The Algeria national football team lost their first match in the 2026 World Cup to Argentina with a clean sheet, Lionel Messi scoring a historic hat-trick. The match started with both teams looking evenly matched, with Argentina's organized attack ending in a beautiful pass to Messi, who was running in his favorite position on the right side of the penalty area. After a few minutes, Algeria responded with a deep attack led by young Ibrahim Maza, who tried to beat the Argentine defense with a pass behind the defenders to his teammate Fares Chaibi, who was running on the left side. At the 17th minute, the historic scorer of Barcelona and the Spanish league, Lionel Messi, decided to break the deadlock by scoring the first goal for his team, after receiving the ball with ease and comfort in the depth of the field, and finally launching a powerful shot with his left foot that took the hand of Luca Zidane, the son of Zinedine Zidane, and settled into the net. The Algerian team's performance improved somewhat after the players got their first break in the middle of the first half, and this was evident in the many attempts that were available to the star of the first half from the Algerian side, Fares Chaibi, the most dangerous of which was his shot that hit the outer net. As time went on, the Argentine team, the current World Cup champions, managed to impose their control and almost absolute dominance over the course of events, which gave the impression that their second goal was being cooked on low heat, and that's exactly what Messi did by scoring his second personal goal and his team's second goal from a follow-up to Mac Allister's shot that was deflected by Zidane's hand. Despite the success of the Algerian goalkeeper in preventing Messi from scoring a certain goal in a direct conversation between them after a few minutes of the second goal, he was forced to raise the white flag in the face of Messi's sudden shot, which he launched from the edge of the penalty area on the right side of the goal, and the goalkeeper tried to deal with the ball, but to no avail, ending the match with Messi's historic hat-trick. With this result, the Argentine team has booked its place at the top of this group with three points, awaiting the result of the other match that will bring together the Jordanian and Austrian teams. The Algerian national football team will face Austria in the next match and hopes to achieve a positive result to improve its chances of qualifying for the next round. The Algerian team is considered one of the favorites in the group and hopes to achieve positive results in the upcoming matches.