Luis Suárez and Lionel Messi make history at Camp Nou

It was the first time that two players had scored at least three goals each at the Stadium 

The feat had only occurred three times before, all at FC Barcelona's old grounds in Les Corts

Seconds after the final whistle in FC Barcelona's remarkable 7–0 rout over Valencia on Wednesday night, one big question remained — Who would get the game ball?

Would it be Luis Suárez or Lionel Messi?

Suárez, after all, had just completed his first four-goal game since joining FC Barcelona — giving him a team-leading 35 goals in 33 games this year across all competitions — and Messi had bagged his 29th career hat trick, his third in the Copa del Rey.

Not surprisingly, a goal glut such as this coming from two players in the same game is about as common as a total lunar eclipse.

Here are the only precedents:

23 March 1924 — FC Barcelona 8–1 Zaragoza Stadium: In the first leg of the preliminary round of the Copa del Rey in Les Corts, Paulino Alcántara and Josep Samitier scored three goals each and Sagi Barba added a double.

11 September 1949 — FC Barcelona 10–1 Gimnàstic Tarragona: Five goals from Navarro II, a Caesar hat-trick plus goals from Marcos Aurelio and Canal led the rout in Week Two of league play in the 1949/50 season at Les Corts.

23 September 1956 — FC Barcelona 7–3 Atlético Madrid: In Week Three of league play in 1956/57, Barça got four goals from Luis Suárez (no, not the same one) and three from Justo Tejada.