Lionel Messi scored a hat trick for Argentina in their 3-0 win against Algeria at the World Cup.
Messi had three goals for the first time at a World Cup in the team’s 3-0 win. With the score at 0-0, Lautaro Martínez would play the ball through to Lionel Messi and he would score but the referee ruled it out for offside. Moments later, Algeria would score but that would also be disallowed.
Rodrigo De Paul would receive the ball in his own half and play a pass to Messi. He would run and score from outside of the penalty area to give Argentina the 1-0 lead.
Argentina national team coach Lionel Scaloni would substitute Nahuel Molina for Gonzalo Montiel at half time.
Algeria would see more of the ball at the restart but did not have an effort on goal.
Lionel Scaloni would substitute Julián Álvarez and Nicolás González in for Lautaro Martínez and Thiago Almada.
Minutes later, Emiliano Martínez would cross it to Nicolás González and he would pass it to Alexis Mac Allister. His effort on goal was saved but Lionel Messi would get to the rebound and score his second goal of the match.
With the Argentina national team leading 2-0, Messi would receive the ball on the outside of the penalty area and he would score his third goal of the match to give Argentina the 3-0 lead.
Scaloni would substitute Lionel Messi and Nicolás Otamendi out for Nico Paz and Cristian Romero.
Argentina will play Austria on June 22 in Dallas, Texas.
