Ranking the 5 greatest attacking trios featuring Lionel Messi

#3 Lionel Messi - Ronaldinho - Samuel Eto'o

One of Barcelona's most-feared attacking trios.

Messi, Ronaldinho and Samuel Eto'o, the three players are match-winners in their own capacity. However, when they played together at Barcelona between 2004 and 2008, they sent a chill down their opponents' spines.

Ronaldinho took the Argentine under his wings and helped the young prodigy win the Golden Boy award in 2005 while he won the Ballon d'Or himself that year. Eto'o finished the 2005-06 campaign as the league's top scorer with 26 goals, while Ronaldinho also bagged 17 goals. The young Argentine was yet to find his shooting boots with the club.

After their success in the 2006 Supercopa de Espana, the trio failed to win a trophy together as Ronaldinho left for AC Milan in 2008.

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#2 Lionel Messi - Samuel Eto'o - Thierry Henry

Henry and Eto'o played just one season together at Barcelona.

In the summer of 2008, Ronaldinho left Barcelona. However, the club had secured the services of Thierry Henry and it was his time to step up and replace the Brazilian in the club's new fearsome trio.

The Frenchman took no time in forming a formidable partnership with the other two players up front and enjoyed his best season at the club, scoring 19 goals. Across all competitions, the three superstars scored 100 goals, as they were the driving force behind the club's first-ever continental treble.

Eto'o left the club at the end of the season to join Inter Milan. He would win another treble with the Italian giants the following season. Henry would also follow a season later as the Argentina star was shifted to a central role.

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#1 Lionel Messi - Neymar- Luis Suarez

Messi, Neymar, and Suarez made scoring goals look easy at Barcelona.

MSN is such an innocuous acronym but between 2014 and 2017, it was the most dreaded phrase in world football. Neymar and Luis Saurez alongside the 2014 World Cup Golden Ball winner formed one of the greatest trios ever seen in world football. They could have scored 100+ goals in all four of their seasons together, had Suarez not been banned for roughly half of the 2014-15 season.

Over the next three seasons, the trio scored - 122, 131, and 111 goals across all competitions to go down in the history books. They also helped the club to their second European treble in the 2014-15 campaign.

In three years, the trio combined for an astonishing tally of 354 goals and registered 203 assists.