Group JFull time
Final · Jun 27AT&T Stadium, Arlington, TX
Goals
4 goals
The market saw itPolymarket
The stakes
Full time: Argentina 3-1 Jordan — a Group J result now baked into the table.
- storylineMessi's Last DanceVintage hat-trick in a 3-0 win over Algeria (June 16) — his FIRST-ever World Cup hat-trick at age 38, drawing level with Miroslav Klose on 16 career WC goals, the all-time record. One more goal makes it his outright. Argentina top Group J.
The two sides
ArgentinaChampions, Messi's last World Cup
Reigning world champions and a whole country holding its breath for one last Messi miracle — he opened with a hat-trick at 38. The stakes are not just winning; they are sending him out right.
JordanTheir first-ever World Cup
Forty years of trying, the royal family in the stands, and their first-ever World Cup goal to prove they belong — Argentina looming is not a problem for Jordan, it is the entire point.
Who plays where
Argentina
- Inter Miami CF ×2Lionel Messi, Rodrigo De Paul
- Aston VillaEmiliano Martinez
- Atletico MadridJulian Alvarez
- Atlético MadridNahuel Molina
- ChelseaEnzo Fernández
- Inter MilanLautaro Martinez
Jordan
- Al-Hussein FCYazeed Abulaila
- Al-Sailiya SCAli Olwan
- FC SeoulYazan Al-Arab
- Selangor FCNoor Al-Rawabdeh
- Stade RennaisMousa Al-Taamari