona with a potential 19 club games still to play in the Argentine has 93 assists for the Catalan club 73 in the last four seasons and 20 already this term pep guardiola took over as coach at Barca  and the messi has netted an incredible 188 goals in 201 official matches total of the Argentine now has 228 goals for the Catalan club, leaving him just seven short of the all-time Barca record of 235, held by Cesar Rodriguez.

The Lionel Messi is a magnificent player and person in great to have him on our side was overjoyed with his goals and we're very happy with his excellent form of a messi has now scored 49 Champions League goals to Only Thierry Henry (51), Ruud van Nistelrooy (54) and Raul (71) have scored more in European club football elite competition.

I Am Still a Footballer Says Xavi

A midfielder insists he is still fully focused on his playing career and says he believes his former team-mate will carry on as coach at the Catalan club beyond to this summer and the xavi says he has not considered taking over from Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola now or in the future to revealing he is concentrating solely on his playing career at the moment.

The 41-year-old prefers to operate on one-year contracts, admitting he does not know how he will feel in future in Xavi is one of the names linked with taking over when his former team-mate does depart Camp Nou in the midfielder to recently turned 32 still has two more years on his current contract to he will plays 50 per cent or more of the club's games in 2012-13 and 2013-14.

Let me play he told reporters at an event organised by Adidas in Barcelona on Tuesday to i am not even thinking about it coaching to i feel like a footballer, I don't even have a coaching badge to i want to keep playing for many more years to long as my body can last and the xavi believes Guardiola will end up staying at Barca in any case.