He scored Lionel Messi Three hat-trick goals to lead Argentina national team To achieve a major victory over its guest, Bolivia, 6-0, in the match that brought them together this Wednesday morning, in the tenth round of the South American qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup.
Argentina vs Bolivia
In his second international match since recovering from an injury he suffered in a cup Copa America Last July, Messi took advantage of a mistake by defender Marcelo Suarez to open the scoring in the 19th minute.
Bolivia’s goalkeeper, Guillermo Viscara, excelled in defending his goal on more than one occasion, before Lautaro Martinez scored the second goal for the Argentine national team, taking advantage of a quick cross from Messi in the 43rd minute.
Messi played a pass that Julián Alvarez took advantage of to score the third goal before the end of the first half.
Argentina, led by coach Lionel Scaloni, dominated the second half and thought they had increased their lead with a goal scored by Nicolas Otamendi, but the referee ruled it out for offside.
But substitute Thiago Almada scored the fourth goal from Nauel Molina’s pass in the 70th minute.
And in the last minutes, he reviewed Leader Messi (37 years old) demonstrated his skills to elude two Bolivia defenders before firing a powerful shot into the net.
Substitute Nico Paz played the ball to Messi, who scored the sixth goal two minutes later, raising his tally to 112 international goals with Tango.