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Messi scores in seventh straight World Cup match as Argentina beat Jordan 3-1 to finish perfect group
Lionel Messi broke the record for consecutive World Cup matches with a goal, scoring a late free kick as Argentina defeated Jordan 3-1 to complete the group stage with nine points.
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In brief
Messi scored in a seventh successive World Cup match, moving ahead of Just Fontaine and Jairzinho and extending his all-time tournament record to 19 goals.
Argentina won all three group matches, joining France and Mexico as the only sides to take nine points from the expanded 48-team first round.
Giovani Lo Celso and Lautaro Martinez each netted their first World Cup goals, giving Argentina a two-goal cushion before half-time.
Mousa Altamari's 55th-minute strike was the first goal conceded by Argentina in the tournament, breaking goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez's shutout run.
- 27 Jun55th minute: Mousa Altamari pulls one back for Jordan
- 27 Jun60th minute: Lionel Messi enters the match as a substitute
- 27 Jun80th minute: Messi scores a free kick to become the first player to net in seven consecutive World Cup matches
Group stage finale
Argentina concluded their Group J campaign with a 3-1 victory over Jordan at Dallas Stadium, becoming one of only three teams (alongside France and Mexico) to finish the group phase with a maximum nine points. Coach Lionel Scaloni made nine changes to the side that had beaten Austria, resting most regular starters.
Messi breaks scoring streak record
Lionel Messi came off the bench in the 60th minute to a huge ovation and, with ten minutes remaining, curled a low free kick from 25 metres past Jordan's goalkeeper Yazeed Abulaila. The goal was his sixth of the tournament and his 19th overall at World Cups, a record. More notably, it made him the first player to find the net in seven consecutive World Cup matches, breaking the shared mark of six held by Just Fontaine of France and Jairzinho of Brazil. The streak began against Australia at the 2022 finals and includes strikes against the Netherlands, Croatia, two in the 2022 final against France, a hat-trick versus Algeria and a brace against Austria earlier in this tournament.
Early goals and Jordan's reply
Argentina took the lead through Giovani Lo Celso's curling left-footed free kick in the 19th minute after a foul on the Real Betis midfielder. Lautaro Martinez doubled the advantage from the penalty spot in the 31st minute, awarded after a VAR review for a high boot by Nizar Alrashdan on Leandro Paredes. Jordan pulled one back ten minutes after the interval when substitute Mousa Altamari, the Rennes forward, slid home a low cross from captain Ehsan Haddad. The goal was the first conceded by Argentina at these finals, ending Emiliano Martinez's two-match clean sheet.
Next: Cape Verde in Miami
Argentina now travel to Miami to face Cape Verde, the smallest nation ever to reach the knockout stage, in the round of 32 on Friday. Messi, who plays his club football for Inter Miami, will be on familiar ground as the defending champions begin the knockout phase.
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Sources and context
- Lionel Messi
- Argentina captain and forward; plays for Inter Miami
- Lionel Scaloni
- Argentina head coach
- Giovani Lo Celso
- Argentina midfielder; plays for Real Betis
- Lautaro Martinez
- Argentina forward; plays for Inter Milan
- Mousa Altamari
- Jordan forward; plays for Rennes
- Emiliano Martinez
- Argentina goalkeeper; plays for Aston Villa
- Just Fontaine
- Former France forward; previously held record for consecutive World Cup matches with a goal (six)
- Jairzinho
- Former Brazil forward; previously held record for consecutive World Cup matches with a goal (six)
- Places
- Dallas
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