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#6 First player to score 35 La Liga hat-tricks
Days after winning a record sixth Ballon d'Or award, Lionel Messi scored his second La Liga hat-trick of the season in Barcelona's 5-2 home win over Mallorca on 8th December 2019.
In the process, the then 32-year-old broke a record he shared with Cristiano Ronaldo to become the first player to score 35 hat-tricks in the Spanish top-flight.
#7 First player to score 20 goals in 12 consecutive La Liga seasons
Mallorca had the misfortune of suffering more misery against Lionel Messi during the 2019-20 season. In the first game of the Liga restart after the COVID-19 pandemic, the Argentinian scored in the third minute of injury time to complete a resounding 4-0 La Liga win for Barcelona on 14th June 2020.
In the process, Messi racked up his 20th goal of the season to become the first player in La Liga history to score at least 20 goals in 12 consecutive seasons.
Messi eventually ended the campaign with 25 goals. During this period, the fewest he has scored in a Liga season was the 23 he managed in 2008-09.
#8 Becomes second player in a top 5 league to score 20 goals and provide 20 assists in a season
In a La Liga game against Real Valladolid on 12th July 2020, Lionel Messi provided the assist to Arturo Vidal who scored the only goal of the game in Barcelona's 1-0 win away from home.
In the process, the Argentina international emulated Frenchman Thierry Henry as the only players in a top five league to score 20 goals and provide as many assists in a season.
Messi's 20th assist of the season helped him draw level with former teammate Xavi Hernandez's record.
#9 First player to provide 21 assists in a La Liga season
In Barcelona's last league game of the 2019-20 season on 19th July 2020 against Alaves, Lionel Messi provided an assist to Ansu Fati who opened the scoring in the visitors' 5-0 win.
In the process, Messi broke Xavi Hernandez's record to become the first player to provide 21 assists in a La Liga season.
#10 Lionel Messi becomes the first player to win 7 Pichichi awards
In the same game where he notched up his record 21st La Liga assist of the season, Lionel Messi scored Barcelona's second and fifth goals as the deposed champions ended the season on a winning note by beating Alaves 5-0 away from home.
It meant that Messi (25) ended four goals clear of Real Madrid's Karim Benzema to become the first player in history to win seven Pichichi awards (awarded to the highest goal-scorer in a La Liga season).
The 33-year-old had previously shared the record with Telmo Zarra.
