Lionel Messi became only the sixth player in history to have bagged four goals in a UEFA Champions League match.
The Argentine's four-goal haul against Arsenal on Tuesday night took his team into the semi-finals and also won him another new record to go along with it.
Only five other players have managed the same feat namely, Marco Van Basten, Dado Prso, Ruud Van Nistelrooy, Andrei Shevchenko and Simone Inzaghi.
Van Basten's goals came against IFK Gothenburg back in 1992 while playing for AC Milan.
It took another eight years before Lazio's Simone Inzaghi stunned Marseille with four of his own in a 5-1 win over the French giants.
Croatian hitman Prso netted four times in Monaco's 8-3 trouncing of Deportivo
The last player to have achieved that feat was Shevchenko who bundled four goals past Fenerbahce for AC Milan in the 2005 edition of the UEFA Champions League.
2010 - Lionel Messi Barcelona 4-1 Arsenal
2005 - Andrei Shevchenko Fenerbahce 0-
2004 - Ruud van Nistelrooy Manchester United 4-1 Sparta Prague
2003 - Dado Prso Monaco 8-3 Deportivo
2000 - Simone Inzaghi Lazio 5-1 Marseille
1992 - Marco Van Basten AC Milan 4-0 IFK Gothenburg
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