Argentina vs Algeria FIFA WC 2026 Live Score: Argentina has handed Lionel Messi a start, which will be his his 200th international appearance as he begins a world record 6th FIFA World Cup campaign. While Messi is fit to start, Julian Alvaraz is not in the starting XI. Meanwhile, Algeria has benched star player Riyan Mahrez. Check Line ups:
Argentina Starting XI: Emiliano Martinez; Gonzalo Montiel, Lisandro Martinez, Cristian Romero, Facundo Medina; Rodrigo De Paul, Alexis Mac Allister, Enzo Fernandez; Lionel Messi (c), Thiago Almada, Lautaro Martinez.
Argentina Substitutes: Juan Musso, Geronimo Rulli, Nicolas Tagliafico, Nicolas Otamendi, Nahuel Molina, Marcos Senesi, Leandro Paredes, Valentin Barco, Giovani Lo Celso, Exequiel Palacios, Nico Gonzalez, Julian Alvarez, Giuliano Simeone, Nico Paz, Jose Manuel Lopez.
Algeria Starting XI: Luca Zidane; Aissa Mandi (c), Rayan Ait-Nouri, Rafik Belghali, Ramy Bensebaini; Fares Chaibi, Hicham Boudaoui, Nabil Bentaleb, Ibrahim Maza; Amine Gouiri, Anis Hadj Moussa.
Algeria Substitutes: Melvin Mastil, Oussama Benbot, Achref Abada, Mohamed Amine Tougai, Zineddine Belaid, Jaouen Hadjam, Samir Chergui, Ramiz Zerrouki, Houssem Aouar, Yassine Titraoui, Riyad Mahrez, Nadhir Benbouali, Mohamed Amoura, Adil Boulbina, Fares Ghedjemis.
Lionel Messi will become the first player to play a match in six different FIFA World Cup editions ( will be joined by Cristiano Ronaldo tomorrow) as Argentina kickstart their campaign in hopes of becoming the first team in 64 years to defend their title and win a fourth title.
Already a FIFA world Cup winner, Messi already holds a lot of FIFA World Cup records and has a chance to break many more through the course of the tournament starting from today
This is only the second time (the first in a competitive match) that the two teams are facing each other. The first instance was 19 years ago in 2007 in a friendly, which Argentina won 4-3 at Nou Camp with Messi scoring a brace.
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