Pranav

Barça and Spanish football enthusiast. 🇪🇸 ⚽ Also cheering for Argentina. 🇦🇷

[OptaJoe @OptaJoe]

10 - 🇦🇷 Lionel Messi in 2026 is the only player to do the following in a FIFA World Cup (since 1966):

Create 10+ chances (15)
Complete 10+ dribbles (10)
Make 10+ through balls (11)
Win 10+ fouls (13)

🔟 Diez.

[OptaJoe @OptaJoe]

5 - 🇦🇷 Lionel Messi in 2026 is just the second player in FIFA World Cup history to score his country's first five goals in a single edition, along with Oleg Salenko for Russia in 1994.

Leader.

[WhoScored @WhoScored]

The top 10 highest-rated players of the World Cup group stage so far (Min. 2 apps). 🌟🌎

@skrill | #ad

[Squawka @Squawka]

"I WILL set you up." 🤪🫵

Lionel Messi has created more chances than any other player in the World Cup since Opta records began in 1966 (76)

The full top 5:

🇦🇷 76 - Lionel Messi
🇦🇷 71 - Diego Maradona
🇩🇪 62 - Wolfgang Overath
🇩🇪 54 - Lothar Matthaus
🇫🇷 51 - Alain Giresse

Another day, another Messi record.

#FIFAWorldCup

[FC Barcelona @FCBarcelona]

Looks familiar… 🐐😏

[OptaJoe @OptaJoe]

12 - Argentina's last 12 FIFA World Cup goals have been scored by...

Messi
Messi
Alvarez
Alvarez
Messi
Di María
Messi
Messi
Messi
Messi
Messi
Messi

Lionel.

[Bookd: The Letterboxd of Football @bookdfootball]

80 G/A in 50 matches at 38.

[FOX Sports @FOXSports]

This goes hard

[Squawka @Squawka]

Lionel Messi for Argentina vs. Austria:

◉ Most duels won (9)
◉ Most touches in opp. box (8)
◉ Most shots (7)
◉ Most shots on target (4)
◉ Most fouls won (4)
◉Most successful take-ons (3)
◉ Most big chances created (2)
◉ Most goals (2)
◉ Most penalties missed (1)

And the record for the most goals scored in FIFA World Cup history. 👏

[Squawka @Squawka]

Players to score 4+ goals at three different men's World Cup tournaments:

◎ Miroslav Klose
◉ Lionel Messi 🆕

2014 🤝 2022 🤝2026

[Wayne Rooney @WayneRooney]

Messi is a joke. For me the best ever.

[Borussia Dortmund @BlackYellow]

Not again. 😭

[𝐏𝐒𝐆𝐈𝐍𝐓 @PSGINT_]

🚨 NON PENALTY CAREER GOALS :

🇦🇷 Lionel Messi: 766
🇵🇹 Cristiano Ronaldo: 763

[60 Minutes @60Minutes]

"I enjoy football in the same way I did when I was a little kid,” Lionel Messi told 60 Minutes in 2013.

More than a decade later, the Argentine superstar is still making history, breaking the world record for most goals scored in the World Cup.

[Sholy Nation Sports @Sholynationsp]

🇦🇷 Lionel Messi as a 38 years old

👕 50 games
⚽️ 50 goals
🎯 30 assists

Really special! 🐐

His 39th birthday is in two days. 🎂

[MisterChip (Alexis) @2010MisterChip]

Messi es el primer jugador que abre el marcador en DIEZ partidos diferentes de la Copa del Mundo:

🇦🇷 LEO MESSI - 10
🇮🇹 Vieri - 6
🇧🇷 Ronaldo - 6
🇪🇸 Villa - 6
🇵🇱 Lato - 5
🇮🇹 Paolo Rossi - 5
🇮🇹 Schillaci - 5
🇺🇾 Luis Suárez - 5
🇩🇪 Thomas Müller - 5

[RB Leipzig English @RBLeipzig_EN]

Our new head coach with the World Cup's new all-time leading goalscorer 🤝🇦🇷

[Sofascore Football @Sofascore]

🌟 | Player of the match

Lionel Messi v Austria:

👌 71 touches
⚽️ 2 goals
📈 1.81 xG/1.25 xGOT
🎯 7 shots/4 on target
📐 0.24 xA
🎁 2 big chances created
💨 3/4 successful dribbles
⚔️ 9/15 duels won
🦵 2/2 tackles won
⭐️ 9.2 Sofascore Rating

It really is a pleasure watching him play. 🐐

#ARGAUT #FIFAWorldCup