The 3-0 loss against Croatia was Argentina's biggest group stage defeat since 1958 - when they lost 6-1 to Czechoslovakia. Here are a few more notable numbers that humiliating defeat threw up.
647
Lionel Messi has now gone 647 minutes without a World Cup goal, including two straight games in 2018. His last World Cup goal was in the injury time of the first half of Argentina's last group stage game against Nigeria, in Porto Alegre in 2014. He has since featured in four knockout games in 2014, three of which went into extra-time and beyond, and two group matches in Russia.
270.8
Messi averages a goal every 93.3 minutes for Barcelona in all competitions but, in the World Cup, his ratio is almost three times that number. In Russia, he has taken 12 shots without scoring; just one of those was against Croatia, when he recorded two touches in the attacking penalty area.
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It is after 11 World Cup campaigns that Argentina have failed to win both of their opening games. In 1974, they lost to Poland 3-2 and then were held to a 1-1 draw by Italy in their first two matches, both in Stuttgart. At every World Cup campaign since, they have had at least one win in the first two matches, including a 1-0 win over Nigeria in their opening game in 2002, their only campaign since then when they have failed to advance from the group stages of a World Cup.
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Croatia are through to the second round of a World Cup for the first time since their debut in 1998, when they finished in third place after a run up to the semi-finals in France. In their three World Cup campaigns since -- 2002, 2006 and 2014 -- they have always been eliminated in the league stages.
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This is Argentina's heaviest defeat in the World Cup group stages since the 6-1 defeat to Czechoslovakia in 1958. That was the first time that they were eliminated in the group stages of a World Cup, something that has happened only twice more -- in 1962 and 2002.
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Luka Modric, who also scored in Croatia's 2-0 win in their opening game of the 2018 World Cup, is the third Croatian to score in back-to-back World Cup games. Davor Suker, top scorer in the 1998 World Cup, did it in four games in France, while Ivan Perisic did it in two matches, against Cameroon and Mexico, during the 2014 World Cup.
(Statistics courtesy of ESPN's Stats & Information Group)