It was a whitewash for Argentina as they thrashed Puerto Rico 6-0 in an international friendly but the main man as usual was Lionel Messi, Softfootball reports.
The 8-time Ballon D’Or winner, who inspired Inter Miami to a 4-0 demolition of Atlanta United only four days ago was in excellent form for the La Albiceleste despite not scoring but created an assist and helped the current World Champions manage the game.
Football expert, Fabrizio Romano via his official X handle shared a key stat on Messi after the encounter. It read:
Leo Messi reaches 60 assists with Argentina, most in international football history beating Neymar’s previous record at 59.
Messi’s also 2 assists away from 400 career assists.
Argentina was the first South American side to qualify for the 2026 FIFA World Cup to be hosted in North America countries, United States, Mexico and Canada and they have maintained a good form since winning the 2022 Mundial in Qatar with a pulsating victory in the final over France.
Argentina’s official X handle celebrated the win as the national team continue to prepare for the defense of their world title.
🏆 #AmistosoInternacional
⚽ @Argentina 🇦🇷 6 (Alexis Mac Allister x2, Gonzalo Montiel, Steven Echevarría e/c y Lautaro Martínez x2) 🆚 #PuertoRico 🇵🇷 0
👉 ¡Final del partido!
🔥 Una Albiceleste a puro gol 🩵🤍 pic.twitter.com/b1cDSggq2b
— 🇦🇷 Selección Argentina ⭐⭐⭐ (@Argentina) October 15, 2025Interestingly against the Puerto Rico, it was the minnows that attacked first and Aston Villa’s number one Emiliano Martínez had to make a save and home fans inside the Chase Stadium in Miami, Florida thoroughly enjoyed that.
But Argentina showed why they are world champions as they took control of the match in a masterful fashion. who smashed a shot against the crossbar and in an attempt to score the rebound Nicolás González volley’s found Liverpool’s Mac Allister, who headed it home to make it 1-0.
Messi then fed a pass to Montiel and he finished with aplomb. Mac Allister got his second goal to make it 3-0 in the first half. It was much of the same in the second half as Nicolás González scored from a deflected shot to make it 4-0 before inter’s captain Lautaro Martínez added two more goals to complete the rout.
