On a Monday night at Dallas Stadium (AT&T Stadium) in Arlington, the defending champions needed only one man to settle a tense Group J fixture. Lionel Messi struck on either side of the 90 minutes — once just before the interval, once deep into stoppage time — to hand Argentina a 2-0 win over Austria and seal a knockout berth with a group game still to come.
The two finishes carried Messi to 18 goals across his World Cup career, lifting him clear of Germany's Miroslav Klose as the outright all-time leading scorer in the men's tournament's history.
