BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — After 14 titles in five seasons, Barcelona were still lacking the epic comeback to put some added drama into their unprecedented winning run.

Lionel Messi crossed that one off the list yesterday.

Messi scored a brilliant brace to help Barcelona beat Milan 4-0 and guide his side into the quarter-finals of the Champions League.

Barcelona won 4-2 on aggregate after a spectacular second leg in the last 16, entering the record books as the first team to turn around a 2-0 first-leg away loss in the competition.

The four-time champion imposed their attack from the start and Messi finished off a team move just five minutes in to give the hosts a huge boost before a screaming crowd of 99,786 at Camp Nou, Europe’s largest stadium.

Messi struck with another left-footed strike in the 40th to level the contest over two legs. And Barcelona’s relentless pressure paid off in the 55th when David Villa netted the decisive goal before Jordi Alba added a fourth in stoppage time.

“It had been a long time since we had pulled off a historic comeback,” said Barcelona midfielder Xavi Hernandez. “We pressed them very well and played an exceptional match.”

Barcelona join Galatasaray in the last eight after the Turkish side beat Schalke 3-2 on the night and 4-3 on aggregate.

Against the odds, Barcelona reached the quarter-finals for a sixth straight season and kept alive their bid for a fourth title in eight years.

Barcelona had failed to fight back after losing first-leg away semi-finals to Chelsea last season and to Inter Milan in 2010.

Messi made sure they got it right on a third try, and did so in style with his 52nd and 53rd goals of the season.

The four-time world player moved past Ruud van Nistelrooy (56) into sole possession of second place on the Champions League career scoring list with 58 goals at just 25 years old, trailing only Raul Gonzalez’s 71.