FIFA World Cup 2026 :Canada/Mexico/United States: Discussion Thread

[Joca97]

And now Messi did well, he scored the first goal in the 38 minute yeah that's the right way to answer the doubts in the first minute. I agree, so far Argentina performance has not been very impressive but that doesn't mean their chances are lower yeah at least they are a little bit ahead on some lines. I personally waited until the first half was over before placing a bet but unfortunately I was too late yeah hope Messi can score one more goal in the second half so Argentina is safer with a 2 goal difference meaning they are certain to qualify for the next round. For Austria, they also still have a chance to qualify and only need one more point, yeah the 3rd match will be decisive.

I swear I didn't see that goal coming, he did it and now everyone has went silent. Earlier I saw post that Messi is the first player to lose penalty in 2026 world cup and I was lmao, and not just that he is the first player to miss penalty in 3 world cup, like Messi is breaking record climbing ladder and at the same time he is making records with things that are not moving him, indeed you can only compare him to anyone but you can never have another Messi.

The pressure on Argentina has reduced and that's good, I want to see the same energy when they come back again in the second half. If they win this match now, they are qualified for the next stage where knockout will be draw later. If they allow Austria to win this match, they will have to win next match to be able to make it to the next stage, I believe on this team not to disappoint though.

Now everyone is silent and its like he didnt miss the penalty in this match. Messi before the goal was playing really bad and then bang scores a beautiful goal and everyone forgets mistake or the missing penalty. Messi yet broke another record and i doubt that someone will catch him and break his record anytime soon,Messi can still extend the record by a few goals for sure.

On the other hand Austria is attacking putting presure and better overall,but Argentina having those big chances from counter attacks or from Messi balls.

[puloweh555]

A big missed opportunity from Lionel Messi in the early minutes of this game. Now things are looking not easy for Argentina because Austria already has a strong defense, and they can put more pressure on them even though their attack is also doing a good job.

After this. I am not sure whether they will be able to put pressure on Austria. Odds for Argentina are already from @1.40 to @1.70.

A big change in 30 minutes just Messi has problems for Austria no other player is able to give his best. This could be a not-easy game for Argentina.

And now Messi did well, he scored the first goal in the 38 minute yeah that's the right way to answer the doubts in the first minute. I agree, so far Argentina performance has not been very impressive but that doesn't mean their chances are lower yeah at least they are a little bit ahead on some lines. I personally waited until the first half was over before placing a bet but unfortunately I was too late yeah hope Messi can score one more goal in the second half so Argentina is safer with a 2 goal difference meaning they are certain to qualify for the next round. For Austria, they also still have a chance to qualify and only need one more point, yeah the 3rd match will be decisive.

Yes. Messi goal was the temporary difference giving Argentina the lead until halftime. Interestingly, Argentina played with a relaxed attitude in this tournament, perhaps due to their status as defending champions, and Messi playing without any pressure, making it even easier for Messi to score. This was evident even though he missed a penalty in the 9th minute, but his morale didn't drop he rallied and scored in the 38th minute.

Messi has made new World Cup history, as this additional goal brings his total to 17 World Cup goals. No other player has matched him before. The record, previously shared with Klose with 16 goals, now belongs entirely to Messi, and he will likely add more in the second half. Messi's record will likely be difficult for anyone else to match it may take another 50 years for someone to reach that milestone.

[Callido]

Yes. Messi goal was the temporary difference giving Argentina the lead until halftime. Interestingly, Argentina played with a relaxed attitude in this tournament, perhaps due to their status as defending champions, and Messi playing without any pressure, making it even easier for Messi to score. This was evident even though he missed a penalty in the 9th minute, but his morale didn't drop he rallied and scored in the 38th minute.

Messi has always being an exceptional pmayer so it's no surprise that he still carries the Argentina team even at age 38. During the last world cup, it was evident that Messi was the front man for their massive World Cup run till winning the trophy and he still doesn't fail to deliver yet again in this year's World Cup.

