Erling Haaland, Kylian Mbappe and Lionel Messi all scored braces as the World Cup goal scorer record was broken by Lionel Messi. Lionel Messi missed a penalty but made up for it with unerring finishes to break Miroslav Klose’s record and stamp his name as the leading men’s goalscorer of all time with eighteen goals. Messi has paid unwavering faith in his abilities from his country through hattricks and a brace, he would be hoping to lead his country to back-to-back titles, talkSPORT reports.
Kylian Mbappe served up a reminder of why he became France’s leading goalscorer of all time this year with another clinical brace with Ousmane Dembele on the scoresheet as France put Algeria to sword winning 3-0. Mbappe is on course to break Messi’s record bu will have to wait till the end of the tournament to be sure
Erling Haaland reminded the world why he is Norway’s top marksman and leading goalscorer with another brace on a day full of them in his bid for the World Cup golden boot. He netted twice in the first half of Norway’s opener vs Iraq before following it up with a brace against Senegal as they ran out 3-2 winners. He’d be hoping to extend his tally on the final day before the knockout stages commence.
Elsewhere, Algeria came from behind to beat Jordan 1-2 with Amin Gouiri scoring the winner. They face Austria in their final group game in what could be the decider for the knockout stages.
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