- Updates from the 7pm GMT kick-off at Ahmad bin Ali Stadium
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Lionel Messi plays the 1,000th game of his career tonight. He has scored 788 goals in that time, but none have been at the business end of a World Cup. It’s one of modern football’s odder stats that the Goat brothers, Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, have never scored in a World Cup knockout game. This will be Messi’s ninth attempt.
Both managers make one change. Papu Gomez replaces Angel Di Maria, who was a doubt because of a thigh injury and is only on the Argentina bench. And St Mirren’s Keanu Baccus make his full international debut for Australia, replacing Craig Goodwin. That means a paradoxically defensive switch from 4-4-2 to 4-3-3.
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