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Lionel Messi added different milestone to his storied vocation Monday, scoring doubly successful Argentina’s 2-0 triumph implicit Austria to go the starring scorer successful men’s World Cup history.
The 38-year-old skipper entered the Group J lucifer tied with Germany’s Miroslav Klose connected 16 vocation World Cup goals aft signaling a chapeau instrumentality against Algeria successful Argentina’s opener. Despite missing an aboriginal penalty, Messi broke the record with a first-half decorativeness disconnected a determination involving Facundo Medina and Thiago Almada, past added a stoppage-time extremity to widen his tally and seal Argentina’s 2nd consecutive win.
Playing successful his grounds sixth World Cup and approaching his 39th birthday, Messi stretched his streak to six consecutive World Cup matches with a extremity and accrued his tourney full to five. The reigning champions secured a spot successful the knockout signifier with a crippled to spare, continuing their rubric defence nether manager Lionel Scaloni.
The historic performance came 20 years aft Messi’s World Cup debut and days aft his archetypal vocation World Cup chapeau instrumentality successful a 3-0 triumph implicit Algeria. Fans wrong the Dallas-area stadium celebrated arsenic the Argentine prima surpassed Klose’s long-standing mark, further strengthening a bequest that already includes the 2022 World Cup title.
Argentina’s triumph near it atop Group J and successful presumption to decorativeness archetypal successful the group. While Austria remained successful contention for advancement, the nighttime belonged to Messi, whose latest accomplishment added different section to 1 of football’s astir decorated careers.
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