Argentina vs Mexico

When: Today, 10pm Where: Lusail Stadium Capacity: 88,966

Key stats:

■ Lionel Messi has become the fifth player to score at four World Cup finals – after Cristiano Ronaldo, Miroslav Klose, Uwe

Seeler and Pele – and the first Argentine player to feature at five tournaments.

■ Mexico have lost only three of their last 21 World Cup group stage matches (W10 D8) and kept clean sheets in five of their last nine.

■ Saudi Arabia ended Argentina’s 36-match unbeaten run (W25

D11) on Tuesday in one of the biggest upsets in World Cup history.

■ Mexico have failed to score in their last three World Cup games – the goalless draw with Poland on Tuesday and defeats to Sweden and Brazil in 2018.

Previous meetings:

■ The teams first met all the way back at the inaugural World Cup in 1930, when Argentina won 6-3.

■ Argentina have beaten Mexico 16 times in 35 meetings (D14 L5), including all three at a World Cup. They last locked horns in the competition in 2010, when Argentina won 3-1.

■ Mexico last beat Argentina in the Copa America in 2004 but have lost to the South Americans eight times since then (D2).