{"id":346461,"date":"2026-06-23T02:28:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T02:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/346461\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T02:28:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T02:28:39","slug":"messi-sets-world-cup-scoring-record-as-defending-champion-argentina-advances-to-knockout-stage-nation-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/346461\/","title":{"rendered":"Messi sets World Cup scoring record as defending champion Argentina advances to knockout stage | Nation &#038; World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 Lionel Messi set a <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/fifa-world-cup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World Cup<\/a> record with his <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/messi-world-cup-argentina-c42d5dfa81ab0c101e426035ea4cfade\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">17th and 18th goals<\/a>, and defending champion Argentina advanced to the knockout stage with a 2-0 victory over Austria on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Messi had a golden opportunity to break the record in the ninth minute, but went wide to the right on a penalty kick. Almost 30 minutes later, Messi caught Alexander Schlager leaning the wrong way after Thiago Almada let Facuno Medina&#8217;s pass go by him directly onto Messi&#8217;s left foot.<\/p>\n<p>Messi scored again in injury time to move two ahead of Germany striker Miroslav Klose.<\/p>\n<p>AP World Cup: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/fifa-world-cup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/fifa-world-cup<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 Lionel Messi set a World Cup record with his 17th and 18th goals, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,18957,490,731,154,1499,123434],"class_list":["post-346461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-fifa-world-cup","tag-general-news","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-u-s-news","tag-world-cup-argentina-austria-messi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}