Messi has made new World Cup history, as this additional goal brings his total to 17 World Cup goals. No other player has matched him before. The record, previously shared with Klose with 16 goals, now belongs entirely to Messi, and he will likely add more in the second half. Messi's record will likely be difficult for anyone else to match it may take another 50 years for someone to reach that milestone.

Well, 50 years is quite a long catch and that would be a bit unrealistic don't you think? We still have upcoming young players, that could break that history maybe even sooner than you can imagine. History would always be broken no matter how difficult it is, but this could be achieved in a couple of years from now.

[Ale88]

JUST IN: 🇦🇷 Lionel Messi officially becomes the highest scoring player in World Cup history.

"Lionel Messi has officially broken the all-time men's World Cup scoring record by netting his 17th career tournament goal. The historic milestone occurred on Monday, June 22, 2026, during Argentina's group stage match against Austria."

Before this title has Miroslav Klose from Germany with 16 goals.

Since there are more teams now, it might be a little easier to catch up with this result.

Congratulations to Messi for this record but I think it won't last long because, in my opinion, it's just a matter of time and sooner or later Mbappé will break this record. Especially now that, as you pointed out, there are more teams, more games, therefore more opportunities to score, especially against weak teams.

[ILuckyGuyI]

Messi has made up for that horrible penalty with a really nice goal indeed! I just admire him a lot even at this age. Because he can still score the kind of goals we were used to see from him in his prime years.  

These ad breaks are really annoying! UEFA has recently announced that there won't be any "hydration break" in Euro 2028. The main objective is never to let players drink some water obviously. Just for some people to make more money...

[JoyMarsha]

And now Messi did well, he scored the first goal in the 38 minute yeah that's the right way to answer the doubts in the first minute. I agree, so far Argentina performance has not been very impressive but that doesn't mean their chances are lower yeah at least they are a little bit ahead on some lines. I personally waited until the first half was over before placing a bet but unfortunately I was too late yeah hope Messi can score one more goal in the second half so Argentina is safer with a 2 goal difference meaning they are certain to qualify for the next round. For Austria, they also still have a chance to qualify and only need one more point, yeah the 3rd match will be decisive.

I hope the person who made the post about Messi being the first to lose a penalty in the 2026 World Cup, will still make a post about Messi scoring in two consecutive matches.

The thing about haters I found funny, is for them to be in a hurry to castigate you, never to praise you when you did something beyond their imagination. The facts remain that, Messi is a Goat, and can't change that, if his haters never see or believe that.

Argentina is qualifying for the next round of the World Cup, and Messi will score more goals to help Argentina advance further. People should think about something else they should post about it

[PremiumcryptoHub]

Messi has made new World Cup history, as this additional goal brings his total to 17 World Cup goals. No other player has matched him before. The record, previously shared with Klose with 16 goals, now belongs entirely to Messi, and he will likely add more in the second half. Messi's record will likely be difficult for anyone else to match it may take another 50 years for someone to reach that milestone.

To be honest, Argentina is not able to dominate today's game because we feel like Argentina is not being strong in attack against Austria in their second match in this FIFA World Cup. Watch Messi score a goal after missing a penalty and he set a record because as far as I know, Messi broke the record of 16 goals by a German player with a goal against Austria today, and the Argentine player became the top scorer in the World Cup with 17 goals. After watching Argentina's performance against Austria, I feel like if Messi hadn't scored the goal, so maybe there was a possibility of a draw in this match against Austria.

[Mate2237]

This game has been balanced if you ask me because, since after Messi scored in the 38 minutes the game has been balanced as they both sides are finding it difficult to score and even, the ball possession has been balanced. I think that this game is likely to end this way even though Argentina has been more offensive going towards the attack but , I don't see the Austrans conceiving any further goal, with the way that they have been defending so far.


Once again Messi has continued to show leadership role as he as been the one spear heading this Argentina side scoring one and even missing a penalty earlier in the first half, it's unfortunate if not he should have scored two today and would have put him in contention for the top goal scorers of the tournament.

