Lionel Messi struck another Hat-Trick in the League to give Barca a 4 - 2 victory at zaragoza. This is Lionel Messi's second consecutive hat-trick in the league following his last week effort against Valencia. FC Barcelona raced onto a 3-0 lead by the 78th minute , but Zaragoza pulled two back through Colunga. Ibrahmovic's penalty sealed the game for Barca at 4-2. Messi was expected to miss this match (Barca vs Zaragoza Preview ) but was declared fit and definitely made most by scoring three and creating another. Meanwhile his goal scoring partner Ibrahmovic had another wasteful night. Ibra wasted lots of chances and seriously looked well short of confidence. In the build up of this game, Guardiola has revealed his intension to rotate his squad. Iniesta and Puyol both started from the bench. The defense had Alves, Milito, Pique and Maxwell infront of Valdes. Toure, Busquets and Keita formed the midfield. Messi, Ibrahmovic and Pedro formed the front trio.Barca Dominates the Early Exchanges
FC Barcelona started the game very strongly. In the 5th minute a mistake from Zaragoza defender, Diogo gave the ball to Ibra in their box, Ibra passed the ball to Pedro who sent the ball onto Messi'd head; who made no difference in gaving Barca the lead. Usually whenever Barca scores an 
early goal lots used to follow. But with a midfield of Keita, Busquets and Toure we were struggling to create clear cut chances. In the 16th minute Yaya Toure had a shot from outside the box going wide. In the 24th minute Maxwell gets behind Zaragoza defense and send in a cross to centre but Yaya shot went high. The next attempt was from alves whose shot from outside the box also went high. In the 30th minute Ibrahmovic put his free header wide from a Messi corner. As the half progressed Zaragoza started to increase pressure on Barca. In the 35th minute Javier Arizmendi's header from centre of the box was blocked and in the next minute Eliseu saw his shot from centre of box going wide. The half ended with Barca struggling to create any more clear chances.
Lionel Messi Magic Seals Match For Barca in Second Half
Barca started to dominate the second half from the whistle. Yaya Toure had a couple od decent chances but hit wide in both occasion. Guardiola brought in Iniesta for Yaya in the 63rd minute. In the 66th minute Messi put Barca 2-0 with another wonder goal. Messi stole the ball from Herrera, then beats two defenders and then turns Contini inside out and then fired a low shot into the far right corner of the goal. Guardiola brought in Puyol for Pique in the 69th minute. In the 73rd minute Marquez replaced Milito. In the 77th mnute Ibrahmovic had a great chance to put Barca 3-0 up, Pedro played him in but Ibrahmovic missed it once again. In the next minute Messi showed how it's to be done. Iniesta place the ball to Messi, Messi cut inside and then curled the ball to the bottom right corner to take Barca 3-0 up. In the 84th minute Ibrahmovic was set up by Messi but he again shot over. In the next minute Zaragoza got one goal back with Colunga latching onto a ball over the top of Marquez and slotting it past 
Valdes. Marquez was beaten by Colunga's pace but Valdes positioning also looked terrible (he stood rooted to the near corner). In the next minute Ibrahmovic had another chance but hesitated to take the shot and made a mess of the chance. In the 89th minute Zaragoza reduced the scoreline to 3-2, with Colunga's second of the night. zaragoza won a free kick on the half line, took it quickly releasing Colunga who finished it cooly past an on rushing Valdes. Barac responded the very next minute with guess who, Messi winning a penalty. He received the ball on the right, lifted the ball over one player and then in the box made fun of two more with quick turns before being brought down. Messi gave the chance to Ibrahmovic who slotted the penalty without any error.
Once again Barca had to look upto Messi to see us through. It is not a bad thing but still would love to see other players getting involved heavily. Pedro did struggle to come into the game but it was non-sense not to start with Henry, especially after his recent good forms. Ibrahmovic had another poor night with his finishing, getting offsided most of the time; there is no confidence left in him at this moment. Hope the penalty help him in recovering. Yaya had another good night eventhough he missed a couple of good chance to score. Guardiola would be worried with the way we allowed Zaragoza to comeback in the game with two quick goals. We cannot do things like that against Arsenal and other top teams.