Head coach of the Argentina national team Lionel Scaloni commented on his team's victory over Algeria (3:0) in the first round of the group stage of the 2026 World Cup.

The mentor paid special respect to Lionel Messi, who became the main hero of the team, scoring a hat-trick.

" What can I say? Vіn neutral. You can pay for already 20 rubles. “Everyone in football wants to learn more about the game and take away the satisfaction from it,” Scaloni said..

The coach also said that the Argentines will lose their style of play and are not inspired to fight for the ball in any situation.

“We never give up if there is a ball on the right, that’s our style. It’s important to remember this,” the mentor said, encouragingly.

Okremo Skaloni signified the significance of the victory in the opening match of the tournament, foretelling the recent beginning of the next world championship.

" At the last world championship we experienced failures, so today it was even more important for us to give a good shout out to the tournament,” said the head coach of the Argentines.

Without respectfully depriving Skalonia of the national team from Algeria, which, in my opinion, caused a lot of problems for the world’s venerable champions.

" They defeated the great robot, and it was a very difficult match,” Fakhivets summed up.

Guess what, Messi continues to rise in the historical ranking of world championship scorers. Three goals against Algeria became his 14th, 15th and 16th at the World Cup, which allowed him to equal Miroslav Klose at the top of the list of the tournament's highest snipers.