Messi scores fastest career goal

In the friendly match, Argentina beat Australia 2-0

Lionel Messi scored a “lightning goal” during a friendly played this Thursday morning (15), where Argentina beat Australia 2-0. and 19 seconds before the start of the match in Beijing, China.

The bid began with an error by the Australian defense, which allowed a quick exchange of passes in the Argentine attack, until the ball reached Messi’s feet. The ace quickly dominated and hit a beautiful shot from outside the area, at mid-height, in the right corner of goalkeeper Mathew Ryan.

Until then, Messi’s fastest goal had happened in 2018, in Barcelona’s match against Chelsea, for the Champions League, the Argentine scored at 2 minutes and 7 seconds of the start of the match. For his country’s national team, Messi had the fastest goal he scored in the 2014 World Cup, in Brazil, against Nigeria, at 2 minutes and 26 seconds.

The friendly with Australia was Argentina’s third game since winning its third world title at the World Cup in Qatar, in December last year, in which Argentina defeated Australia 2-0.

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