{"id":514673,"date":"2026-07-07T15:04:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T19:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=514673"},"modified":"2026-07-07T15:04:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T19:04:32","slug":"argentina-eliminates-egypt-after-crazy-3-2-comeback-victory","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/argentina-eliminates-egypt-after-crazy-3-2-comeback-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Argentina eliminates Egypt after crazy 3-2 comeback victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Argentina was trailing 2-0 after 67 minutes against Egypt, but found a way to win in the regular time after scoring 3 late goals for the epic comeback win at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, and this way Leo Messi and his teammates continue in the World Cup and can still defend its title.<\/p>\n<p>Everything started perfectly for the African country as they took the lead after only 15 minutes and kept it at halftime.<\/p>\n<p>At the beginning of the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> half, Mostafa Ziko doubled Egypt\u2019s lead, but his goal was controversially disallowed. Despite that, Mostafa Ziko scored again in the 67<sup>th<\/sup> minute and made his team\u2019s lead 2 goals.<\/p>\n<p>However, Argentina found a way to come back in the match when Leo Messi assisted Christian Romero in the 79<sup>th<\/sup> minute, while Argentinian superstar tied the result himself in the 83<sup>rd<\/sup> minute.<\/p>\n<p>When everyone expected another extra time, after that was exactly what happened in Argentina\u2019s previous game against Cape Verde, this time in the additional time, Lautaro Martinez found Enzo Fernandez, and he scored the winning goal in the 92<sup>nd<\/sup> minute in another crazy World Cup game for his nation in the USA.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\udfc6 <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/FIFAWorldCup?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">#FIFAWorldCup<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u26bd <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/Argentina?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">#Argentina<\/a> 3 (Cristian Romero, Lionel <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/Messi?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">#Messi<\/a> y Enzo Fern\u00e1ndez) \ud83c\udd9a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/Egipto?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">#Egipto<\/a> \ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddec 2 (Yasser Ibrahim y Mostafa Ziko)<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc49 \u00a1Final del partido!<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd25 Imposible no ilusionarse&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc4b \u00a1Nos vemos en cuartos de final! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WufX8l2IME\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/WufX8l2IME<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddf7 Selecci\u00f3n Argentina \u2b50\u2b50\u2b50 (@Argentina) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Argentina\/status\/2074555561111134527?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">July 7, 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 was trailing 2-0 after 67 minutes against Egypt, but found a way to win in the regular time after scoring 3 late [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":514674,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17143,21228],"news_category":[14236,14235],"gn_keywords":[17906,21229],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"The reigning World Cup champions advanced to the \u00bc finals.","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\/514673"}],"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=514673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/514673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":514675,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/514673\/revisions\/514675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514673"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=514673"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=514673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}