Home
Football
Lionel Messi: CENTURY of goals for LEO! WATCH La Pulga goes past 100-goal landmark for Argentina with hat-trick against Curacao, Check OUT

Lionel Messi: CENTURY of goals for LEO! WATCH La Pulga goes past 100-goal landmark for Argentina with hat-trick against Curacao, Check OUT

Lionel Messi: Another day, another milestone achieved by Lionel Messi. Just a couple of days back Messi went past the 800-goal mark in his career. Only Ronaldo had achieved that feat before Leo. Now, in Argentina’s 7-0 rout of Curacao, Messi breaks yet another milestone. He has surpassed 100 career goals for Argentina with his first-half […]

Lionel Messi: Another day, another milestone achieved by Lionel Messi. Just a couple of days back Messi went past the 800-goal mark in his career. Only Ronaldo had achieved that feat before Leo. Now, in Argentina’s 7-0 rout of Curacao, Messi breaks yet another milestone. He has surpassed 100 career goals for Argentina with his first-half hat-trick for the Albiceleste. Follow Lionel Messi LIVE Updates on InsideSport.IN

Also Read: Argentina vs Curacao HIGHLIGHTS: Lionel Messi smashes HAT-TRICK to put World Champions in 7th heaven against Curacao; Di Maria, Enzo, Montiel & Gonzalez also score – WATCH ARG vs CUW Highlights

Insidesport
Lionel Messi: CENTURY of goals for LEO! WATCH La Pulga goes past 100-goal landmark for Argentina with hat-trick against Curacao, Check OUT

In the 20th minute of the international friendly against the Caribbean side, Messi, 35, opened the scoring with a right-foot shot from the edge of the box to achieve his 100th goal. His 101st goal was a crossed shot to the right of the goalkeeper and his 102nd goal was an easy run to find the back of the net.

Lionel Messi: CENTURY of goals for LEO! WATCH La Pulga goes past 100-goal landmark for Argentina with hat-trick against Curacao, Check OUT

Argentina was leading Curacao 5-0 at halftime, with Gonzalez and Enzo Fernandez also putting their names on the scoreboard. With goals of their own in the 78th and 87th minutes of the second half, Angel Di Maria and Gonzalo Montiel increased Argentina’s enormous advantage to seven goals.

Messi is just third on the list of male players who have scored the most goals for their country in international matches. Cristiano Ronaldo tops the list with 122 goals, and Iran’s Ali Daei is second with 109. Only behind Brazil’s Marta, who has 109 goals for the nation, Messi is the second South American male player to reach the 100-goal plateau.

Almost half of Messi’s goals (46) have been scored in international matches. In World Cup qualification games, the PSG forward has scored 28 goals, including a hat trick against Ecuador in October 2017 that helped Argentina qualify for the 2018 World Cup with a 3-1 victory.

Also Read: Pep Guardiola: After Julia Roberts went to watch Man Utd, the Manchester City boss brands himself a FAILURE in hilarious presser, says ‘it doesn’t matter if City win three Champions League in row’, WATCH Video here

Messi has 13 goals in Copa America and is Argentina’s top scorer in World Cup competitions with 13 goals in 26 games over five editions, beginning in 2006. Messi was particularly on fire in Qatar in the 2022 edition for La Albiceleste. In 690 minutes for Argentina, Messi had 7 goals and 3 assists to his name. He also won the Golden Ball Award for his displays and just about nicked the Golden Ball Award, for most goals, from Mbappe, but finished just one shy of his PSG team-mate.

This was Argentina’s second exhibition match since taking home the World Cup trophy in December in Santiago del Estero. They defeated Panama in the first game 2-0.

Follow InsideSport on GOOGLE NEWS / Follow Lionel Messi LIVE Updates on InsideSport.IN

Follow
Share

Editor's Pick

IPL Auction: Virat Kohli's RCB should target

Top Stories

Share article
Follow us on social media
Google News Whatsapp channel
Tell us why didn’t you like our article so that we can improve on?
Choose ranking:
ICC Test Ranking
ICC ODI Ranking
ICC T20I Ranking