The Argentine star, Lionel Messi, came out with several distinguished numbers from his country’s match against his Australian counterpart (2-1), which brought them together on Saturday evening in the final price of the Qatar 2022 World Cup, which is the 1000th match in the player’s career.
Lionel Messi scored the lead goal for his country in the 35th minute of the first half of the match that took place at the Ahmed Bin Ali Mundial Stadium in Al Rayyan.
Messi scored his third goal in the Qatar World Cup 2022, and the first goal ever in the playoffs, to raise his tally to 9 goals in the World Cup finals, surpassing by a goal difference the Portuguese star Cristiano Ronaldo, who had never scored in the playoffs, but he also has the opportunity. , when he will face Switzerland next Tuesday, in the final price of the tournament.
However, Cristiano Ronaldo, 37, managed to score the net during the five editions of his participation in the World Cup, unlike his Argentine opponent, who scored in 4 copies.
The Portuguese star scored a goal in the 2006 World Cup in Germany, a goal during the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, one goal also in the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, and 3 goals in the 2018 World Cup in Russia, in addition to one goal so far in the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, and that was against Ghana with a kick. A penalty in the first rounds of the group stage.
While the Argentine star is participating for the fifth time in the World Cup finals, and has scored in 4 copies of them.
Lionel Messi scored a goal in the 2006 World Cup in Germany, and did not score in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, while he scored 4 goals in the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, and one in the 2018 World Cup in Russia, in addition to 3 goals in the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, the first against the Saudi national team from a penalty kick. , and the second against Mexico, and the third against Australia.
Messi succeeded in equalizing Cristiano Ronaldo's number of goals scored in major tournaments, with 22 goals for each, according to the "Squaka" statistics network.
The Argentine star scored 13 goals in the "Copa America" competitions, and 9 goals in the World Cup competitions.
As for Ronaldo, he scored 14 goals in the European Nations Cup competitions, and 8 goals in the World Cup.
Messi also broke the number of his compatriots, the late legend Diego Armando Maradona, the 1986 World Cup champion, and Guillermo Stabile, who scored 8 goals each during the FIFA World Cup finals.
The "flea" narrowed the difference to one goal between him and his compatriot Gabriel Batistuta, the historic scorer for Argentina in the FIFA World Cup finals, with 10 goals.