Argentine star Lionel Messi came out of his country’s 2-1 victory over his Australian counterpart on Saturday, and qualified for the quarter-finals of the “Qatar 2022” World Cup, as the most prominent winners.
Lionel Messi scored the goal for his country in the 35th minute of the first half of the match that took place at the Ahmed Bin Ali Al-Mondial Stadium in Al-Rayyan.
And Leo succeeded in scoring his first goal in the playoffs, after he failed to score any goal in the elimination stage during 4 copies in which the Argentine star participated, before he finished that in his fifth participation.
Leo scored 8 goals, all in the group stage, to come his ninth goal in the knockout stage, and he is only one goal away from equaling Gabriel Batistuta, who is the top scorer for Argentina in the World Cup with 10 goals.
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, The second against Mexico, and the third against Australia.
