🚨𝐍𝐄𝐖: Semi Finalists at World Cup 2026
🇪🇦 𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗻
Most Goals — Oyarzabal
Most Assists — Cucurella
Most Key Passes — Porro
Most Successful Dribbles (p90) — Yamal
Most Chances Created — Baena
Most Big Chances Created — Cucurella
Most Accurate Crosses — Rodriguez
🇲🇫 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲
Most Goals — Mbappe
Most Assists — Olise
Most Key Passes — Dembele
Most Successful Dribbles (p90) — Barcola
Most Big Chances Created — Olise
Most Chances Created — Mbappe
Most Accurate Crosses — Dembele
🏴 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱
Most Goals — Kane / Bellingham
Most Assists — Gordon
Most Key Passes — Declan Rice
Most Successful Dribbles (p90) — Eze
Most Chances Created — Bellingham
Most Big Chances Created — Declan Rice
Most Accurate Crosses — Madueke
🇦🇷 𝗔𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗮
Most Goals — Messi
Most Assists — Messi
Most Key Passes — Messi
Most Successful Dribbles (p90) — Messi
Most Chances Created — Messi
Most Big Chances Created — Messi
Most Accurate Crosses — Messi
At 39 years old, still carrying the hopes of a billion on his shoulders. Greatest Of All Time.🐐
Defensive midfielder Leandro Paredes giving Argentina coach Lionel Scaloni some tactical lessons. This is why defensive midfielders (or deep lying midfielders in general) tend to turn out as good coaches. They see.
No todos los días la cámara de uno captura historia. Después de una atajada a Messi, llegó el momento de Julián Álvarez: el mejor delantero del mundo en ese instante, cara a cara con la gloria y clavándola al ángulo para el 2-1. Un recuerdo para siempre. 🇦🇷🔥
🚨Lionel Scaloni on Lionel Messi after Argentina’s comeback against Egypt:
🗣️ Reporter: “Scaloni, people always say this team is trying to win the World Cup for Messi. Do you feel that pressure?”
🗣️ Lionel Scaloni:
“I actually think people have it the wrong way around.
Today, it looked like Leo was trying to win it for all of us.
We were two goals behind. The game was slipping away. He never complained, never pointed fingers. He simply asked for the ball.
He created our first goal.
Then he scored the equaliser.
That is what leaders do.
After the final whistle, I saw something people rarely see. Leo was emotional. Not because he had scored, but because he genuinely carries the responsibility of this team on his shoulders. Sometimes I think he worries more about letting his teammates down than any of us worry about letting him down.
That’s why this dressing room respects him so much.
People admire Lionel Messi because of the goals and the trophies.
We admire him because, even after everything he has achieved, he still feels responsible for every player wearing the Argentina shirt.
⚠️🇲🇽 Javier Hernández on the difference between Leo Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo:
🗣️ “MESSI IS SUPERMAN AND CRISTIANO RONALDO IS BATMAN. Superman was born with powers, Batman wasn't. Batman had to build himself with discipline, courage, and bravery until he became extraordinary.
My mother-in-law asked me: Who's better, Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo? And I replied: ‘What do you admire most?’
Messi is the representation of pure talent. Watching him play feels natural, as if the laws of physics don't apply to him. He makes the impossible look simple. Clubs build systems around him, and that makes sense because he's a talent that never existed in history. Messi represents the dream of being born with an extraordinary gift.
But Cristiano Ronaldo represents another story: the story of the one who built himself, who turned discipline into his greatest talent, who changed countries, leagues, languages, playing systems, and still remained elite. While Messi seems to improvise, Cristiano seems to have trained every move thousands of times. While one conveys calm, the other conveys hunger. While one lets the game come to him, the other goes out to conquer it from the first minute.
And that's why millions of us identify with Cristiano Ronaldo, because many of us weren't born being the best. We had to work twice as hard to achieve our dreams. Cristiano Ronaldo represents the one who swims against the current, the one who receives criticism, the one whose achievements are normalized and minimized, and yet keeps going.
And I think that's the real discussion: not who's better, but which story inspires you more. Both are admirable, and both inspire a lot: the one who was born with a gift or the one who proved that with discipline you can change your destiny.
Because in the end, we admire Messi for what he is, a being from another planet, but many admire Cristiano Ronaldo because he's a monster of willpower that forces us to look in the mirror and feel capable of breaking through.”
Hakimi for Morocco is world class. A right back constantly in attack looking like a center forward in this WC game vs the Dutch. He’s just lazer focused and doesn’t complain.
🇳🇴🇳🇴🇳🇴 Tras clasificar a la siguiente ronda del mundial, todo el plantel de Noruega se sienta en el campo y empieza a remar junto con su afición en el estadio…simplemente maravilloso 🤩🤩🤩
🅾️🅾️ Wayne Rooney: On Lionel Messi performance against Austria:
“I’ll say this now, what we’re witnessing right now is just completely mental. I’ve played at the absolute highest level, I know what the physical toll of this game is, and Messi scoring twice today to break the all-time World Cup goal record? It’s just insane.
How are we all sitting here acting like this is normal? The man is 39 years old. At 39, most lads are sitting on a beach, or struggling to get out of bed for a Sunday league kickabout, let alone dominating the biggest tournament on Earth. It defies logic.
He’s out there gliding past players, reading the game three steps ahead of everyone else, and finishing like he’s still in his mid-twenties.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: anyone who still doubts Lionel Messi as the greatest to ever play the game simply is not mentally OK. It’s that simple.
There’s no footballing argument left to have. Even if your brain has been completely disconnected, your eyes alone just sitting there watching what he is doing on that pitch should tell you absolutely everything you need to know. You don't need a tactical breakdown. You just need to look at the screen. To do what he’s done throughout his career was incredible, but to reach the pinnacle of the World Cup record books at 39?
We will never, ever see anything like this again. We just need to stop trying to analyze it and appreciate that we're looking at the absolute best to ever lace up a pair of boots”