THE FIRST FOR LIONEL MESSI !
Picture : a new Record for Lionel Messi
Messi’s first penta-trick for Argentina!
*Another great feat from Lionel Messi: 5 goals scored in one game (a friendly Argentina vs Estonia 5-0)! He equaled his personal record and made the 2nd penta-trick in his career, after scoring 5 for Barcelona vs Bayer Leverkusen on 7 March 2012 in the game Champions League round of 16 (7-1 win).
Cristiano Ronaldo also has 2 penta-tricks in his career.
*This is 8th hat-trick of Messi for national team (in all 7 previous cases he scored 3 goals) and 56th overall in the career. In both these categories, he concedes to Cristiano Ronaldo (10 and 60 respectively).
*Five out of eight Messi’s national team hat-tricks occurred in the friendlies. For comparison, Cristiano Ronaldo scored all his 10 hat-tricks in competitive games.
*Messi has raised his tally for Argentina from 81 to 86 goals cruising past Ferenc Puskás (84) in the historical ranking. Now Messi is 4th best national team goal-scorer, after Cristiano Ronaldo (117), Ali Daei (109) and Mokhtar Dahari (89).
*Messi equaled the record of Argentina national team on goals scored by player in a game. He is the third in its history to make a penta-trick, after Juan Andrés Marvezzi and José Manuel Moreno.
In the all cases the name of opposition started from E (Ecuador, Estonia).
| MESSI HAT-TRICKS | FOR ARGENTINA | |||
| Game | Date | Tournament | Goals | |
| 1 | Switzerland 3-1 | 29/02/2012 | Friendly | 3 |
| 2 | Brazil 4-3 | 09/06/2012 | Friendly | 3 |
| 3 | Guatemala 4-0 | 15/06/2013 | Friendly | 3 |
| 4 | Panama 5-0 | 11/06/2016 | Copa America | 3 |
| 5 | Ecuador 3-1 | 11/10/2017 | World Cup Qualifier | 3 |
| 6 | Haiti 4-0 | 30/05/2018 | Friendly | 3 |
| 7 | Bolivia 3-0 | 10/09/2021 | World Cup Qualifier | 3 |
| 8 | Estonia 5-0 | 05/06/2022 | Friendly | 5 |
| ARGENTINA | BEST | ONE-MATCH | GOAL-SCORERS | ||
| Player | Goals | Date | Game | Tournament | |
| Juan Andrés Marvezzi | 5 | 16/02/1941 | Ecuador 6-1 | Copa América | |
| José Manuel Moreno | 5 | 22/01/1942 | Ecuador 12-0 | Copa América | |
| Lionel Messi | 5 | 05/06/2022 | Estonia 5-0 | Friendly |