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ARLINGTON, Texas \u2014 Lionel Messi set a World Cup record with his 17th and 18th goals, and defending champion Argentina advanced to the knockout stage with a 2-0 victory over Austria on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Messi had a golden opportunity to break the record in the ninth minute, but went wide right on a penalty kick. Almost 30 minutes later, Messi caught Alexander Schlager leaning the wrong way after Thiago Almada let Facuno Medina\u2019s pass go by him directly onto Messi\u2019s left foot.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Messi scored again in injury time to move twogoals ahead of Germany striker Miroslav Klose.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Messi passed Germany striker Miroslav Klose for most goals scored in World Cup history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"yoast_head":"\nLionel Messi sets World Cup scoring record as defending champion Argentina advances to knockout stage - Boston Relocation Insider<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=3353\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lionel Messi sets World Cup scoring record as defending champion Argentina advances to knockout stage - 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