TOPSHOT - Argentina's forward #10 Lionel Messi runs with the ball during the Qatar 2022 World Cup round of 16 football match between Argentina and Australia at the Ahmad Bin Ali Stadium in Al-Rayyan, west of Doha on December 3, 2022. (Photo by Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP)
ARGENTINA reached the quarter-finals with a 2-1 win over Australia but they were taken right down to the wire and might not want to consider what may have happened without Lionel Messi on the pitch.
Messi marked his 1,000th professional game with his 789th goal – his first in a knockout match at the World Cup – and almost everything good that Argentina created going forward went through the little number 10.
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