Read 4 minutesJune 23, 2026 09:42 AM IST Lamine Yamal’s goal against Saudi Arabia looked easy. That was exactly the point. The move started with Spain breaking down the left before Mikel Oyarzabal fired a low pass into the six-yard box. Yamal reaches the far post and taps away. No complicated construction, just a hard ball goal and a runner running at the right moment. Yet that goal may have captured a definite attacking trend in this World Cup. Also read | Mbappé is closing in on Messi’s record of 18 goals in the World Cup leaderboard charge For all

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Read 4 minutesUpdated: June 23, 2026 07:59 AM IST The day he missed the penalty, Lionel Messi made history by scoring two goals Austria vs Argentina in FIFA World Cup group match. The brace means Messi has scored all five of Argentina’s goals in their 2026 World Cup campaign. Thanks to the two goals, Messi reached a record 18 goals at the FIFA World Cup, surpassing Miroslav Klose on 16. The win means Messi has won 18 World Cup matches as a player, overtaking Klose’s 17. With his first goal against Austria, Messi has now opened the scoring in seven

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Read 3 minutesUpdated: June 23, 2026 12:38 AM IST The first round of group-stage matches at the FIFA World Cup 2026 was action-packed. Stars like Lionel Messi, Kylian Mbappe, Erling Haaland and Harry Kane have led the way for their respective teams. The second round continued that energy and the excitement never stopped in the quadruple competition. Messi lit up the show with three goals in Argentina’s opening match against Algeria, making him the oldest player in the tournament’s history to score a hat-trick. These three goals gave him a joint lead in the race for the Golden Boot. With

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Read 3 minutesUpdated: June 22, 2026 11:07 PM IST Argentina captain Lionel Messi missed out on a golden opportunity to top the list of all-time leading goal-scorers at the FIFA World Cup. When he aimed a penalty wide in the World Cup match against Argentina against Austria. Just one goal away from breaking Miroslav Klose’s World Cup goalscoring record, Messi conceded in the 9th minute when he fouled teammate Lautaro Martinez in the opposition box. It was Messi’s third mistake at the World Cup, having previously conceded against Iceland in 2018, Poland in 2022 and now Austria in 2026. Last

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FIFA World Cup 2026 Match Today Live Score: Bad weather in Philadelphia has delayed the second half of the France vs Iraq match. According to a statement from FIFA, “A 30-minute break has been announced. FIFA will follow the safety protocols established by local authorities and the match will resume as soon as it is safe to do so.” Kylian Mbappe’s goal gave France a 1-0 lead at the break. Mbappe, who scored twice in France’s opener against Senegal, got back on the scoresheet in the 14th minute of France’s opener against Iraq at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia on

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Before the match, all 16 of Lionel Messi’s previous World Cup goals were shown one by one on a giant screen at Dallas Stadium. The crowd cheered each other. By the time the last one appeared, the stadium was already his. Then two more. They always do. In the ninth minute, Messi went to the penalty spot and missed. Not much. He tried to fight against the post. Schlager dives, guesses right, but the ball goes a few centimeters wide and doesn’t need to be touched. Messi covered his face with both palms, looked up at the Texas sky, and

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In the space of half an hour, Lionel Messi showed that he is immortal despite being mortal. 40 years ago on the same day as Diego Maradona, a goal scored with a hand and another by his imagination. Messi missed a spot kick, before scoring a belter and adding another late in the game in Argentina’s 2-0 win. In the ninth minute of the game, against Austria, an improvement over Algeria, the team was kicked out by Messi, who missed a penalty. Humming with anticipation, the cameras turned not to Messi, but to his prized left foot. He counted his

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Read for 2 minutes22 Jun 2026 11:17 PM IST Lionel Messi broke another record against Austria on Monday when he eclipsed German icon Miroslav Klose to become the all-time top goalscorer in FIFA World Cup history with a 38th-minute strike. In the last match against Algeria, Messi scored a hat-trick to equal Klose with 16 goals. On Monday, he overtook the German and now has 17 World Cup strikes. Last week, exactly 20 years since his World Cup debut, where he became Argentina’s youngest-ever World Cup scorer, Messi dazzled in his 200th international appearance, sparking a fiery start for the

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Read for 5 minutes22 Jun 2026 07:45 PM IST When Miroslav Klos came to Kusel in 1986, he knew two words of German. He was eight years old. Miroslav was born in Opole, where his father left Poland to play professional football in France in Burgundy. Now the family was settling in a small town in Rhineland-Palatinate, and the boy who would one day score more World Cup goals than anyone in the history of the game could not yet ask for directions to school. He learned the language the way he learned most things in those years, slowly, on

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Argentina vs Austria FIFA World Cup 2026 Live Score: ARG vs AUT in Texas. FIFA World Cup 2026 Match Today Live Score: Lionel Messi is back in action with Argentina at the World Cup, 5 days after the little wizard scored a hat-trick in a 3-0 win over Algeria. They now face David Alaba’s Austria at the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, and a win will almost guarantee them a place in the round of 32. All eyes will naturally be on Messi, who broke the record with his first World Cup hat-trick against Algeria. Against Austria, if he gets

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