The Match Highlight: The Argentina National Football Team aims to improve on their last World Cup campaign and progress past the round of 16. The Argentinian National Team faces a tough task in ensuring Lionel Messi’s international career ends with World Cup glory. However, they’ll have to do it this Saturday when they play Australia. (Sun, Dec 4, 2022, 1:00) Ahmed bin Ali Stadium, Qatar. Ref: Szymon Marciniak.
This is the first game ever played between Australia and Argentina at the World Cup. It is also the first time that Argentina had faced Australia since 2007, when Argentina won 1-0, thanks to a goal from Martin Demichelis. Australia’s best performance against Argentina in seven matches was 4-1 back in 1988. This was during the Australian bicentenary Gold Cup. They ended up winning the match, with goals from Paul Wade, Charlie Yankos (x2), and Vlado Bozinoski. The Socceroos’ current manager Graham Arnold also played for Australia that day.
FULL TIME: Argentina 2-1 Australia
Key Moments:
| Argentina | Australia | |
| Winner/Loser | won | lost |
| Goal | 2 | 1 |
| Assists | ||
| Ball Possession | 54% | 46% |
| Big Chances | 1 | 5 |
| Passes | 532 | 586 |
| Accurate Passes | 343(80%) | 287(77%) |
| Total Shots (On Target) | 4 | 6 |
| Foul | 17 | 10 |
| Yellow Card | 5 | 2 |
| Red Card | 0 | 0 |
| Offside | 0 | 0 |
| Corner | 2 | 0 |
| Keeper Saves | 3 | 2 |
| Player Of The Match |
Lionel Messi |
Australia’s best performance against Argentina in seven matches was 4-1 back in 1988. This was during the Australian bicentenary Gold Cup. They ended up winning the match, with goals from Paul Wade, Charlie Yankos (x2), and Vlado Bozinoski. The Socceroos’ current manager Graham Arnold also played for Australia that day.
This is the first game ever played between Australia and Argentina at the World Cup. It is also the first time that Argentina had faced Australia since 2007, when Argentina won 1-0 thanks to a goal from Martin Demichelis. Argentina has only faced 11 shots in their three games at the 2022 World Cup; no team has conceded less than half of their shots in the tournament. Indeed, this is the fewest shots that Argentina has allowed in a World Cup tournament group stage since 1966.
Forward Lionel Messi wants to participate in the final stages of the soccer World Cup for Argentina for the first time, with eight of his goals resulting in group-stage victories. He had 23 shots without scoring in the afflicted stages of that competition, even as he’d guided his team to the round of 16 in each of 2010, 2014, and 2018 years, thereby making Lionel Messi the sole player who himself won the quarterfinal stage of any edition. So final score is Argentina 2-1 Australia
