{"id":505221,"date":"2025-11-14T15:23:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T19:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=505221"},"modified":"2025-11-14T15:23:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T19:23:34","slug":"messi-leads-argentina-to-2-0-win-vs-angola-in-pre-world-cup-friendly","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/messi-leads-argentina-to-2-0-win-vs-angola-in-pre-world-cup-friendly\/","title":{"rendered":"Messi leads Argentina to 2-0 win vs. Angola in pre-World Cup friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel Messi shone in his nation\u2019s 2-0 triumph away from home vs. Angola as the Argentinian superstar scored and assisted. Lautaro Martinez netted the other goal for Argentina&#8217;s victory in the pre-World Cup friendly played in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Angola, who were celebrating the 50<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of their independence from Portugal, started the match better in front of 50,000 supporters at the stadium, but Geronimo Rulli denied them a goal with brilliant saves.<\/p>\n<p>Their goalkeeper also denied Messi but was left helpless near the end of the 1<sup>st<\/sup> half when Lisandro scored after Lionel\u2019s assist in the 44<sup>th<\/sup> minute.<\/p>\n<p>Near the end of the match, the Argentinian superstar Messi also scored as he netted from 10 yards in the 82<sup>nd<\/sup> minute. That ended the calendar year for Argentina as the nation is 2<sup>nd<\/sup> in the world rankings, and now the focus is on the summer when the World Cup will be held in North America.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Lionel Messi must return to the USA when his team, Inter Miami, will have a match as the playoffs in the MLS begin.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Argentina beat Angola, Messi with an \ud83c\udd70\ufe0f\u2795\u26bd\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd25 895 career goals and 401 assists \ud83e\udd75<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s now only 4 away from 1300 (!) goal contributions \ud83d\ude36\u200d\ud83c\udf2b\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ni8q6E5O0z\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Ni8q6E5O0z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; 433 (@433) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/433\/status\/1989394614495903747?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 14, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel Messi shone in his nation\u2019s 2-0 triumph away from home vs. Angola as the Argentinian superstar scored and assisted. Lautaro Martinez netted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":505223,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17143,17909],"news_category":[14236,14235],"gn_keywords":[17906,17910],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Lionel was on the pitch and helped his country to victory in Africa.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/505221"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505221"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/505221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":505226,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/505221\/revisions\/505226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505221"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=505221"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=505221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}