Lionel Messi scores twice in big win as Barcelona bounce back from Valencia loss in style to thrashed Leganes to help send Quique Setien’s men into Copa del Rey last eight.
Antoine Griezmann and Clement Lenglet both scored in the first half.
Messi then scored Barca’s third and fifth to take his club tally to 623 while Arthur got the fourth.
The victory was Messi’s 500th in a Barcelona shirt, and his team joins La Liga leaders Real Madrid, holders Valencia, Athletic Bilbao, Villarreal, Granada, Real Sociedad and Sevilla or Mirandes in the last eight.
Elsewhere Mirandes, who sit 10th in the Segunda Division, upset La Liga’s Sevilla and are the only team in the quarter-finals from outside Spain’s top tier.
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