Jordan vs Argentina Score, FIFA World Cup 2026 LIVE Updates: Messi takes the field after Jordan score; JOR 1-2 ARG
Jordan vs Argentina Football Live Score, FIFA World Cup 2026 LIVE Updates: Argentina have made a raft of changes, including leaving Lionel Messi out on the bench, and yet they have been the far more dominant side in the first half of their final group agame against Jordan in Dallas. Giovanni Lo Celso put them ahead early with an inch-perfect free kick and Lautaro Martinez later converted a penalty to make it 2-0 in Argentina’s favour.
The match is pretty much a dead-rubber, with Argentina’s status as group winners already cemented. It was hence not much of a surprise when Lionel Messi was listed among the substitutes when the starting XIs were announced.
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It means that the defending champions could choose to rotate their squad and, notably, rest their in-form captain Lionel Messi, who has scored all five goals that Argentina have scored thus far. Argentina before this beat Austria 2-0 and Jordan 2-1.
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Argentina’s Lionel Messi, left, celebrates with Leandro Paredes after scoring his side’s second goal during the World Cup Group J soccer match between Argentina and Austria in Arlington, Texas, near Dallas, Monday, June 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
Before the match, the giant screen at Dallas Stadium showed all 16 of Lionel Messi’s previous World Cup goals one by one. The crowd cheered each one. By the time the last appeared, the stadium was already his. Two more followed. They always do.
In the ninth minute, Messi walked up to a penalty spot and missed. Not by much. He tried to curl it against the post. Schlager dived, guessed right, but the ball passed a few centimetres wide without him needing to touch it. Messi covered his face with both palms, looked up at the Texas sky, and walked back. An Austrian fan in the stand had painted MESSI WHO? on his stomach. It felt, briefly, like a reasonable question. READ MORE.