[ChocolateBitcoinK]

Argentina should attack more, they are not attacking enough, they are not doing as well as expected in terms of attack, they are leading by 1 goal, but it is risky, because if Austria scores 1 goal at any moment, then the match will be tied, so Argentina should score one more goal in any way, so that their victory in the match is more secure. Now there are about 25 minutes left in the match, now Austria will try hard to score, but Argentina should another score before that.

[Hypnotizer]

Now everyone is silent and it’s like he didnt miss the penalty in this match. Messi before the goal was playing really bad and then bang scores a beautiful goal and everyone forgets mistake or the missing penalty. Messi yet broke another record and i doubt that someone will catch him and break his record anytime soon,Messi can still extend the record by a few goals for sure.

Messi got a very impressive goal luckily for himself because if not for that goal, the Messi fans would probably not get to rest from the banters and critics for him missing that penalty but congratulations to him he broke yet another record and he’s now officially the World Cup Topscorer..

Taking about someone breaking his record soon, sure there’s one person that would do that when it comes to the World Cup and that person is Mbappe, I personally think Mbappe would become the World Cup Topscorer, he already has 14 just three goals away from the present record by Messi and Mbappe is going to play another match tonight against Iraq..

On the other hand Austria is attacking putting presure and better overall,but Argentina having those big chances from counter attacks or from Messi balls.

This game might probably end with this exact score..

[EarnOnVictor]

Now everyone is silent and its like he didnt miss the penalty in this match. Messi before the goal was playing really bad and then bang scores a beautiful goal and everyone forgets mistake or the missing penalty. Messi yet broke another record and i doubt that someone will catch him and break his record anytime soon,Messi can still extend the record by a few goals for sure.

What do you want them to say? Missing a penalty is normal, and by an icon like Messi, it should be easily forgiven and forgotten. I even wonder what Argentina would be without Messi, and it's even good they start "testing the water" now, to avoid missing his absence too much later. Scoring 3 goals against Algeria is something so fascinating, and this one too, he has scored one goal at the very 38th minutes; eliminating critics of the mistake made in the 9th minute penalty. Who knows? He could score more before the game is over.

[Shishir99]

I thought this match would be tough for Argentina against Austria since Austria has been playing well lately. It seems Argentina is already ahead with one goal after the end of the half-time.

Resume here - I actually forgot that I was writing a post on Bitcointalk. It's 75 minutes already, and the scorelines are still the same. None of the team managed to score yet. The chance for Austria to win against Argentina has become too slim now. It seems Argentina will secure their position in the round of 32 after this match.

Congratulations to Argentina fans.

[Arenga pinnata]

Now everyone is silent and its like he didnt miss the penalty in this match. Messi before the goal was playing really bad and then bang scores a beautiful goal and everyone forgets mistake or the missing penalty. Messi yet broke another record and i doubt that someone will catch him and break his record anytime soon,Messi can still extend the record by a few goals for sure.

On the other hand Austria is attacking putting presure and better overall,but Argentina having those big chances from counter attacks or from Messi balls.

At least he managed to restore Argentina’s lead in the end. A few mistakes are to be expected, after all at his age, we shouldn’t set our hopes too high. that said, while he sometimes plays poorly, at other times he plays as if he were still an extraordinary young player. take the first match, for example, where he scored a hat trick. He set an incredible record, and everyone was even more impressed by him.

The score for the Argentina vs. Austria match hasn’t changed since Messi’s goal in the first half. I was actually hoping for another goal in the second half, but it seems pretty difficult given the pace of the game right now.

[Ruttoshi]

What do you want them to say? Missing a penalty is normal, and by an icon like Messi, it should be easily forgiven and forgotten. I even wonder what Argentina would be without Messi, and it's even good they start "testing the water" now, to avoid missing his absence too much later. Scoring 3 goals against Algeria is something so fascinating, and this one too, he has scored one goal at the very 38th minutes; eliminating critics of the mistake made in the 9th minute penalty. Who knows? He could score more before the game is over.

Messi was quick enough to make up for his mistakes to avoid critics and that shows that he wasn't happy for missing that penalty. The game is still 1-0 and we are in the last ten minutes to the end of the game

Argentina needs another goal to seal up their victory in order to avoid a late goal from Austria because Austria is looking for every means to see how they can get an equalizer.

