Even in failure, Messi breaks records.<\/p>\n
He will get the headlines for his prowess in front of goal, but there were also some unwanted records.<\/p>\n
Argentina were awarded a penalty when Lautaro Martinez was brought down, but Messi fired the spot-kick wide.<\/p>\n
“There was a moment where I was very angry about the penalty, because I missed it and I took it very, very badly,” said Messi. “Luckily we were able to reverse that situation, take the lead and get the three points.”<\/p>\n
He became the first player to miss a penalty at the 2026 World Cup and has now both taken (seven) and missed (three) the most penalties in tournament history, excluding shootouts.<\/p>\n
He has also failed to score six of 31 penalties for Argentina.<\/p>\n
By making amends with his double, this was the first competitive match that Messi has scored in for Argentina after also missing a penalty.<\/p>\n
“Messi is human after all, he’s allowed the odd mistake,” added Murphy.<\/p>\n
Perhaps it was written in the stars for his record-breaking goal to be scored in true Messi fashion.<\/p>\n
“He might have missed it on purpose,” Murphy joked. “Maybe breaking the record was meant for a better goal.”<\/p>\n
South American football expert Tim Vickery added: “The gods of football obviously didn’t want him to break the record with a penalty, they wanted him to break the record with a goal from open play.<\/p>\n
“Argentina have built the team around him and I just don’t want the carnival to end.”<\/p>\n
While holding so many records, there are more for him to get.<\/p>\n
Next on the list could be the most assists at World Cups as Messi is currently level with Maradona on eight.<\/p>\n
Jordan in the final group match (Sunday, 03:00 BST) is Messi’s next chance to make yet more footballing history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Even in failure, Messi breaks records. He will get the headlines for his prowess in front of goal,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":653071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-653070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}