Argentine star Lionel Messi emerged from his country’s 2-1 victory over his Australian counterpart on Saturday to reach the quarter-finals of the Qatar 2022 World Cup as the most outstanding winner.
Lionel Messi scored a goal for his country in the 35th minute of the first half of the match, which took place at the Ahmed bin Ali Mundial stadium in Al Rayyan.
And Leo managed to score his first goal in the playoffs, after failing to score a single goal in the elimination phase for 4 spears that the Argentine star participated in, before he finished it in his fifth participation.
Leo scored 8 goals, all in the group stage, was his ninth goal in the playoffs and was just one goal away from equaling Gabriel Batistuta, who is Argentina’s top scorer in the World Cup with 10 goals.
Lionel Messi scored a goal at the 2006 World Cup in Germany, and did not score at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, while he scored 4 goals at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil and one at the 2018 World Cup in Russia, in addition to 3 goals at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, the first against Saudi Arabia with a penalty kick, the second against Mexico and the third against Australia.
Source: “Wakalat”