Lionel Messi as soon as once more confirmed why he is the world’s greatest by scoring all of the 5 targets in Argentina’s 5-0 victory towards Estonia on Sunday.
In a dominant vogue, the Lionel Scaloni’s males had 79% of the ball possession, 24 pictures, and 10 on track with the win taking their unbeaten run to 33 matches. With Messi turning 35 in the summertime, he’ll as soon as once more be a key participant for Argentina within the World Cup and his stats within the recreation towards Estonia proved so.
Listed below are some mind-blowing stats after his newest masterclass.
- Messi is the primary participant within the historical past of the Argentinian nationwide group to attain 5 targets in a single recreation.
- This was the eighth time he’s scored a hat-trick for the nationwide group and his 56th profession hat-trick, which locations him 4 behind long-time rival Cristiano Ronaldo.
- This was the second time in Messi’s profession that he’s scored 5 targets in a single recreation. The final time was in a 7-1 Champions League victory towards Bayer Leverkusen again in March 2012.
- Together with his newest five-goal haul, Messi has now surpassed Hungary legend, Ferenc Puskas, for worldwide targets. Solely Malaysia’s Mokhtar Dahari, Iran’s Ali Daei, and Portugal’s Ronaldo have scored extra nationwide group targets than Messi.
- The 34-year-old has scored 10 targets in his final 10 appearances for Argentina, a run that additionally included a hat-trick towards Bolivia and a man-of-the-match show within the Finalissima towards Italy.
- Messi has prolonged his lead because the all-time high goalscorer for South American nations. He’s now 9 forward of Pele’s whole of 77 targets for Brazil – the earlier document. He’s additionally now moved forward of Pele for whole profession targets – 769 to the Brazilian icon’s 767.
- The Argentinian’s 86 worldwide targets have are available in 162 appearances. That’s a fee of 0.53 targets per recreation – in different phrases, roughly one aim each two video games.
- No participant within the historical past of soccer has extra targets and assists than Messi. He’s now reached the milestone of 1100 direct aim contributions – 769 targets and 331 assists in 974 appearances for membership and nation.
