Indian soccer workforce captain Sunil Chhetri’s brace towards Bangladesh in Doha, Qatar, on Monday (June 7) helped him etch his title in sport’s record e book, going past Argentina and Barcelona’s talismanic striker Lionel Messi to turn out to be the second-highest worldwide goalscorer on the planet.
After struggling a loss by the hands of reigning AFC Asian Champions Qatar, Chhetri-led Blue Tigers bounced again to successful methods by crushing Bangladesh 2-0 of their Group E fixture of the 2022 FIFA World Cup and 2023 AFC Asian Cup joint qualifiers on the Jassim Bin Hamad stadium. In the method, Chhetri has eclipsed Messi and United Arab Emirates (UAE) star Ali Mabkhout to turn out to be the second-highest worldwide goalscorer within the present listing of lively males’s footballers. Chhetri scored his 73rd and 74th worldwide objectives in India’s 2-0 win over Bangladesh.
He’s now obtained greater than Messi! Sunil Chhetri’s double earns the Blue Tigers a 2-0 win in #WCQ and strikes him on to 74 worldwide objectives – above Lionel Messi and one off coming into world soccer’s all-time high 10 @chetrisunil11 | @IndianFootball pic.twitter.com/sCCd6BgS9H
— FIFA World Cup (@FIFAWorldCup) June 7, 2021
With 74 worldwide strikes to his title, Team India skipper Chhetri is simply behind Portuguese famous person Cristiano Ronaldo within the listing of lively worldwide goalscorers. Ronaldo has 103 worldwide objectives underneath his belt and the Portugal captain is tipped to increase his unbelievable goal-tally within the sixteenth version of the European Championship (UEFA Euro 2020), which begins on June 11.
Chhetri broke the impasse within the 79th minute when he headed in Ashique Kuruniyan’s cross from the left. He then sealed the outcome by curling in a shot from lengthy vary in added time.
Starting the match on the bench, second-half substitute Ashique delivered a cross from the left for Chhetri, who, after a bursting run and from an acute angle, headed in brilliantly from behind Topu Barman, on the Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium.
It was that man Chhetri once more as he rounded off his night time with one other high quality strike in further time (90+2) after receiving the ball from Suresh Singh from the appropriate flank.
