Messi’s Argentina continues with its dream of winning the World Cup by beating Croatia 3-0 and thus advancing to the Qatar 2022 World Cup final.
Lionel Messi managed to become Argentina’s top scorer in World Cups by scoring his 11th goal with the albiceleste and equaling Maradona’s assist mark with 8, also tied Lothar Matthaus’s record as the players with the most appearances in the World Cups with 25
The first Argentinian goal was through a penalty that Messi took, beating Livakovic for 1-0 at minute 34′, this gave enormous confidence to the albiceleste that only five minutes later a great play by Julián Álvarez who crossed midfield to finish off and get Argentina’s second goal.
In the second the Croatians made several changes looking for greater offensive volume, managing to create danger, but they could not score, on the contrary, it was Argentina that scored the third at minute 69′ in an excellent play by Messi who entered the small area and reached the line final to put the pass backwards so that Julián Álvarez deposited the ball in the nets unleashing the party of the Argentine fans.
Now Argentina awaits the winner of the other semifinal between France and Morocco to find out who will be their rival in the final of the Qatar 2022 World Cup.