Lionel Messi played the entire game in Argentina’s final World Cup warm-up and scored in a 5-0 rout of the United Arab Emirates as the pre-tournament favourites stretched their unbeaten run to 36 games.

Messi scored his team’s fourth goal right before the break, having also set up Julián Álvarez to open the scoring in the 17th minute. Angel di Maria scored twice in between.