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Lionel Messi has made history. For the first time in the 18-year history of the Champions League has made it a player to score four goals in a quarterfinal.

The Argentine superstar Lionel Messi in the Champions League has written history as the first players reached the 22-year-old World Player of FC Barcelona in a quarterfinal of the “king class” four goals. Messi was on Tuesday evening in the return match against Arsenal at 4-1 (first leg 2-2), scoring four times the Catalans.

Overall, since the inception of the Champions League were (since 1992), according to IMPIRE six players, four times in an encounter of the “king class” successful. This was Marco van Basten at AC Milan 4-0 win against IFK Gothenburg on 25 November 1992, Simone Inzaghi from Lazio 5-1 in Rome against Olympique Marseille on 14 March 2000 (2nd group stage), Dado Prso in the AS Monaco 8:3 against Deportivo La Coruna on 5 November 2003, Ruud van Nistelrooy from Manchester United in a 4-1 against Sparta Prague on 3 November 2004 and Andrei Shevchenko of AC Milan 4-0 at Fenerbahce in Istanbul on 23 November 2005.