{"id":22696,"date":"2026-07-08T13:41:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T08:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=22696"},"modified":"2026-07-08T13:41:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T08:41:41","slug":"fifa-world-cup-2026-argentina-beat-egypt-3-2-to-reach-quarter-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=22696","title":{"rendered":"FIFA World Cup 2026: Argentina Beat Egypt 3-2 to Reach Quarter-Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Defending champions Argentina secured a dramatic 3-2 victory over Egypt in the Round of 16 of the 2026 FIFA World Cup to qualify for the quarter-finals.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The match, played in Atlanta, saw Argentina produce a remarkable comeback after falling two goals behind.<\/p>\n<p>Yasser Ibrahim opened the scoring for Egypt in the first half to give his team an early lead.<\/p>\n<p>Argentina were awarded a penalty during the match, but captain Lionel Messi failed to score as Egyptian goalkeeper Mostafa Shobeir produced an impressive save.<\/p>\n<p>Mostafa Ziko later found the net for Egypt, but the goal was disallowed by the referee for a foul.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly afterwards, Ziko scored another impressive goal to extend Egypt&#8217;s lead to 2-0.<\/p>\n<p>Argentina scored their first goal in the 80th minute of the second half before Lionel Messi equalised just three minutes later to make it 2-2.<\/p>\n<p>In the closing moments of the match, Argentina scored a third goal to complete a dramatic 3-2 comeback victory.<\/p>\n<p>Romero, Lionel Messi and Fernandez scored for Argentina, while Yasser Ibrahim and Mostafa Ziko found the net for Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>Argentina will face the winner of the Colombia-Switzerland match in the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n<p>During the match, Egypt head coach Hossam Hassan was shown a yellow card after strongly protesting and arguing with the referee.<\/p>\n<p>Hossam Hassan objected to several refereeing decisions before being warned and booked by the match official.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defending champions Argentina secured a dramatic 3-2 victory over Egypt in the Round of 16 of the 2026 FIFA World Cup to qualify for the quarter-finals. The match, played in Atlanta, saw Argentina produce a remarkable comeback after falling two goals behind. Yasser Ibrahim opened the scoring for Egypt in the first half to give [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22697,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowgLK2DA:productID":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,46,38],"tags":[12440,12957,12964,2451,12963,8945,12961,12441,12960,12959,12824,12962,12648,5347,12958],"class_list":["post-22696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-latest","category-sports","tag-argentina","tag-argentina-vs-egypt","tag-atlanta","tag-egypt","tag-fernandez","tag-fifa-world-cup-2026","tag-hossam-hassan","tag-lionel-messi","tag-mostafa-shobeir","tag-mostafa-ziko","tag-quarter-finals","tag-romero","tag-round-of-16","tag-sports-news","tag-yasser-ibrahim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22698,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22696\/revisions\/22698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}