World Cup 2014 Stats: All the numbers from Argentina vs Bosnia

Argentina beat Bosnia-Hercegovina 2-1 in an entertaining encounter, with Lionel Messi scoring a fantastic goal to put his team in charge and silence his critics. Here are the top stats from the match:

- Vedad Ibisevic has scored Bosnia’s first goal at the World Cup.

- Lionel Messi had played 623 minutes of World Cup football since scoring his other WC goal (v Serbia in 2006).

- Lionel Messi has scored with his first shot on target of the match for Argentina.

- No player was involved in more goals than Edin Dzeko in the European qualifiers (14 – 10 goals and four assists). But he couldn’t get involved in one against Argentina.

- Argentina have won ten and lost just one of their last 13 World Cup group games, drawing two.

- Messi becomes the second Argentine to score successive WC goals 8 years apart following Diego Maradona (1986 and 1994).

- Bosnia-Herzegovina are the 2nd debutant whose 1st goal conceded at a World Cup was an own goal, after Australia in 1974.

- Sead Kolašinac’s own goal after 2:08 is the fastest own goal in World Cup history, beating Carlos Gamarra (2:46) in 2006.

- Lionel Messi opened his goalscoring account in World Cups wearing the shirt number 10. His other goal (vs Serbia in 2006) came when he was wearing shirt No 19.

Stats courtesy Opta, InfoStrada and ESPN