🎥 Messi unstoppable: 3-1 and a free-kick goal, CR7 comparison goes viral 🤯 | OneFootball

Argentina were already through, everyone knew that. Messi was starting on the bench, everyone knew that too. With those premises, staying up deep into the night to watch a match against Jordan did not seem like the best idea: and yet those who did were treated to another, yet another piece of history written by Leo Messi in the 3-1 win that closed out the World Cup group stage.

Because Argentina may have started slowly, but they broke the deadlock from set pieces in the first half: in the 19th minute a perfect free kick from Lo Celso, and then Lautaro’s penalty in the 31st minute for his 1st World Cup goal. 

🤩 Messi comes on: not just the free kick

Tamari’s sudden sliding goal in the 51st minute threw a match back into doubt, one that Leo Messi firmly put back in Argentina’s hands. Leo came on in the 60th minute to the crowd’s screams (which had already started during the warm-up) and immediately put on a show: first he tried a free kick in the 65th minute (not a great one, actually), popped up all over the pitch and lit up his end-of-match heatmap , delivered perfect passes to everyone, and finally won a free kick right on the edge of the box.

He took the free kick himself and the ball went into the net: 3-1 final score and his 19th World Cup goal, the 6th in this edition and his 7th in a row. More and more of a record man in every imaginable stat.

😱 Viral video: the comparison with CR7’s free kick

But Messi’s exploits are never viewed in isolation: they are immediately compared with those of CR7 who, tonight, was anonymous with his Portugal.

In particular, a comparison between two free kicks immediately went viral: the one scored by Messi and the one Cristiano Ronaldo badly hit (albeit from a greater distance) against Colombia.

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