{"id":514606,"date":"2026-07-04T02:01:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T06:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=514606"},"modified":"2026-07-04T02:01:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T06:01:22","slug":"argentina-eliminates-cape-verde-in-extra-time-drama","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/argentina-eliminates-cape-verde-in-extra-time-drama\/","title":{"rendered":"Argentina eliminates Cape Verde in extra time drama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Argentina needed 111<sup>th<\/sup> minute own goal to eliminate Cape Verde and to avoid 1 of the biggest upsets in World Cup history as they ultimately advanced to the 1\/8 finals of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The debutants came back 2 times to even the result vs. a team that is ranked 2<sup>nd<\/sup> in the world.<\/p>\n<p>With the match 1-1 after the regular time, Cape Verde forced Argentina to play extra time. Lisandro Martinez scored only 2 minutes into it and thought that he had won it for his country.<\/p>\n<p>However, Sidny Lopes Cabral scored 1 of the tournament\u2019s great goals when the Cape Verde player cut inside to the left of the box and whipped a curling strike over Emi Martinez and into the top corner for 2-2.<\/p>\n<p>Cabral was close to tying the result for a 3<sup>rd<\/sup> time, but Martinez saved his shot, and this way Argentina avoided penalties.<\/p>\n<p>The opening goal in the match was scored by Leo Messi in the 29<sup>th<\/sup> minute, as that was his 20<sup>th<\/sup> World Cup goal, and everyone thought that the South American country would only score more in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> half, but Cape Verde had other plans and despite the defeat, made all football fans proud of them.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Argentina&#39;s extra time winner sends them to the Round of 16! \ud83d\udc4f<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/FIFAWorldCup?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">#FIFAWorldCup<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; FIFA World Cup (@FIFAWorldCup) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FIFAWorldCup\/status\/2073206909880971455?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">July 4, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Argentina needed 111th minute own goal to eliminate Cape Verde and to avoid 1 of the biggest upsets in World Cup history as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":514609,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17143,27137],"news_category":[14236,14235],"gn_keywords":[17906,27138],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"The defending World Cup champions needed extra time to win.","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\/514606"}],"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=514606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/514606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":514610,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/514606\/revisions\/514610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514606"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=514606"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=514606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}