{"id":5347,"date":"2026-07-09T08:55:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T08:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/?p=5347"},"modified":"2026-07-09T08:55:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T08:55:40","slug":"fifa-world-cup-2026-280-goals-scored-in-96-matches-argentina-lead-scoring-chart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/?p=5347","title":{"rendered":"FIFA World Cup 2026: 280 Goals Scored in 96 Matches, Argentina Lead Scoring Chart"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to international media reports, a total of <strong>280 goals<\/strong> have been scored in the <strong>first 96 matches<\/strong> of the <strong>FIFA World Cup 2026<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Argentina<\/strong> have emerged as the tournament&#8217;s highest-scoring team with <strong>14 goals<\/strong>. Captain <strong>Lionel Messi<\/strong> leads the Golden Boot race with <strong>8 goals<\/strong>, taking his overall FIFA World Cup tally to <strong>21 goals<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the <strong>first time in World Cup history<\/strong>, three players have scored <strong>seven or more goals<\/strong> in a single edition. Alongside Messi, <strong>Kylian Mbapp\u00e9<\/strong> and <strong>Erling Haaland<\/strong> have each netted <strong>7 goals<\/strong>, making them the tournament&#8217;s leading scorers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mbapp\u00e9 has also extended his <strong>World Cup knockout-stage scoring record to 11 goals<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The report added that the FIFA World Cup has now witnessed <strong>3,000 goals<\/strong> in its history, with <strong>Enzo Fern\u00e1ndez<\/strong> scoring the landmark <strong>3,000th World Cup goal<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to a sports statistics website, referees have shown <strong>259 yellow cards<\/strong> and <strong>14 red cards<\/strong> so far during the tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to international media reports, a total of 280 goals have been scored in the first 96 matches of the FIFA World Cup 2026. Argentina..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/437710_2647385_updates-1.jpg",700,400,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/437710_2647385_updates-1-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/437710_2647385_updates-1-300x171.jpg",300,171,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/437710_2647385_updates-1.jpg",700,400,false],"large":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/437710_2647385_updates-1.jpg",700,400,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/437710_2647385_updates-1.jpg",700,400,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/437710_2647385_updates-1.jpg",700,400,false]},"author_info":{"info":["admin"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/?cat=6\" rel=\"category\">Sports<\/a>","tag_info":"Sports","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5349,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5347\/revisions\/5349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}