🎥 Messi unstoppable: off the bench, free-kick goal! 3-1 v Jordan, stats 🤯
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Argentina were already in first place, everyone knew that. Messi was starting on the bench, everyone knew that too. With those premises, staying up until the middle of the night to watch a match against Jordan did not seem like the best idea: and yet those who did were treated to another, yet another piece of history written by Leo Messi in the 3-1 win that closed out the World Cup group stage.
Because Argentina did start slowly, but broke the deadlock with set pieces in the first half: in the 19th minute, a perfect free kick from Lo Celso, and then Lautaro’s penalty in the 31st minute, which gave him his 1st World Cup goal.Â
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🤩 Messi comes on: not just the free kick
Tamari’s goal, a sudden sliding finish in the 51st minute, put the match back in doubt, but Leo Messi firmly put it back in Argentina’s hands. Leo came on in the 60th minute to the crowd’s screams (which had already started during the warm-up) and immediately put on a show: first he tried a free kick in the 65th minute (not a great one, actually), got on the ball all over the pitch and lit up his end-of-match heat map, delivered perfect passes to everyone, and finally won a foul right on the edge of the box.
He took the free kick himself and the ball flew into the net: 3-1 final score and his 19th World Cup goal, the 6th in this edition and his 7th in a row. More and more of a record man in every imaginable statistic.
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