Argentine star Lionel Messi continued his brilliance by scoring two goals and making another to lead Barcelona to a precious 5-2 victory at home to Getafe, in an exciting match Thursday evening in the 31st leg of the League.
Barcelona, who won the King's Cup this season on Saturday, rose to 68 points, one point ahead of Seville, who fell to fourth place, while he is 5 points behind leaders Atlético Madrid, knowing that the Catalan team still has a match. Postponed.
On the other hand, Getafe, who did not win the seventh game in a row, stopped at 31 points in 15th place.
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Messi opened the scoring for Barcelona early in the eighth minute, before Getafe equalized with the opposite goal scored by Frenchman Clémont Lingle, the Barcelona defender, by mistake in his team's goal in the 12th minute.
Barcelona returned to advance again, after Getafe's Sofiane Chakla scored a strange counter-goal in favor of the owners of the land in the 28th minute.
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Messi hit the net again, after scoring the third goal in the 33rd minute, to consolidate his top scorer list with 25 goals, 4 goals behind his closest stalker Karim Benzema, Real Madrid's top scorer.
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Getafe narrowed the difference, after Ennis Onal scored a goal for the guests in the 69th minute, but Barcelona rose up again, with Ronaldo Araujo scoring the fourth goal in the 87th minute of Messi's creation.
Frenchman Antoine Griezmann ended Barcelona's quintet in the third minute of calculated time, instead of lost for the second half with a penalty kick.