{"id":484939,"date":"2024-07-05T02:31:06","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T06:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=484939"},"modified":"2024-07-05T02:31:06","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T06:31:06","slug":"argentina-eliminates-ecuador-from-copa-america-after-penalties","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/argentina-eliminates-ecuador-from-copa-america-after-penalties\/","title":{"rendered":"Argentina eliminates Ecuador from Copa America after penalties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Argentina won against Ecuador after a shootout at NRG Stadium in Texas and advanced to the \u00bd finals of the Copa America.<\/p>\n<p>Lisandro Martinez scored the 1<sup>st<\/sup> goal in the match in the 35<sup>th<\/sup> minute after Alexis Mac Allister\u2019s assist to give Argentina the lead in the match. Ecuador had a golden chance to tie the result in the 62<sup>nd<\/sup> minute, but Enner Valencia missed a penalty. However, the drama was full, and Kevin Rodriguez scored in the extra time in the 92nd minute after John Yeboah\u2019s assistance tied the result and forced\u00a0penalties.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\udfc6 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CopaAm%C3%A9rica?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#CopaAm\u00e9rica<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd25\ud83d\ude4c Siiiiiiiiiii, \u00a1SOMOS SEMIFINALISTAS! \ud83d\ude4c\ud83d\udd25<\/p>\n<p>\u26bd <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Argentina?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Argentina<\/a> \ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddf7 1 (4) \ud83c\udd9a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ecuador?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Ecuador<\/a> \ud83c\uddea\ud83c\udde8 1 (2)<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd1c El elenco comandado por Lionel <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Scaloni?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Scaloni<\/a> jugar\u00e1 el pr\u00f3ximo martes por semifinales. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ThBq8BOF8P\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/ThBq8BOF8P<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddf7 Selecci\u00f3n Argentina \u2b50\u2b50\u2b50 (@Argentina) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Argentina\/status\/1809065899644617059?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 5, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In this edition of Copa America, if the result is even after the regular time, the winner is determined directly after a shootout.<\/p>\n<p>Argentina captain Lionel Messi took the 1<sup>st<\/sup> penalty, but he missed it. Angel Mena did the same, and the result remained unchanged. Julian Alvarez, however, scored, but Alan Minda also missed his penalty, and Ecuador started the shootout with 2 missed penalties.<\/p>\n<p>That was enough for Argentina as they didn\u2019t miss until the end and advanced as the other goals were scored by Mac Allister, Montiel, and Otamendi as Emiliano Mart\u00ednez stepped up again in a shootout to see his team triumph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Argentina won against Ecuador after a shootout at NRG Stadium in Texas and advanced to the \u00bd finals of the Copa America. Lisandro [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":484940,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17143,23037,22800],"news_category":[14236,14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[17906,23038,22801],"acf":{"announce":"Messi missed a penalty, but despite that, his team won.","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\/484939"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/484939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484941,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/484939\/revisions\/484941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484939"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=484939"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=484939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}