By He’s done it. Lionel Messi is now the all-time leading goalscorer at the World Cup after opening the scoring against Austria.
And it was a brilliant finish from Argentina’s number 10. Facundo Medina cuts the ball back, and Messi hits it first time, hard and low, into the bottom corner.
Messi earlier missed his first chance at the record when he pushed a 7th-minute penalty kick wide. He now has 17 goals at World Cups, overtaking Germany’s Miroslav Klose on 16.
Argentina 1 – Austria 0, 38th minute
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