Lionel Messi has made it to the 2022 World Cup final with Argentina on his mission to win the tournament’s biggest prize for the first time.
Messi scored a goal from the spot and assisted a goal while Julián Álvarez scored a brace leading Argentina to a 3-0 win over Croatia on Tuesday that set up a meeting with either France or Morocco in Sunday’s title match.
The 7 times Ballon D’Or winner has overtaken football icon Gabriel Batistuta as the nation’s top-ever scorer at a World Cup after he gave them the lead 2022 World Cup semi-final against Croatia.
It will be Messi’s second World Cup final — Argentina lost the other one to Germany in 2014 — in what might be his last appearance at the tournament.
Meanwhile, the 2018 Balon d’Or winner, Lucas Modric’s, side allowed Emiliano Martinez to keep a clean sheet.
Argentina plays the 2022 FIFA World Cup Final on Sunday