Qatar: Lionel Messi joined Gabriel Batistuta for the most goals scored by an Argentina player in the history of the FIFA World Cup with his goal against the Netherlands in the quarterfinal. In the 73rd minute, Messi converted a penalty kick to score his tenth goal for Argentina in the World Cup game.

Batistuta scored a total of 10 goals in 12 appearances over the 1994–2002 World Cups. Messi scored his fourth goal at the World Cup in Qatar. Against Saudi Arabia, Mexico, and Australia, he scored one goal each. His overall goal total with Argentina increased by one after his 170th match, to 95.

Argentina faced the Netherlands in the second quarterfinal of the FIFA World Cup. Lionel Messi’s team once again defeated the Dutch team. The celebrity-studded event took hold at the Lusail Iconic Stadium. Similar to the 2014 FIFA World Cup semifinal, Argentina overcame Louis Van Gaal’s team in this match through penalties.

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Messi provided a magical assist for Nahuel Molina in the 35th minute of the game to help Argentina open the scoring, and then in the 73rd minute of the game, he converted a spot kick to double his team’s advantage.

Argentina’s captain, who assisted on both goals, became the first player in World Cup history to both score and provide an assist. Messi broke Pele’s previous record for most assists in FIFA World Cup knockout games with his assist for Molina. It was his fifth assist in FIFA World Cup knockout matches, and he is now one ahead of three-time World Cup winner Pele, who has four to his name.

Gabriel Batistuta, is an Argentine professional football player whose prolific scoring made him an icon of both the Italian Serie A league and the Argentine national team. In the three World Cups in which he participated (1994, 1998, and 2002), Batistuta recorded 10 goals, becoming Argentina’s all-time leading scorer in World Cup play.

With 54 goals in 78 international matches, he was the Argentine national team’s all-time leading scorer until his record was broken by Lionel Messi in 2016. In 2004, the year before an accumulation of late-career injuries ended his 17-year run, he was included in FIFA 100, a list of the world’s 125 best-living players.

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