n0z ⭐⭐⭐

¡Vamos Vélez! ¡Vamos Argentina!

[Marc Geschwind @MarcGeschwind]

Really good analysis from Henry. This is the Ronaldo issue right now.

He's playing as a 9, but he's never been a 9 and he's not acting as a 9. Not giving Portugal those traits and it hurt them today.

[Squawka @Squawka]

Lionel Messi's game by numbers vs Algeria:

57 touches
37 passes attempted
30 passes completed
7 final 1/3 entries
6 shots
4 shots on target
4 touches in opp. box
3 duels won
3 crosses attempted
3 ball recoveries
3 goals
2 chances created
2 tackles made

1 legend. 🙌

[Selección Argentina in English @AFASeleccionEN]

𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐂𝐮𝐩 𝐀𝐥𝐥-𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐓𝐨𝐩 𝐒𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐫 🐐🏆

[Sofascore Football @Sofascore]

🐐 | Some updates are in order

Most goals in #FIFAWorldCup history:

🥇 16 – Miroslav Klose, Lionel Messi 🆕
🥈 15 – Ronaldo
🥉 14 – Gerd Müller, Kylian Mbappé

Most World Cup goals among active players:

🥇 16 – Lionel Messi 🆕
🥈 14 – Kylian Mbappé
🥉 10 – Thomas Müller

Continuing to write football history at 38 years of age. 👑

[Opta Analyst @OptaAnalyst]

16 World Cup goals for Lionel Messi.

He's now level with Miroslav Klose as the top scoring player in FIFA World Cup history.

[The Athletic | Football @TheAthleticFC]

Lionel Messi's first World Cup hat-trick comes a week before his 39th birthday.

He is now the top scorer in men's World Cup history with 16 goals, level with Germany's Miroslav Klose.

The oldest player to ever score a hat-trick at a World Cup.

Simply extraordinary.

[Squawka @Squawka]

To summarise. Lionel Messi is...

◉ The oldest player to score a hat-trick at the World Cup (38y 357d)

◉ Joint-top goalscorer at the World Cup (16)

◉ On his record breaking SIXTH World Cup tournament appearance

There are no words. 👏

[Emilio Sansolini @EmilioSansolini]

La carrera de Messi ☠️

[OptaJack⚽️ @OptaJack]

5 - Rodrigo De Paul's assist for Lionel Messi was the fifth time two MLS players combined for a goal at the FIFA World Cup and the first for a team other than the #USMNT.

Herons.

[The Athletic | Football @TheAthleticFC]

Lionel Messi is probably the last player you could ever describe as an unknown quantity.

Still, in the weeks leading up to his sixth World Cup, a few doubts hung in the air. How fit would he be? Would he be a guaranteed starter for Argentina? Would he still, with his 39th birthday just around the corner, have the energy and drive to dominate matches at this level?

It only took him 45 minutes to make all of those questions look deeply idiotic.

Ditch the doubts. We're still living in Messi's world.

📝 @JackLang

Argentina 3-0 Algeria Briefing: https://t.co/LjIDuVMBd5

[Opta Analyst @OptaAnalyst]

Another record broken for Lionel Messi (and stolen from Cristiano Ronaldo, too).

[Sofascore Football @Sofascore]

🔟 | Perfection

Lionel Messi v Algeria:

👌 57 touches
⚽️ 3 goals
📦 1.02 xG/1.56 xGOT
🎯 6 shots/4 on target
📮 0.31 xA
🔑 2 key passes
👟 30/37 accurate passes
🦵 2/2 tackles won
🪣 23 ball carries/8 progressive
📈 10 Sofascore Rating

The first perfect Sofascore Rating at a #FIFAWorldCup since 1 July 2014 (Kevin De Bruyne & Tim Howard) 🤯

#ARGALG

[Michael Caley @MC_of_A]

Argentina have real problems with their squad (no wingers to receive the passes their great passes play) but they're absurdly deep with central attackers and at 60' they can just sub on equally good players with fresh legs in every match

[Sofascore Football @Sofascore]

🐐 | What else is there to say?

For once, no stats from us. We're just going to leave this here.

[Mike Tyson @MikeTyson]

⚽️

[Cuti Romero @CutiRomero2]

@Argentina

[Selección Argentina in English @AFASeleccionEN]

When you need him, 𝐡𝐞’𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 😉

[Maximiliano Grillo 💚💜 @maxigrillo]

🚨 Julián Álvarez se entrenó con normalidad.

[n0z ⭐⭐⭐ @nozbleed]

@gonzalezbruno Máximo Perrone

[Domagoj Kostanjšak @DKostanjsak]

Argentina are a great case study for football analysis.

A group of players raised in Argentine football who share the same language not necessarily through club familiarity but through cultural transmission from childhood & centred around the divine presence of the best player in history.

La Nuestra, Lionel Messi, South American fire and grit, history and a coach in Scaloni who understands it perfectly.

That's why they are literally a force of nature.