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Another game and another victory for the World Champions! Argentina have secured a dominating victory today at Beijing as they beat Australia in a friendly. With this victory, The La Albiceleste extended their winning run to nine games. Moreover, Argentina played three games after being the Champions of the World and secured all three victories. They kept clean sheets in all three games while scoring 11 goals.
However, Lionel Messi has become something else in Argentina’s t-shirt. The GOAT won the best player of the world cup award in Qatar. He has become more clinical after the world cup. Messi has scored five goals in just three games for Argentina after the Qatar World Cup. Today, he scored the opening goal in just 87 seconds of the game, registering the fastest goal in his career.
Match Report
At Worker’s Stadium in Beijing, Argentia’s boss Lionel Scaloni set up the team formation with 4-4-2, while Australia’s boss also followed the same setup for his team.
However, the match started with Argentina taking the lead. Captain Lionel Messi found the net with his trademark curl outside from the box in just the second minute of the game.
After that, Argentina didn’t press Australia highly but controlled the midfield. Besides, Australia couldn’t create many chances in the first half. Therefore, the first half ended at 1-0.
Australia tried to find the equalizer in the second half, but Argentina defended very well. Moreover, La Albiceleste doubled their lead in the second half. German Pezzella, who came off the bench at the beginning of the second half, scored a brilliant goal in the 68th minute with a powerful header. Australia failed to find the net in the remaining minutes. Therefore, Argentina secured a comfortable victory at Beijing Stadium.
If I wasn’t a world champion, I wouldn’t be in the National Team anymore – Messi
Lionel Messi is very pleased to win like this. Nevertheless, he said he would stop playing if he failed to win the world cup. “Not to cry, but I suffer a lot. I had very hard moments. I always had the desire to achieve something with the national team. I had in my head that I was going to achieve it.”
“I enjoyed the World Cup a lot, as it had never happened to me before. I knew it could be the last. To be honest, if I wasn’t a world champion I, wouldn’t be in the National Team anymore. Today being a world champion I can’t leave the national team, and I have to enjoy all of this. It was like I was enjoying it and I had enormous peace of mind and confidence in the group,” Lionel Messi said after the match.
