The referee pointed to the spot after the 24-year-old Argentinian was brought down by the defender Marian Cisovsky and he struck the ball into the net to the goalkeeper's right to become only the second Barça player to reach the mark.
Messi, top scorer in the Champions League for the past three seasons, then added a second and third in stoppage time in each half to complete a 14th career hat-trick. Cesc Fábregas scored Barcelona's third.
Messi hit three in the 5-0 La Liga win at home to Real Mallorca on Saturday and the goals here on Tuesday night helped to put the holders Barça through to the Champions League last 16 with two games to spare.
"I am happy but more than anything for the result," Messi said, adding that he was not thinking about catching the Catalan club's record marksman, César Rodríguez, who scored 235.
"It's not my goal, far from it. The important thing was to win tonight and get through to the last 16. My aim is simply to keep going in the same way, to keep helping the team with my goals and together we will achieve some great things."
Messi took second spot on the list of Barcelona's record goalscorers from Hungarian Ladislau Kubala last month and is fast closing in on Rodríguez, who has held the record since the 1950s.
The Barça goalkeeper Víctor Valdés also wrote his name into the record books on Tuesday when he set a new club best for minutes unbeaten.
The 29-year-old has not conceded a goal in 877 minutes, beating a mark of 824 set in the 1972-73 season by Miguel Reina, father of the Liverpool keeper and Valdés's Spain team‑mate Pepe Reina.
It is also the first time Barça have gone nine games without conceding. The last team to score against them were Valencia in La Liga on 21 September.
Sursa : http://www.guardian.co.uk
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