Lionel Messi became the first player ever to score 30+ goals in seven La Liga seasons with his hat-trick away at Deportivo La Coruna on Sunday.The Argentina superstar registered his 30th goal of the campaign before half-time and then scored two goals before full-time to complete his hat-trick and secure a 4-2 victory for Barcelona, who sealed the title in the process.Messi has now scored 32 goals in 33 league matches and boasts 43 in all competitions; remarkable numbers from a truly extraordinary player.As well as finishing the season with another La Liga winners’ medal, Messi also helped Barça win the Copa del Rey last month.The five-time Ballon d’Or winner scored one goal in Barcelona’s emphatic 5-0 victory over Sevilla at the Wanda Metropolitano.A domestic double is an achievement to be celebrated for any football club, although Barça fans are still bitterly disappointed with last month’s shock exit to AS Roma in the Champions League.Still, if you’d offered them La Liga and the Copa del Rey at the start of the season, they would have snapped your hand off.

Barcelona were in crisis back in August

It’s easy to forget that Barça were a club in crisis at the beginning of the campaign.

They’d sold Neymar to Paris Saint-Germain and replaced him with Ousmane Dembele, who sustained a serious injury shortly after his arrival.

Fans were outraged with the board following the signing of Brazilian midfielder Paulinho and the two-legged Spanish Super Cup against Real Madrid highlighted the huge gulf in class that seemed to exist between the two clubs at that point.

Football fans weren’t asking themselves which club would win La Liga; they were asking each other by how many points Zinedine Zidane’s side would win the title.

Fans are remembering what Messi said in August

Following Barça’s demoralising 3-1 defeat to Madrid at the Camp Nou in the first leg of the Spanish Super Cup on August 13, Messi - who scored from the penalty spot - posted a foul-mouthed but determined Instagram post.

“F***ed up day,” Messi wrote on Instagram, alongside a photo of himself in training, “but you gotta get up and go. This just started.”

Fast-forward nine months and Messi was part of the open-top bus parade celebrating Barcelona’s league title triumph on Monday evening.

It just goes to show, there’s nothing more dangerous for Real Madrid than a fired-up Messi.