Lionel Messi joins the list of Argentine footballers who scored three goals in one World Cup match.

The forward scored a hat-trick in the 2026 Emergency match against Algeria, helping the Argentina national team to achieve a great victory. This is why Messi became only the fourth representative of his country to achieve such a result at the world championships.

Previously, the Argentines scored hat-tricks at world championships by Guillermo Stabile in 1930, Gabriel Batistuta in tournaments in 1994 and 1998, and Gonzalo Iguain in.

After a productive game against Algeria, the 38-year-old striker scored 16 goals at the World Cup. Behind this performance, we share first place in the history of the tournament with the German Miroslav Klose.