{"id":508787,"date":"2026-07-04T01:31:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T01:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/508787\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T01:31:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T01:31:16","slug":"heartbreak-as-australia-knocked-out-of-world-cup-by-egypt-on-penalties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/508787\/","title":{"rendered":"Heartbreak as Australia knocked out of World Cup by Egypt on penalties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">Hossam Abdelmaguid scored the clinching goal in a shootout, and Egypt won its debut in the World Cup knockout round by beating Australia 4-2 on penalty kicks after a 1-1 draw Saturday (NZT). <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Australia goalkeeper Mathew Ryan didn&#8217;t stop any of Egypt&#8217;s four shots after replacing starter Patrick Beach late in extra time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvnz.co.nz\/player\/newsclip\/mo-salah-scores-in-shootout-as-aussie-defender-blazes-over\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mo Salah scores in shootout as Aussie defender blazes over &#8211; watch on TVNZ+<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The victory comes in Egypt&#8217;s fourth World Cup. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/06\/14\/australia-spoils-turkiyes-return-to-the-world-cup-with-a-2-0-victory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Australia<\/a> is now 0-3 in the knockout round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Egypt will next face either <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/06\/24\/experts-on-how-messi-now-39-stays-skilled-and-fit\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">defending champion Argentina<\/a> or Cape Verde in the round of 16 on Wednesday in Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Harry Soutar opened the shootout by missing high for Australia, and 18-year-old Lucas Herrington hit the crossbar with the fourth attempt to set up Abdelmaguid\u2019s clincher.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/egypt-players-react-during-a-penalty-shootout-against-austra-4J2HVNPI3NAUDKCAFPL76R55GA.jpg\" alt=\"Egypt players react during a penalty shootout against Australia\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-hi5x8q-0 cWTYyG image-metadata\">Egypt players react during a penalty shootout against Australia (Source: Associated Press)<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Egypt\u2019s other penalty shootout scorers were Mahmoud Saber, Ramy Rabia and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/06\/23\/sharp-mo-salah-praises-all-whites-after-denting-their-world-cup-hopes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mohamed Salah<\/a>, the former Liverpool star who started despite a hamstring injury sustained in the group finale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Jackson Irvine and Awer Mabil scored in the shootout for Australia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Emam Ashour gave Egypt the lead in regulation by scoring in the 13th minute. Australia evened the match in the 55th when Egypt defender Mohamed Hany became the first player to score two own-goals in the same World Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Watch all matches at the World Cup with an event pass on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvnz.co.nz\/sport\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TVNZ+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hossam Abdelmaguid scored the clinching goal in a shootout, and Egypt won its debut in the World Cup&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2966,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-508787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-fifa-world-cup","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}