Argentina on the way to the World Cup final with the goals of Messi-Alvarez

Messi Celebrates after scoring penalty goal । File Image

Goals from Lionel Messi and Julián Alvarez gave Argentina a 2-0 lead in the first half of the World Cup semi-final against Croatia. Argentina took the lead with a penalty goal in the 34th minute.

With this goal, Messi has reached the French star Kylian Mbappe, who is the top scorer in the World Cup. Both have 5 goals now. After Messi's superb goal, young Turk Alvarez made it 2-0 in the 39th minute with a goal reminiscent of Diego Maradona.

Eusebio of Portugal and Rob Rensenbrink of the Netherlands are now above Messi in penalty goals in a World Cup match. In 1966 and 1978 World Cup, these two scored 4 goals each from penalty. Messi scored 3 goals from the penalty in this season.

From the start of the day at the Lucille Stadium, the two teams had a bird's eye view of the attack. At the start, however, Croatia had more of the ball at their feet than Argentina. They had 62 percent of the ball in the first half. Their play-making with great passes was also worth watching. However, in this match of the previous matches, the attacks of the Croats were failing in the attacking third.

Therefore, despite being ahead in passing and ball possession, Croatia failed to find what is meant by a sure goal opportunity. Instead, Croatian goalkeeper Dominik Livakovic fouled Alvarez in the counter attack. Messi did not make a mistake to score from the penalty.

Julián Álvarez gave Argentina a two-goal lead with a spectacular goal before Messi's goal. This Manchester City star came up with the ball from their own half with almost a single skill. With these two goals, after 2014, Argentina is getting the scent of the World Cup final again.

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