The soccer player Lionel Messi, seven times ‘Golden Ball’, scored five goals for the second time in his career, a decade later, when ‘writing’ Argentina’s 5-0 against Estonia (5-0) in Pamplona.
In a friendly match, four days after the 3-0 victory over Italy in the final, Messi scored in the eighth, 45th, 47th, 71st and 76th minutes, the first penalty, scoring for the first time more than three goals for the National selection. team ‘albi celestial’.
The 34-year-old player had only achieved a ‘little hand’ of goals on March 7, 2012, the day on which, with FC Barcelona, he became the first footballer to achieve it in the Champions League, in a 7- 1. home win against Bayer Leverkusen.
Messi, who scored 86 goals for Argentina in 162 games, being the fourth top scorer for national teams, opened the scoring after eight minutes, from a penalty, with a low shot, near the left post, after a foul. suffered by Pezzella.
At the end of the first half, in the 45th minute, the now Paris Saint-Germain player scored the second, with a left-footed ‘shot’, in the area, above the right, assisted by Papu Gómez.
Early in the second half, in the 47th minute, Messi deflected Molina’s cross from the right inside the area, in what could have been his eighth hat-trick for Argentina.
It was not like that, since, in the space of five minutes, the ’10’ achieved something unprecedented for the national team, with the fourth goal, in the 71st, after assistance from Molina, and an inopportune save by several Estonian defenders. , and the fifth, in 76, in a punctual recharge.
With Messi’s five goals, Argentina added the 33rd consecutive game without losing (22 wins and 11 draws), since 0-2 with Brazil, in the semifinals of the Copa América 2019, in a match played on July 2, 2019 .
Source: Observadora
