Barcelona forward, Lionel Messi hit three goals against Leganes on Saturday night for his 45th career hattrick for club and country.
The 30-year-old has also scored 12 goals in his last nine appearances for the club.
For his first goal, Messi scored a superb free-kick goal from his favourite left-hand side of the pitch, his sixth in the league this season.
He was soon to follow with a trademark Messi strike when he collected the ball from a beautiful Philippe Coutinho pass, shook off a defender and buried it beyond Ivan Cuellar’s reach.
Nabil El Zhar pulled one back for the visitors to raise the fans’ hopes of good going home with a point.
Despite Leganes’s resistance however, Messi grabbed a third after Ivan Rakitic found Ousmane Dembele who crossed to Jordi Alba, who dummied it to allow it fall across Messi’s path.
The Argentine wasted no time in dispatching the ball into the Leganes’s net, for the Blaugrana’s 31st league game this season without a defeat.
The game also extended Barcelona’s unbeaten run in La Liga to 38 games, equally Real Sociedad’s record set in the 1979/1980 season.