From sitting on the fringes to flying out to the World Cup as a late injury replacement for Thomas Tuchel's England squad. 🏴🦁Trevoh Chalobah's story is incredible. Fully deserved. 🛡️🔵 #ThreeLions#CFC
🇦🇷 King Leo ,Messi World Cup Goals (Total: 16) 🇦🇷
🏟️ 2006 Germany
1. 🇷🇸 Serbia and Montenegro (Group Stage)
🏟️ 2014 Brazil
2. 🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina (Group)
3. 🇮🇷 Iran (Group)
4-5. 🇳🇬 Nigeria (Group, 2 goals)
🏟️ 2018 Russia
6. 🇳🇬 Nigeria (Group)
🏟️ 2022 Qatar
7. 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia (Group)
8. 🇲🇽 Mexico (Group)
9. 🇦🇺 Australia (R16)
10. 🇳🇱 Netherlands (QF)
11. 🇭🇷 Croatia (SF)
12-13. 🇫🇷 France (Final, 2 goals)
🏟️ 2026 USA/Canada/Mexico
14-16. 🇩🇿 Algeria (Group Stage opener, hat-trick) till date
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He is him
🚨😂 BREAKING: Leo Messi is officially the first player to turn two consecutive World Cup matches into basketball and rugby and somehow escape without a red card.
The referee's whistle has a Ballon d'Or clause. 🐐😭
Most of you said Mbappé.
A few backed Messi.
The football gods replied:
🇦🇷 Messi: Hat-trick 🎩⚽⚽⚽
🇫🇷 Mbappé: Brace ⚽⚽
Never underestimate the GOAT. 🐐💰
Show of hands: Who actually picked Messi? 🐐🙋♂️
The stars aligned exactly as decreed.
We write the script before the players run,
We see the end before it has begun.
The final whistle blows, the masses stare,
While we rule quiet in the timeline's air.
France 3-1 Senegal.
Kylian Mbappé brace. 🤩
Every single metric, every single scoreline, completely conquered. We told you it was a locked in prophecy, not a guess. Sit back and admire the crown. 👑🌍
@realmadrid@KMbappe 🤍👑🤍
#WorldCup2026 #LesBleus #Mbappe #RealMadrid
🚨 Jamie Carragher on the defending at the FIFA World Cup after Argentina’s 3-0 win over Algeria in their 2026 World Cup opener, where Lionel Messi scored a hat-trick to equal Miroslav Klose’s all-time World Cup record of 16 goals:
🗣️ “I have to ask a serious question.
What are some of these defenders doing?
Because if that’s the level of defending we’re going to see at the FIFA World Cup, then the top attackers in this tournament are going to have a field day.
Lionel Messi was brilliant.
Absolutely brilliant.
But some of the defending made his job far too easy.
You cannot give a player like Messi time on the ball.
You cannot stand off him.
You cannot let him drift into dangerous areas and expect nothing to happen.
That’s football suicide.
Every defender in the world knows what Messi wants to do.
The problem is stopping him.
And tonight, Algeria didn’t even make that part difficult.
The positioning was poor.
The communication was poor.
The awareness was poor.
At times it looked like they were terrified of getting close to him.
And when you defend like that against one of the greatest players in football history, you get punished.
The scary thing is Messi didn’t even look like he was playing at full speed.
He was just reading the game, finding space and picking Algeria apart.
A hat-trick in a World Cup opener is special.
But some of those defenders will not want to watch the replay tomorrow morning.
Because they’ll realize they helped create the highlights.
Messi deserves all the credit in the world.
But from a defensive point of view, that was a nightmare.
And if other teams defend like that in this tournament, Messi and Argentina are going to have a lot more fun before this World Cup is over.”
{@DailyMail }
Lionel Messi reaching a record 6th World Cup is great for marketing, but tactically it is a massive trap for Argentina.
Forcing a high-pressing modern squad to carry an aging superstar through a physical 2026 tournament will get them exposed early.
Agree or disagree? 👇
#FIFAWorldCup #FWC26