{"id":534401,"date":"2026-07-20T01:08:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T01:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/534401\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T01:08:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T01:08:14","slug":"world-cup-final-chaos-argentina-players-lash-out-after-spain-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/534401\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup final chaos: Argentina players lash out after Spain win"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lionel Scaloni, the Argentina coach, tried to separate the players by dragging Spain defender Garc\u00eda away from the fracas.<\/p>\n

Speaking on BBC, Alan Shearer, the former England captain, described the incident as \u201cterrible\u201d, saying: \u201cParedes threw two or three haymakers into someone\u2019s face. He went for them. There is no place or space for that.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know how much it means to them and we know how much it hurts to lose, but there is a way to lose. Too many times we have seen that from Argentina. The reaction after the final whistle is terrible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Argentina had taken an aggressive approach throughout the match, as they had against England in their bad-tempered semi-final midweek<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Scaloni\u2019s players lunged into challenges throughout the first half, with Alexis Mac Allister and Nicol\u00e1s Tagliafico both fortunate to have avoided yellow cards for lunging tackles in those early exchanges.<\/p>\n

Five Argentina players were booked over the course of the final, which went into extra time after an ultra-defensive showing from Scaloni\u2019s side.<\/p>\n

Argentina had just 35% of possession across the 120 minutes and finished the match with two shots, to Spain\u2019s 20. Neither of Argentina\u2019s efforts was on target.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Daily Telegraph UK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lionel Scaloni, the Argentina coach, tried to separate the players by dragging Spain defender Garc\u00eda away from the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,8018,12413,22973,10542,5506,5904,5830,42,70362,43,3111,10702,105,2029,65633,165,40,38,41,39,38658,6027,377],"class_list":["post-534401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-after","tag-argentina","tag-chaos","tag-counterparts","tag-cup","tag-defeat","tag-final","tag-fought","tag-headlines","tag-lash","tag-news","tag-out","tag-players","tag-punched","tag-spain","tag-spanish","tag-their","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-whistle","tag-win","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534401","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=534401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}