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Egypt players react during a penalty shootout against Australia for the World Cup round of 32 soccer match in Arlington, Texas, near Dallas, Friday, July 3, 2026.<\/p>\n
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Australia’s Harry Souttar reacts after misses a penalty during a shootout at the World Cup round of 32 soccer match between Australia and Egypt in Arlington, Texas, near Dallas, Tuesday, Friday, July 3, 2026.<\/p>\n
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Egypt’s Hossam Abdelmaguid (4) celebrates after scoring the winning penalty during World Cup round of 32 soccer match between Australia and Egypt in Arlington, Texas, near Dallas, Tuesday, Friday, July 3, 2026.<\/p>\n
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Egypt’s Mohamed Salah reacts after scoring during a penalty shootout against Australia for the World Cup round of 32 soccer match in Arlington, Texas, near Dallas, Friday, July 3, 2026.<\/p>\n
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ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 No matter what Mohamed Salah decides about his future with Egyptian soccer \u2014 more World Cups or not \u2014 the star striker can say he was the captain for the country’s first victory in the knockout round.<\/p>\n
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Hossam Abdelmaguid scored the deciding goal in a shootout, and Egypt won its debut in the elimination round of the World Cup by beating Australia 4-2 on penalty kicks after a 1-1 draw Friday.<\/p>\n
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Australia goalkeeper Mathew Ryan didn’t stop any of Egypt’s four shots after replacing starter Patrick Beach late in extra time.<\/p>\n
The victory comes in Egypt’s fourth World Cup, the first one with an expanded field of 48. Australia is now 0-3 in the knockout round.<\/p>\n
Egypt will next face either defending champion Argentina or Cape Verde in the round of 16 on Tuesday in Atlanta.<\/p>\n
\u201cMe feeling today is that it’s incredible,\u201d said Salah, the 34-year-old former Liverpool player who is one behind national team coach Hossam Hassan’s Egyptian record of 69 international goals. \u201cI always like seeing the boys happy and enjoying the moment. Nothing can match that. So today was one of the best days of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n Harry Souttar 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 for the Pharoahs.<\/p>\n The 25-year-old Abdelmaguid, who doesn’t have an international goal in 15 appearances, went low left as Ryan dived to the defender’s right, setting off a raucous celebration among 70,244 fans at the sold-out home of the Dallas Cowboys, plenty of them wearing Egyptian red.<\/p>\n Egypt didn’t even have a victory in the World Cup before beating New Zealand 3-1 in the group stage less than two weeks ago.<\/p>\n \u201cI was only thinking about the Egyptian fans,\u201d Hassan said through a translator. \u201cDuring the entire time and during the penalty shootout, I was just praying, \u2018God, please make the Egyptian people happy.\u2019 Even before the penalty shootout, to be honest.\u201d<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n Egypt\u2019s other penalty shootout scorers were Mahmoud Saber, Ramy Rabia and Salah, who started and played every minute of regulation and extra time despite a hamstring injury sustained in the team’s group finale.<\/p>\n Jackson Irvine and Awer Mabil scored in the shootout for Australia.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen I went to the players and talked to them, I wanted to take some pressure off,\u201d Hassan said. \u201cDo not look at the pressure. Just let everything out, don\u2019t think about anything. Think about your penalty kick. Don\u2019t even think about the goalkeeper. Just think about your kick.\u201d<\/p>\n Emam Ashour gave Egypt the lead in regulation by scoring in the 13th minute with a header that beat Beach just inside the near post. 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 Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n The own-goal came when Aiden O\u2019Neill took a free kick from left of the penalty area and Hany headed the ball past goalkeeper Mostafa Shoubir for a spot in World Cup infamy. His other own-goal came in a 1-1 draw with Belgium in the group stage.<\/p>\n Less than 10 minutes earlier, Hany was down near the same spot after colliding with Connor Metcalfe on the Australia midfielder\u2019s header attempt. Medical personnel tended to Hany with a stretcher waiting nearby, but he was helped up and stayed on after what appeared to be a concussion check.<\/p>\n Australia\u2019s only scoring in World Cup knockout rounds has been two own-goals. The Socceroos lost to Italy 1-0 in 2006 and lost to Argentina 2-1 four years ago in Qatar. The goal against Argentina was an own-goal.<\/p>\n \u201cIt hurts when you get that close,\u201d Australia coach Tony Popovic said. \u201cUnfortunately, we bow out in a penalty shootout, so it\u2019s difficult to take right now.\u201d<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n Omar Marmoush had a great chance to give Egypt a two-goal lead in the opening seconds of the second half, but he sent a shot wide.<\/p>\n The late goalkeeper switch to the 34-year-old Ryan, for his 105th international appearance, came despite several strong saves from the 22-year-old Beach, who was playing in only his sixth game for the Socceroos.<\/p>\n Beach made a sprawling save on a header from Rabia in the waning moments of regulation, and seconds later had a much easier stop on Salah\u2019s shot.<\/p>\n Egypt had one more chance before the end of regulation, but Haissem Hassan was turned away by Souttar, who deflected the shot with his knee.<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n See more of AP\u2019s World Cup coverage here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Egypt players react during a penalty shootout against Australia for the World Cup round of 32 soccer match…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[127984,40502,150,152,151,127964,127990,127987,127489,127988,127986,28884,127982,127985,127976,127965,127918,127983,127989,23681,202,127975,196,88710,42094,942,88711,128021],"class_list":["post-360536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-aiden-oneill","tag-argentina","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-australia-egypt-world-cup-score","tag-awer-mabil","tag-connor-metcalfe","tag-egypt","tag-haissem-hassan","tag-harry-souttar","tag-jackson-irvine","tag-lucas-herrington","tag-mahmoud-saber","tag-mathew-ryan","tag-mohamed-hany","tag-mohamed-salah","tag-mostafa-shoubir","tag-omar-marmoush","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-patrick-beach","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-32554-ap-online-soccer-game-stories","tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","tag-product-40815-ap-texas-sports-only","tag-product-42059-world-cup-text","tag-tony-popovic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>
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