Jordan vs Argentina Score, FIFA World Cup 2026 highlights: Messi scores as ARG beat JOR 3-1
Jordan vs Argentina Football highlights, FIFA World Cup 2026: Lionel Messi played only the last half an hour or so of the match and yet, took his tally for the tournament to six goals in three matches as Argentina beat Jordan 3-1 to finish the group stage top of the table. Messi came on as a second half substitute and scored from a free kick.
Argentina had made a raft of changes and yet they were the far more dominant side 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.
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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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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.