BUENOS AIRES: Argentina confirmed once once more how reliant they're on Lionel Messi because the Barcelona ahead scored a hat-trick in their Four-0 World Cup warm-up win over Haiti on Tuesday.
With Javier Mascherano making his 143rd appearance to place him one ahead of Javier Zanetti as Argentina's most capped player, Messi were given the opener from the penalty spot after 17 minutes.
He doubled their lead 12 minutes into the second one half with a simple tap-in after the goalkeeper may simplest parry a header, scored Argentina's 3rd after 65 minutes, and then arrange Sergio Aguero to make it 4 just two minutes later.
Argentina failed to add to their tally but will have to were additional ahead against Haiti, whose sole appearance at the World Cup finals came in 1974 and are ranked 108th on the earth, 103 puts beneath them on the earth scores.
"More than the result we were able to say goodbye to our fans and show that we are going to Russia with hope," Messi mentioned.
"We're not going as favourites because we had a complicated time in the qualifiers, but we are training well and we will give it our all."
Aguero used to be are compatible once more after a knee injury but started the game on the bench, with Gonzalo Higuain and Angel Di Maria starting up entrance along Messi.
However, both males failed to polish and instead it used to be Aguero and Boca Juniors' Christian Pavon who staked their declare for a World Cup position after they came on after an hour.
Argentina now fly to Barcelona to arrange for World Cup suits against Iceland on June 16, Croatia on June 21 and Nigeria on June 26.
With Javier Mascherano making his 143rd appearance to place him one ahead of Javier Zanetti as Argentina's most capped player, Messi were given the opener from the penalty spot after 17 minutes.
He doubled their lead 12 minutes into the second one half with a simple tap-in after the goalkeeper may simplest parry a header, scored Argentina's 3rd after 65 minutes, and then arrange Sergio Aguero to make it 4 just two minutes later.
Argentina failed to add to their tally but will have to were additional ahead against Haiti, whose sole appearance at the World Cup finals came in 1974 and are ranked 108th on the earth, 103 puts beneath them on the earth scores.
"More than the result we were able to say goodbye to our fans and show that we are going to Russia with hope," Messi mentioned.
"We're not going as favourites because we had a complicated time in the qualifiers, but we are training well and we will give it our all."
Aguero used to be are compatible once more after a knee injury but started the game on the bench, with Gonzalo Higuain and Angel Di Maria starting up entrance along Messi.
However, both males failed to polish and instead it used to be Aguero and Boca Juniors' Christian Pavon who staked their declare for a World Cup position after they came on after an hour.
Argentina now fly to Barcelona to arrange for World Cup suits against Iceland on June 16, Croatia on June 21 and Nigeria on June 26.
Messi grabs hat-trick as Argentina canter to 4-0 win
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