11/12/2022
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Leo Messi has beaten his record for goals in a year with Argentina and is in dispute with Mbappé to be the best player in the World Cup
The ’10’ has been the top scorer for a long time for the South American team with 95 goals
Leo Messi is the figure and reference of this World Cup in Qatar 2022. His numbers are stratospheric and he is on his way to competing with Kylian Mbappé for the title of best player in the World Cup, although his great dream is to lift the title on July 18 at the Lusail stadium.
Messi has marked with 35 years his record of goals with the albicleste: In this 2022 he has scored 15 goals, surpassing the 12 he achieved in 2012 when I was 25 years old. Something incredible with a career as long and intense as that of the Argentine star.
In this World Cup he has scored 4 goals and fights with Mbappé for being the top scorer in the World Cup. The Frenchman has 5 goals and there are two games ahead. Regarding the influence on the definition, The PSG footballer has contributed 7 goals (with 5 goals and 2 assists), while Leo has 6 (4 goals and 2 assists).
In the chapter on goal passes, Messi and Mbappé are one away from equaling the leaders of the competition, with Griezmann, Jordi Alba, Harry Kane and Bruno Fernandes, who have 3 each.
match record
The ’10’ has been the top scorer for a long time for the South American team with 95 goalss and can become the player with the most games played in a final phase. The German Lothar Matthäus played 25 games and Messi has already played 24. They have two ahead, the semifinal and the third and fourth place or final, which in case of playing would take them to 26 games.
He is also the Argentine footballer with the most World Cups played, with 5, surpassing the 4 of Maradona, Mascherano and Di María, with four.
In this World Cup Cup, Leo scored goals for the first time in the final phase (in the round of 16 against Australia and in the quarterfinal against the Netherlands) and he is also the player who received the most fouls in the tournament, with 19, three more than Neymar.
Total, Messi has played 169 games with the albiceleste, with 95 scored, which means a spectacular average of 0.5 goals per match.