Messi makes three in rout of Guatemala and Argentina Maradona overcomes

Recovering from an injury in his right leg, Lionel Messi was not present in the selection of some hours before Argentina's friendly against Guatemala on Friday night. But the best of the world not only played, as given show. With three goals in the 4-0 victory, he reached the mark of 35, surpassing Diego Maradona and Hernan Crespo equalizing as the second highest scorer in the history of the Argentine national team.

Messi scored twice with beautiful trimmings plate, even made a penalty kick, which he suffered. Fernandez, head, left his mark in the rout. Now, the Barcelona player is behind Gabriel Batistuta, top scorer of the Argentina national team, with 56 goals.

Already ruled out of CONCACAF qualifying, Guatemala has little work to Argentina, who bet on a line with flywheels Guiñazu Mascherano and, besides giving a new opportunity Coloccini in defense. The attack began with Lavezzi, Aguero and Messi, who came out just 22 minutes into the second half to make way for Palacio.

The ace left field cheered by fans Guatemalans who saw the site selection to be punished, but in compensation witnessed a show of Lionel Messi. After just 15 minutes, he opened the scoring with a great goal. After receiving the intermediate, advanced on marking in the corner and sent the goalkeeper Jerez, could do nothing.

Argentina continued to press and got the second goal on 35 minutes with a header from Fernandez. And, in the final minutes of the first half, Messi shine again. He invaded the area in individual play and was knocked down, suffering penalty that he converted.

The fourth goal came just four minutes of the first half, and this time Messi did not need a genius move. After a table Argentine attack, received the number 10 shirt in the penalty area in front of the goal and only had the job of moving the goalkeeper.

Afterward, coach Alejandro Sabella has defaced the team with a sequence of changes, and the pace of the game dropped. But the damage was already done. With the display in Guatemala, Messi reached the mark of 35 goals for and 25. Maradona reached his 34th try with the shirt of Argentina only to 34.