{"id":79633,"date":"2026-10-06T17:54:46","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T22:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/06\/lionel-messi-farewell-match-live-updates-and-analysis-from-argentina-v-benin\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T17:54:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T22:54:46","slug":"lionel-messi-farewell-match-live-updates-and-analysis-from-argentina-v-benin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/06\/lionel-messi-farewell-match-live-updates-and-analysis-from-argentina-v-benin\/","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Messi farewell match live \u2013 updates and analysis from Argentina v Benin"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Farewell match kicks off at 7pm ET<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/oct\/06\/lionel-messi-completed-football-argentina-farewell-world-cup-glory\">Messi has completed football<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:pablo.maurer@theguardian.com\">Email Pablo<\/a> your analysis, jokes and more<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Absolutely electric atmosphere at the Estadio Monumental, the home ground of Argentine side River Plate and the largest stadium in the country \u2013 it is filled to capacity well ahead of the opening kick.<\/p>\n<p>Argentina are near-unbeatable at the venue and Messi himself has never lost a match at the stadium, having won 22 of the 28 matches he\u2019s played there with Argentina and drawn the other six, scoring 19 goals along the way.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Goalkeeper:<\/strong> Emiliano Mart\u00ednez<\/p>\n<p><strong>Defenders:<\/strong> Agust\u00edn Giay, Cristian Romero, Nicol\u00e1s Otamendi, Nicol\u00e1s Tagliafico<\/p>\n<p><strong>Midfielders:<\/strong> Enzo Fern\u00e1ndez, Alexis Mac Allister, Rodrigo De Paul<\/p>\n<p><strong>Forwards:<\/strong> Juli\u00e1n \u00c1lvarez, Lautaro Mart\u00ednez, Lionel Mess<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/live\/2026\/oct\/06\/lionel-messi-farewell-match-live-updates-analysis-argentina-benin\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Farewell match kicks off at 7pm ET Messi has completed football Email Pablo your analysis, jokes and more Absolutely electric atmosphere at the Estadio Monumental, the home ground of Argentine side River Plate and the largest stadium in the country \u2013 it is filled to capacity well ahead of the opening kick. Argentina are near-unbeatable &#8230; <a title=\"Lionel Messi farewell match live \u2013 updates and analysis from Argentina v Benin\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/06\/lionel-messi-farewell-match-live-updates-and-analysis-from-argentina-v-benin\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Lionel Messi farewell match live \u2013 updates and analysis from Argentina v Benin\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}