Messi scores record 20th World Cup goal
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Leo Messi has done it again, scoring his seventh goal of the tournament with a left-footed strike in the first half of Argentina's round of 32 match with Cape Verde.
In addition to that, Messi becomes the first-ever player in World Cup history to have 20 goals to his name, further expanding his lead over Kylian Mbappe. But it’ll go to waste if Cape Verde continues pushing the three-time World Cup champions to the brink and cause arguably the biggest upset of the tournament.
Lionel Messi broke a 56-year-old record of Pele after scoring Argentina's first goal in their nervy 3-1 victory at Miami in the Round of 32.
The 40-year-old keeper all but certainly saved a Lionel Messi goal off a free kick in the 72nd minute because he realized the Argentina great was about to shoot when his teammates did not. Vozinha made a leaping save to preserve the 1-1 draw, pushing the ball out of harm's way.
The friends who drove from Ghana to the World Cup Messi will score more goals - Mbappe. Video, 00:01:07Messi will score more goals - Mbappe I'd have done the same to get him sent off - 20 years since Rooney's red card.
Argentina were already through, everyone knew that. Messi was starting on the bench, everyone knew that too. With those premises, staying up deep into the night to watch a match against Jordan did