[Franctoshi]

🇦🇷ARGENTINA LIONEL MESSI IS NOW OFFICIALLY THE WORLD CUP'S  TOP GOAL SCORER OF ALL-TIME💥




Lionel Messi after missing a penalty spot kick, got his fourth world cup goal this tournament, ranking the Legendary star player the top of the table, he's now word cup's all-time time goal scorer ever. Messi won't stop breaking records the more.
For a play to break his records and standard of football, it will take another century or if not centuries.

[RockBell]

Messi missed a penalty and I think he doesn't need a penalty to break a record in the World Cup, good move and he scored like it was nothing. Now let's talk about how the Argentina players move the ball from the defense to the attacking department, they make it so easy and now that they are leading by a goal the desperation on Austria will continue to grow and if care is not taken they'd miss more chances in the second half while Argentina take their time to get 1 or 2 goals in the second half. This group doesn't look like any other country will push either Austria and Argentina aside to take their spot, is the both countries that will finish first and second.

A player like messi there merit are not measured by penalty and even without that messi still scored just look at the goal he scored and this guy's are not even normal and the way messi is performing this world cup is different from that of last world cup and messi is taking this one personally and am very sure that there are more goals coming and that is just messi for you and the way they are cooperating with messsi and I just love the way the whole thing is going in the world cup but the funny thing is going to be that with this kind of performance a lot of them will want to measure up to messi so there will be pressure everywhere very interesting especially for Ronaldo and many more.

[Minor Miner]

Congratulations to Messi for this record but I think it won't last long because, in my opinion, it's just a matter of time and sooner or later Mbappé will break this record. Especially now that, as you pointed out, there are more teams, more games, therefore more opportunities to score, especially against weak teams.

This is a new record. But mbappe will almost certainly break this  record. Messi has scored  17 goals in the world cup. On the other hand, mbappe has already  managed to score 14 goals in the world cup. Mbappe is only 27 years old. He will probably play three more world cups. Mbappe's  fitness is also quite good.

Argentina is still leading  1-0 after 85 minutes. Argentina's players had several great chances to score today. But  they missed the easy  chances. Even then , the team will be able to earn  full points. Argentina's defense is strong. Austria's players are not getting much opportunity to attack.

[Adiljutt156]

Germany came from behind in the second half to beat Ivory Coast 2–1.
They secured the victory with a late goal in the closing minutes of the match.
Ivory Coast played very well but couldn't hold onto their lead. They had their chances but failed to take them.
Germany have now secured top spot in the group.

I didn't expect the Netherlands to beat Sweden so comfortably, but it turned out to be a very easy match for them as they cruised to a 5–1 victory.

Germany national football team played very well in this match and that team did 2 goals in this match and opponent team could do only 1 goal in this match. Undav was a match Winner in this match because he did back to back 2 goals in this match. Kessié was a person who did first goal of the match and he did this goal at 30 minutes when it was need of the team And opponent team performance was great in this match. Undav did second goal of the match and he did this goal at 68 minutes when it was need of the team and after few minutes he did goal again in this match and he did this goal at 94 minutes . That match was organized in the Toronto Stadium, Toronto and that was one sided match because Germany  football team performance was at top in the second half of the match. The stats of Ivory Coast  football team was  very poor in this match and they lose this match due to this reason.

[xzone]

We are very lucky to be able to watch a footballer like Messi live. It's very rare to see a player who has been on the field for so long and is so talented and successful; it's a wonderful feeling to witness this legend breaking records.
He will probably score in the upcoming matches and break another record. There are no obstacles left in his way.

And he broke another record, managing to score another goal at the end of the match

[Distraction]

This is how a real legend plays man! Messi has really broken the all-time World Cup goals record in with these 2 goals.

But it's so sad to know that this is his last World Cup most probably.    He is about to turn 39 in only 2 days...

Mbappe would definitely be the new record holder in the long term. He is still so young in a comparison. But I don't expect him to ever get the same respect Messi has had.