Doha. In the ongoing FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar, Argentina has made it to the quarter-finals by defeating Australia. In the match played on Saturday night, Argentina won the pre-quarter-final match on the basis of a second goal by Lionel Messi and Alvarez. With this, Messi has become the most Argentine player to score 9 goals in the FIFA World Cup. He has also left behind Diego Maradona in this matter. Apart from this, Messi also played this 1000th match of his career. At the same time, Gurung Kuol of Argentina also created history. He played a World Cup match at 17 years 79 days. Whereas, the great player Pele played the match in 17 years 249 days.
Talking about the match between Australia and Argentina, it was Messi who scored the first goal for his country in the 35th minute of the first half. This gave Argentina a 1-0 lead. In the second half, Julian Alvarez scored the second goal in the 57th minute. At the same time, in the 77th minute, Argentina’s Enzo Fernandes scored a self-goal. Due to this, 1 goal went up in Australia’s account. Still, Argentina won the match by 2-1 goals. Argentina’s quarter-final match will be against Netherlands on December 9 at 12.30 pm Indian time.
Argentina secure their spot in the Quarter-finals!@adidasfootball , #FIFAWorldCup
— FIFA World Cup (@FIFAWorldCup) December 3, 2022
Lionel Messi’s Argentina team is now just 3 wins away from winning the World Cup. He will now have to win the quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals. If we talk about Messi’s career, then he has scored 789 goals in 1000 matches so far. 338 goals have been scored because of him. Also this time in the World Cup, he also scored the first goal in the knockout stage. Argentina is considered one of the stronger teams in South America. However, the Netherlands team is also not weak. In such a situation, there is a possibility of a close fight between the two on 9th December.