{"id":545926,"date":"2026-07-12T13:33:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T13:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/545926\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T13:33:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T13:33:20","slug":"world-cup-alexis-mac-allister-scores-as-argentina-reach-semi-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/545926\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup: Alexis Mac Allister scores as Argentina reach semi-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"World Cup: Alexis Mac Allister scores as Argentina reach semi-finals\" title=\"World Cup: Alexis Mac Allister scores as Argentina reach semi-finals\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Alexis-Mac-Allister-120726_5a54171646873bed7a7c15a83013ef34.webp\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0;border:none;margin:auto;display:block;width:0;height:0;min-width:100%;max-width:100%;min-height:100%;max-height:100%;object-fit:cover\"\/>Published 5 hours ago <\/p>\n<p>By Joe Urquhart<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-hg7nzy\">Alexis Mac Allister scored for Argentina as they defeated Switzerland to book a place in the semi-finals of the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The Liverpool midfielder supplied the reigning champions\u2019 first goal in a 3-1 victory overnight that required extra-time.<\/p>\n<p>Mac Allister headed home from a Lionel Messi corner ball to net in the 10th minute of the contest in Kansas City.<\/p>\n<p>Switzerland equalised in the second half to level through Dan Ndoye. However, they were reduced to 10 men shortly afterwards when Breel Embolo was sent off for a second bookable offence.<\/p>\n<p>With the match level after 90 minutes, Julian Alvarez and Lautaro Martinez then both struck in extra-time to give Argentina the win.<\/p>\n<p>They will now face England on Wednesday evening for a place in the World Cup final.<\/p>\n<p>Published 5 hours ago <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u200c Published 5 hours ago By Joe Urquhart Alexis Mac Allister scored for Argentina as they defeated Switzerland&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[10015,10016,42,5851,10011,10006,10017,10019,10018,1547,10010,10009,5859,10014,43,10007,10012,10008,40,38,41,39,10013],"class_list":["post-545926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-alisson","tag-firmino","tag-headlines","tag-homepage","tag-klopp","tag-lfc","tag-lfc-news","tag-lfctv","tag-lfctv-go","tag-liverpool-fc","tag-liverpool-fc-match","tag-liverpool-fc-news","tag-liverpool-football-club","tag-mane","tag-news","tag-reds","tag-salah","tag-the-reds","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-van-dijk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}