Barcelona have the luxury of welcoming rivals Real Madrid to Camp Nou on Sunday evening with the La Liga title already secured.

The Catalan giants are now attempting to see out the campaign unbeaten to become the first Spanish top-flight side to achieve that feat in the post-Civil War era.

There is also the small matter of the Pichichi Trophy, handed to the division's top scorer, which Lionel Messi is the clear favourite to win with four games left to play.

Ahead of this weekend's showdown in Catalonia, Sports Mole looks at Messi's record in previous El Clasico meetings.

The Argentina international, who is eight goals in front of Cristiano Ronaldo in the scoring charts, has faced off against Madrid on 37 previous occasions.

Twenty-three of those have come in La Liga, scoring in 10 of those games, including a famous hat-trick in a 4-3 win for his side towards the end of the 2013-14 campaign.

Messi has netted three times in the last two league encounters, bringing up his landmark 500th goal for Barca in last term's 3-2 success that took the title race all the way.

Each of those strikes came at the Bernabeu, however, and not since 2012-13 has the five-time Ballon d'Or winner struck in this league fixture on home soil - something he will be keen to change this weekend.