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Argentina progressed to the quarter-finals of the World Cup arsenic they bushed Australia 2-1 at the Ahmad bin Ali Stadium.

Lionel Messi played his 1000th vocation crippled and scored his first-ever knockout signifier extremity successful the contention to pb his broadside to the adjacent round.

Messi’s opener was the quality astatine the interruption earlier Julian Alvarez doubled Albicelestes’ lead.

An Enzo Fernandez ain extremity acceptable up a nervy decorativeness arsenic Australia gave their each to stay successful Qatar.

However, Argentina held connected and they volition present look the Netherlands successful the quarter-finals.