Foot­ball fans packed Hut Shutts in Tacarigua as an­tic­i­pa­tion reached fever pitch ahead of Ar­genti­na’s World Cup clash against Aus­tria on Mon­day, with sup­port­ers hop­ing to wit­ness a piece of foot­ball his­to­ry.

The fo­cus of the af­ter­noon was firm­ly on Li­onel Mes­si, who en­tered the match with 16 goals, just one away from be­com­ing the FI­FA World Cup’s all-time lead­ing goalscor­er. The record be­fore kick-off was held by Ger­many’s Miroslav Klose with 16 in 24 match­es across four tour­na­ments be­tween 2002 and 2014.

As kick­off ap­proached, ex­cite­ment buzzed through­out the venue, with fans dis­cussing the pos­si­bil­i­ty of see­ing the Ar­gen­tine su­per­star break yet an­oth­er record.