🇦🇷Argentina

1. 1

   Kansas City · Arrowhead Stadium

   🇩🇿Algeria ·Jun 17 W 3–0

   270 m · 76k · open · 31°C 🔥

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   🇦🇷Argentina 3–0 🇩🇿Algeria

   Argentina did not dominate this; Lionel Messi did. Algeria actually edged possession, fifty-two to forty-eight, and still lost three-nil because the man in the centre scored all three. Messi struck on seventeen minutes from de Paul, again past the hour, and completed the hat-trick on seventy-six with Gonzalez supplying. Six shots on target, six clear of an Algeria side that managed none. This was efficiency wearing the number ten. Some afternoons the scoreline flatters; this one merely recorded what he chose to do with it.

   Goals 17' L. Messi · 60' L. Messi · 76' L. Messi

   xG 1.23–0.31 ·Poss 48% ·Shots 10 (6 on target) ·Corners 2 ·GK saves 0

2. 2

   Dallas · AT&T Stadium

   🇦🇹Austria ·Jun 22 W 2–0

   180 m · 80k · retractable · 35°C

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   🇦🇷Argentina 2–0 🇦🇹Austria

   For nine minutes it looked like it might be one of those nights — Lionel Messi stepped up and missed from the spot. He spent the rest of the evening making amends. Messi struck just before the half and again at the death to settle it, a brace bookending a performance Argentina controlled throughout: 2.65 expected goals to Austria's half a chance, twelve shots, the ball rarely far from where they wanted it. Two-nil flatters Austria, if anything. The miss will be a footnote; the response is the story.

   Goals 38' L. Messi · 90' L. Messi

   xG 2.65–0.5 ·Poss 54% ·Shots 12 (5 on target) ·Corners 1 ·GK saves 1

3. 3

   Dallas · AT&T Stadium

   at 🇯🇴Jordan ·Jun 28 W 3–1

   180 m · 80k · retractable · 35°C

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   🇦🇷Argentina 3–1 🇯🇴Jordan

   Argentina were rarely troubled and never in doubt. Giovani Lo Celso opened early, Lautaro Martinez doubled it from the spot before the half-hour, and with seventy-three percent of the ball the rest was control. Jordan's spirited reply through Musa Tamari briefly interrupted the procession, but Lionel Messi settled matters in the eightieth to put gloss on a 2.14 expected-goals afternoon. This was the favourites doing exactly what favourites should: take the lead, manage the game, and let their best player write the final line. Efficient, and barely out of second gear.

   Goals 19' G. Lo Celso · 31' L. Martinez (pen) · 55' M. Tamari · 80' L. Messi

   xG 2.14–0.74 ·Poss 73% ·Shots 12 (4 on target) ·Corners 6 ·GK saves 0

4. 4

   Miami · Hard Rock Stadium

   🇨🇻Cape Verde ·Jul 3

   2 m · 65k · open · 32°C 🔥

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   🇦🇷Argentina 3–2 🇨🇻Cape Verde

   Argentina were pushed to the brink and needed every second of extra time to escape. Lionel Messi put them ahead, but Cape Verde would not lie down: Deroy Duarte levelled it, and when Sidny Lopes Cabral made it two-apiece in extra time, the tournament's seventh seed were staring at disaster. An own goal on a hundred and eleven minutes finally settled it. Argentina created 2.16 expected goals to 0.45 and battered the door for two hours; they will not care how it looked. Through, and rattled.

   Goals 29' L. Messi · 59' D. Duarte · 93' L. Martínez · 103' S. Cabral · 111' own goal

   xG 2.16–0.45 ·Poss 64% ·Shots 22

5. 5

   Atlanta · Mercedes-Benz Stadium

   🇪🇬Egypt ·Jul 7

   320 m · 71k · retractable · 31°C

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   Full time · The Report Two down, and Messi dragged them through

   🇦🇷Argentina 3–2 🇪🇬Egypt

   Argentina were two goals down and staring at the exit — and then they were not. Yasser Ibrahim and Mostafa Ziko had put Egypt in dreamland, Lionel Messi had missed a penalty, and everything pointed to a shock, until the closing minutes tore up the script. Cristian Romero pulled one back, Messi levelled, and Enzo Fernández won it deep in stoppage time. From two down to victory on nerve and a captain who refused to let it end. Argentina march on.

   Goals 15' Y. Ibrahim · 67' M. Ziko · 79' C. Romero · 83' L. Messi · 90+2' E. Fernández

   xG 2.84–0.89 ·Poss 64% ·Shots 19 (7 on target) ·Corners 6 ·GK saves 0

6. 6

   Kansas City · Arrowhead Stadium

   🇨🇭Switzerland ·Jul 12

   270 m · 76k · open · 31°C 🔥

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7. 7

   Atlanta · Mercedes-Benz Stadium

   at 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿England ·Jul 15

   320 m · 71k · retractable · 31°C

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8. 8

   New York / NJ · MetLife Stadium

   at 🇪🇸Spain ·Jul 19

   5 m · 83k · open · 29°C

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• 6,846km travelled
• 318m altitude swing
• 35°hottest · Dallas

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