Dallas: Lionel Messi is the third man to score in successive FIFA six World Cup games. He joined Just Fontaine of France and Jairzinho of Brazil who scored goals in six successive World Cup games.

Messi not only broke the tournament’s scoring record setting the record of most individual goals by any player in the tournament’s history. The match against Argentina and Austria held at Dallas Stadium Messi scored a goal on 38^th minute and this is the 17th goal in the FIFA World Cup and also his fourth in the 2026 edition.

Messi improved on the record of 16 goals held by Miroslav Klose of Germany. The list is now led by Messi with 17 goals, followed by Klose at 16 and Ronaldo (Brazil) at 15 goals. Kylian Mbappe of France and Gerd Müller of Germany are next in the list with 14 goals.

As reigning tournament champions, Argentina faced some tough challenges from Austria, and Messi led their fine comeback with a superb goal. He got possession of the ball and passed it to Thiago Almada. Almada sent a masterful pass back to Messi, who received the ball and launched a great shot to beat Austria’s Alexander Schlager. He could have set the record a few minutes earlier, but missed a penalty.

Austria dominated the next few minutes of play and managed to take control of the game, pressing high and cutting off the opponent’s build-up. Playing aggressively, they kept the game even for the next 15 minutes. However, they were completely ineffective, as they could not translate their dominance into a goal.