{"id":24992,"date":"2026-06-18T06:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T02:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/?p=24992"},"modified":"2026-06-18T06:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T02:47:09","slug":"messi-hat-trick-equals-goals-coring-record-as-argentina-beat-algeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/2026\/06\/18\/messi-hat-trick-equals-goals-coring-record-as-argentina-beat-algeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Messi Hat-Trick Equals Goals Coring Record As Argentina Beat Algeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"read\">Lionel Messi earned a spot in the World Cup history books with a hat-trick that saw Argentina begin the defence of \u200btheir title with an emphatic 3-0 victory over Algeria on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read\">Messi became the tournament\u2019s joint all-time leading scorer as he advanced \u200cto \u2060a total of 16 goals, equalling \u200cthe record held by \u2060Miroslav Klose of Germany.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read\">The \u200bopening game \u2060in Group J saw another masterclass \u2060from the Argentina captain, who turns \u206039 later this month and was marking his 200th cap \u2060for his \u200bcountry as \u2060he became the first player to compete at six World Cups.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read\">He got his goalscoring spree underway with a 17th-minute strike \u200bfrom the \u200cedge of the penalty area, followed \u200bby a tap-in on the hour mark, \u200band the hat-trick was completed \u2060in the 76th minute with a precise shot into \u200bthe corner of the \u2060net.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel Messi earned a spot in the World Cup history books with a hat-trick that saw Argentina begin the defence of \u200btheir title with an emphatic 3-0 victory over Algeria on Tuesday. Messi became the tournament\u2019s joint all-time leading scorer as he advanced \u200cto \u2060a total of 16 goals, equalling \u200cthe record held by \u2060Miroslav [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24995,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24996,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24992\/revisions\/24996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}