In the 35th minute of the round of 16 against Australia, the time had come: Messi deliberately hit the left corner in his 169th international match.
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A redemption.
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“The spell is broken. Messi is Messi,” said “ARD” expert and 2014 world champion Bastian Schweinsteiger. “He is the key factor in Argentina.”
With his ninth goal in the 23rd World Cup game, the veteran passed compatriot Diego Maradona, who scored eight times.
Only Batistuta ahead of Messi
Only Gabriel Batistuta is more successful than Messi in the Albiceleste with ten World Cup goals.
A record that Messi could still crack in the finals in Qatar.
It was not for nothing that the Argentine Football Association AFA tweeted: “Today he played his 1,000th game of his career – keep it up, captain!”
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