Match day six in the World Cup will be defined about the big boys coming out to play.

It all started with Killing Mbapé, bagging a brace as France kicked off their campaign with a 3-1 win over Senegal.

The baton then handed to Erling Harlan. He got two as Norway swept aside Iraq with a 4-1 victory for Norwegians. But the best till last, Lin Al Messi, incredible. A hat trick for him as Argentina, the defending champions will kick off the defense of their title with a 3-0 win.

Welcome into the next edition of ESPNFC.

I'm Dan Thomas, joined by Ali Moreno and Nader Manua so many.

Narratives going into today's matches, but in the end there is one man. It will steal all the headlines, not Harlan, not Mbapé, but Leonel Messi, who made history getting a hat trick in that final game that we saw today.

You go back to this time, 20 years ago is when he got his first goal in a World Cup.

Today he got three, his first ever World Cup hat trick.

What a time to do it.

There's Argentina beat Algeria by three goals to nil.

What a start to the defense of their campaign. And if we haven't said enough

about Lionel Messi over the years, get ready for more superlatives over the next few minutes.

Argentina thoroughly deserving of the victory. Algeria put up a bit of a fight and in the

end the superiority shone through from the

South American sides.

I wonder where we'll start, Ali.

Yeah, and the truth is that we didn't really know what the status of Leonel Messi was going

to be coming into this match.

Over the last month, month and a half, what we saw from Lenel Messe was 20 minutes a week ago against Iceland.

Now, he was sharp in those 20 minutes, he scored a goal in those 20 minutes, and he looked good.

But we didn't know how physically fit he was and whether he was ready to provide the moments of magic for Argentina.

That was the question. And it was a fair question to ask the moments of magic for Argentina. That was the question.

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