In front of Australia, Lionel Messi made his 1000th appearance with Argentina, Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain, so far he has 788 goals and 338 assists (1126 goals + passes), with 778 goals with Barcelona, 53 goals with Paris and 169 goals with Argentina.
Messi has become the most player to participate in international matches in the history of South American teams, after he surpassed the number of Ecuadorian “Ivan Hurtado” who has 168 international matches, as the Argentina-Australia match is the 169th match in Messi’s international career.
After his goal in Australia, Lionel Messi finally managed to score in the knockout stages, marking the first goal of his career in a World Cup in those knockout stages.
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Only two players from Argentina have so far succeeded in scoring 3 goals in different versions of the World Cup, Gabriel Batistuta in the 1994 World Cup and the 1998 World Cup, and Lionel Messi in the 2014 World Cup and the 2022 World Cup.
After his goal in Australia - the number of Lionel Messi`s goals in the World Cup (9 goals) became to break his partnership with Diego Armando Maradona (8 goals), and he had only one goal to equal Gabriel Batistuta, Argentina`s top scorer in the World Cup (10 goals).
With his goal against Australia - Lionel Messi scores the 789th goal in his 1,000th career match.
After his goal in Australia - Lionel Messi opened the scoring in 6 different matches for Argentina in the World Cup, a record in the history of the tournament achieved only by the phenomenon Ronaldo with Brazil and Christian Vieri with Italy.
Only 3 players have scored in consecutive World Cup matches for Argentina in the 21st century: Hernan Crespo, Lionel Messi and Julian Alvarez.
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Julian Alvarez is the sixth player to score in each of his first two World Cup matches with Argentina, and the first to do so since Hernan Crespo in the 2006 World Cup. .