Sevilla 2-4 Barca: Savior Messi nets 50th hat-trick to seal unreal comeback win

Barcelona left Seville with all three points thanks to another hat-trick from captain Lionel Messi on Saturday.

Match Events

22'GOAL! Sevilla 1-0 Barcelona (Navas)

OOOOAAALLL!!! SEVILLA 1-0 BARCELONA! Navas opens the scoring for the home side, rounding off a swift three-against-two counter with a clinical finish. Messi gives the ball away 20 yards from the Sevilla goal and Ben Yedder, having carried the ball half the length of the pitch, plays in Navas for a sweeping finish past Ter Stegen.

26'GOAL! Sevilla 1-1 Barcelona (Messi)

GOOOOAAAALLL!!! SEVILLA 1-1 BARCELONA! Four minutes after falling behind, the league leaders draw themselves back on level terms. Rakitic's cross from the left is aimed in the direction of Messi, and the forward punishes Sevilla for being given time and space in the box by volleying the ball past Vacklik. What a finish that is!

42 'GOAL! Sevilla 2-1 Barcelona (Mercado)

GOOOOAAALLL!!! SEVILLA 2-1 BARCELONA! Sevilla retake the lead through another impressive finish, this time from Mercado. Ter Stegen's clearance is headed back up the field and Barca are unable to set themselves. Sarabia gets in behind and pulls the ball back to the edge of the six-yard box, where Mercado is waiting to steer it across Ter Stegen into the far corner.

67'GOAL! Sevilla 2-2 Barcelona (Messi)

Messi doubles his personal tally to level the score for the second time today. Vacklik's clearance is poor and seven touches later the ball is in the back of his net. Rakitic carries the mishit clearance towards the edge of the box and plays it to his right, where Dembele is waiting to pull it back for Messi to do the rest.

85'GOAL! Sevilla 2-3 Barcelona (Messi)

Messi rescues Barcelona with what is surely a late winner. Roberto runs onto a return pass down the right. It is worked to Alena on the edge of the box and the substitute's shot deflects off Kjaer and lands for Messi to clip over Vaclik in trademark fashion to complete his hat-trick.

92'GOAL! Sevilla 2-4 Barcelona (Suarez)

Suarez puts the game out of Sevilla's reach and ends his goal drought in the process. Alena passes to Messi and the scorer of Barcelona's other three goals lifts it into the path of Suarez, who does likewise by looping it over Vaclik.

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LaLiga's leaders twice went behind only for their captain to drag them ahead as he took his personal tally to 36 goals against Sevilla in all competitions, before Luis Suarez netted a late fourth.

Jesus Navas and Gabriel Mercado had put Pablo Machin's side in the ascendancy, but a fourth game without a win has dealt serious damage to their Champions League ambitions.

Line-ups

Sevilla XI: J.Navas, S. Kjær, G. Mercado, É. Banega, T. Vaclík, Sarabia, S.Gómez, Ben Yedder, Q. Promes, Rog, Maximilian Wöber

Subs: F.Vázquez, Amadou, Mesa, André Silva, Munir, Juan Soriano, Guilherme Arana

Barcelona XI: L. Messi, L. Suárez, Piqué, I. Rakitić, Vidal, Jordi Alba, Sergio Busquets, Philippe Coutinho, M. ter Stegen, S. Umtiti, Semedo

Subs: Jeison Murillo, S.Roberto, Lenglet, Carles Aleñá, O. Dembélé, Malcom, Iñaki Peña