{"id":394720,"date":"2022-11-22T07:25:47","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T12:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=394720"},"modified":"2022-11-22T08:31:22","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T13:31:22","slug":"hapless-argentina-suffer-shock-defeat-to-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/hapless-argentina-suffer-shock-defeat-to-saudi-arabia\/","title":{"rendered":"Hapless Argentina suffer shock defeat to Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph-paragraph-2Bgue ArticleBody-para-TD_9x\">Pre-tournament favorites Argentina slipped to a surprise 2-1 defeat to Saudi Arabia, ranked 51st in the world, in the World Cup Group C opener at Lusail Iconic Stadium\u2014the site of the World Cup final, on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"tl\" dir=\"ltr\">Saudi Arabia beat Argentina. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/adidasfootball?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@adidasfootball<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FIFAWorldCup?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#FIFAWorldCup<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; FIFA World Cup (@FIFAWorldCup) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FIFAWorldCup\/status\/1595026134504296449?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 22, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>La Albiceleste, who became the first side in World Cup history to start four players aged 34 or over, took the lead after a VAR review a penalty after Leandro Paredes was brought down during a corner in the eighth minute.<\/p>\n<p>Leo Messi, who became the fourth men\u2019s player to make five World Cup appearances, stepped to the spot and easily slotted the ball into the bottom corner for the goal.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Messi&#39;s penalty gives <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ARG?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#ARG<\/a> a half-time lead \u26a1\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FIFAWorldCup?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#FIFAWorldCup<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Qatar2022?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Qatar2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; FIFA World Cup (@FIFAWorldCup) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FIFAWorldCup\/status\/1595007351475650564?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 22, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Argentina, who were unbeaten in their previous 36 matches, appeared to have doubled their lead on three occasions, but the goals were disallowed due to offside.<\/p>\n<p>Just before halftime, Saudi Arabia was dealt a serious blow when captain Salman Al-Faraj was subbed off with an injury.<\/p>\n<p>However, Herve Renard&#8217;s men produced one of the great World Cup upsets by launching an extraordinary second half comeback.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Al-Dawsari has turned this game on its head! \ud83d\ude33<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FIFAWorldCup?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#FIFAWorldCup<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Qatar2022?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Qatar2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; FIFA World Cup (@FIFAWorldCup) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FIFAWorldCup\/status\/1595016191931813890?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 22, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Less than three minutes into the second half, Saudi Arabia levelled the score courtesy of Saleh Al-Shehri while five minutes later Salem Al-Dawsari made it 2-1 with a delightful curling shot past Argentina goalkeeper Emiliano Mart\u00ednez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pre-tournament favorites Argentina slipped to a surprise 2-1 defeat to Saudi Arabia, ranked 51st in the world, in the World Cup Group C [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":394721,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16898],"news_category":[14235,14236,16671,16715],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"Argentina were unbeaten in their previous 36 matches","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/394720"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/394720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394720"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=394720"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=394720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}