Lionel Messi Hattrick: Rich Goal! Lionel Messi’s hat-trick and fake records, Argentina ‘trampled’ Algeria

• FIFA World Cup 2026

• Messi’s maximum in Algeria against Argentina

• Lionel Messi’s hat trick

Defending champions Argentina FIFA World Cup 2026 The campaign is off to a great start. Argentina beat Algeria 3-0 in their first match. The biggest hero of this lopsided victory was the team’s star footballer and captain, Lionel Messi. Messi showed magical skills on the field to score a brilliant hat-trick and completely destroyed the opposition team’s defence. Argentina have made their intentions clear in this tournament thanks to Messi’s performance.

A hat-trick in the 200th match

Lionel Messi’s This match was very special and historic for the career. It was his 200th international for Argentina, which he made memorable with his first World Cup hat-trick. With this, Messi joins the select group of players in the world who have participated in six different FIFA World Cup tournaments. Despite being over 38 years of age, his dribbling and accuracy was evident on the field, leaving fans in awe.

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Most goals in the World Cup

During the match, Messi also broke a record held by French star footballer Kylian Mbappe. Prior to the match, Mbappe had scored 14 goals in the FIFA World Cup, but he scored three goals in this match to take his total to 16. Within hours, Messi surpassed Mbappe and equaled German legend Miroslav Klose’s all-time record for most goals in World Cup history (16 goals). He is now the joint-highest goalscorer in World Cup history.

First goal in the 17th minute

Argentina put pressure on Algeria from the start of the match. Messi’s magic came in the 17th minute, when he controlled a wonderful pass from Rodrigo de Paul and beat the Algerian goalkeeper to open the scoring. Then, in the 60th minute, Messi easily scored his second goal of the match on the rebound after Mack Allister’s shot from Nico Gonzalez’s cross was blocked by the goalkeeper.

Third goal in the 76th minute

Messi didn’t stop there. In the 76th minute, he dribbled the ball through the middle of the field and passed to Gonzalez. Gonzalez passed the ball back to Messi, who was standing on the edge of the box, and the great made no mistake, slotting the ball into the bottom corner of the net with a stunning shot. With this third goal, Messi completed his hat-trick and sealed an impressive 3-0 victory for Argentina.

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