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#4 Lionel Messi
There is a joke among rival fans - play Lionel Messi along with 10 other amateurs and the Argentine will still drag them to victory. On Tuesday, the 31-year-old was in imperious form and once again demonstrated why he is so highly rated when it comes to the game of football.
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Messi totally ran the show in Barcelona’s 4-0 win over PSV Eindhoven and rounded things up with a sublime hat-trick – his very first of the season. The Argentine barely put a foot wrong, and his free-kick which opened the scoring will be re-watched by football lovers many, many times.
It is only fair that the only player to have scored a hat-trick after match-day one of the Champions League makes the list of the top five performers. This is a man whom many have run out of superlatives to describe, but his numbers just keep on getting better and better.
