In the 10th round of the South American zone of the World Preliminary Championship, Argentina played Bolivia at home. While breaking the 98-day goal drought of the national team, Messi completed a hat trick, gave two assists, and scored 5 goals in one game!
In the 18th minute of the game, Lautaro pressed forward and Messi broke into the box and scored, opening the scoring for Argentina and breaking the 98-day national team goal drought. Subsequently, Messi successively provided assists for Lautaro and Alvarez.
In the 85th minute, Messi scored the ball in the penalty area and shook the defender and then scored with a right-footed diagonal shot. Just one minute later, Messi and his teammates kicked the wall and then scored with three left-footed shots in a row to complete the hat-trick.
With three goals and two assists, Messi was involved in five goals in one game, the first time he scored five goals in a single game for the national team since June 5, 2022, when he scored five goals against Estonia.
It was Messi's 58th career hat-trick, second only to Cristiano Ronaldo's 66 hat-tricks. This is also Messi's 10th hat-winning in the national team, continuing to set a new record for the number of hat-hats worn by Argentina players.
At the same time, Messi has also set a series of records. First of all, Messi scored the 112th goal of his national team career, continuing to break his own record for the national team goal of a South American player. Secondly, Messi scored the 34th goal of the World Preliminary Tournament and continued to set a new all-time goal record in the South American zone of the World Preliminary Tournament.
Third, Messi scored the Bolivia goal for the 11th time, and Bolivia became the national team with the most goals scored by Messi. Fourth, Messi scored the 846th goal of his career, continuing to set a new record for South American players in terms of goals.