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The experience of being World Cup champion is making a difference in this case. At 37, Ángel di María is one of the leaders of the Club World Cup artillery after taking three penalty kicks in the first three matches.
From Benfica’s departure to Argentina’s Rosario Central, Di Maria is running the Portuguese team, which is one of the surprises of the World Cup. Despite being in Bayern Munich and Boca Juniors’s group, the incarnates ended the initial phase in the lead after beating German favorites and will face Chelsea in the round of 16 – the duel will be held on Saturday (28/6), at 17h, in Charlotte.
And this good performance goes through the performances of Di Maria. At the premiere against Boca, he scored the score of the game that would end up drawing 2-2. Already in front of Auckland City, he scored the first – who took the pressure from Benfica’s “shoulders” – and the last, crowning the 6-0 win.
These three performances had a grade 7.3, 10 and 7.4, respectively, by Sofascore, a site specialized in statistics. The average of 8.23 put Di Maria as the second best among all athletes who played the first three matches, behind only Bayern Munich’s Michael Olise (8.37).
The French player of the German club is also one of four athletes who share the World Cup with Di Maria. In addition to the two attackers, Musiala, also from Bayern, Yildiz, Juventus, and Abdou Ali, from already eliminated Al-Ahly, also scored three goals.
Artillery of the Club World Cup
3 goals:
- Abdou ali (al-ahly)
- Di María (Benfica)
- Musiala (Bayern)
- Olise (Bavaria)
- Yildiz (Juventus)
2 goals:
- Barreiro (Benfica)
- Barrios (Atlético de Madrid)
- Berterame (Monterrey)
- Coman (Bavaria)
- Doku (Mancheter City)
- Foot: (Manchester City)
- Francisco Conceição (Juventus)
- Gonzalo García (Real Madrid)
- Gündogan (Manchester City)
- Igor Jesus (Botafogo)
- Kolo Muani (Juventus)
- Haaland (Manchester City)
- Lautaro Martínez (Inter Milan)
- Pedro Neto (Chelsea)
- Rayners (Mamelodi Sundows)
- Samu Aghehowa (Porto)
- Thomas Müller (Bavaria)
- Valverde (Real Madrid)
- Vlahovic (Juventus)
- Wallace Yan (Flamengo)
