Lionel Messi went through the 400 goal barrier and Neymar scored his first ever league hat-trick for Barcelona as Luis Enrique's team beat Granada 6-0 to stay top of La Liga.
The Argentine is now on 401 career goals for club and country in 524 matches, aged only 27.
Aside from Neymar's treble and Messi's magic there was plenty more to please coach Luis Enrique ahead of Barcelona's trip to Paris to play PSG on Tuesday
The old guard Dani Alves and Xavi Hernandez looked in fine fettle setting up two of the goals and new man Ivan Rakitic scored and was outstanding.
'This was a great way to come back from the midweek draw,' said the Croatina midfielder.
With Rakitic, Sergi Busquets and Xavi in midfield Barcelona didn't really need any help with playing the killer pass but Hector Yuste stepped in all the same to roll the ball straight to Neymar early in the first half and when his shot hit Babin it bobbled past Roberto in the Granada goal to open the scoring.
Three minutes before half time it was 2-0 when Messi, Alves and Munir combined down the right hand side with Messi tricking his way to the byline before pulling the cross back to Rakitic whose unstoppable header doubled the advantage.
Granada had been desperate to get to half time just 1-0 down but there was little time for them to regret conceding the second before Neymar made it three.
Munir’s run was blocked by the advancing Roberto and the Brazilian, in front of a watching Luis Suarez, showed some more clinical finishing to put the result beyond doubt.
It had been a far more effective performance from Barca after their midweek failure to muster a single shot against Malaga. Munir could have got on the scoresheet himself but somehow missed an open goal after Mathieu pulled the ball from the byline.
Granada had posed Barcelona’s defence problems. Front pairing of Isaac Success and Youssef El Arabi were both displaying the pace and power to test Barca’s high line and El Arabi hit the bar early on but the miss proved costly as the home side took control.
That control continued in the second half with Munir trickling one effort just wide of Roberto’s far post after another brilliant assist form Messi and following good work form Rakitic.
The Croatian had been outstanding and was taken off on the hour with Luis Enrique clearly with one eye on the midweek match with PSG.
It was the old master Xavi who inspired the third. Given a rare start he had forced two saves from Roberto but turned supplier with a perfect pass to Alves whose first time cross was headed home by Messi.
Granada had thrown caution to the wind by replacing two holding midfielders with more attacking players and they were leaving more space than ever in and around their penalty area.
It wasn’t long before Neymar scored the fifth after Xavi again played in Messi who crossed for the Brazilian to finish.
And Messi added goal number 401 of his career robbing the ball from Murillo and shooting past Roberto.
