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Golden Boot race for the ages.** Lionel Messi leads the way with five goals from two games. Kylian Mbappe and Erling Haaland are second in the standings with four goals each. This is only
race for the World Cup’s Golden Boot with three goals after scoring [a hat-trick](/sports/2026/6/17/lionel-messi-rewrites-history-books-at-record-sixth-world-cup) in Argentina’s opening win over Algeria. A group of seven players sits one goal behind: - France
history.** Not wanting to be outdone by the other, Lionel Messi, Kylian Mbappe, Harry Kane and Erling Haaland all came out of the blocks firing in their respective nations' opening fixtures. And as the World
Cup was on. When Mick Jagger toured here with the Rolling Stones in 1965 he infamously called it the "arsehole of the world" but Scott Hastings begged to differ. In two days' time, Scotland were