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Lionel Messi, so often a study in cool detachment, is crying with delight. His missed penalty could have been so costly for Argentina; instead his assist and goal in a four-minute-and-18-second spell hauled his team back level, before Enzo Fernandez sealed the deal in added time. Argentina<\/a> cavort in a mix of glee and relief: number four is still on! Egypt meanwhile stare into the distance in disbelief, having lost a two-goal lead that had been richly deserved. Mo Salah bereft. It won\u2019t make much difference right now, but perhaps later it\u2019ll be reassuring to know that they didn\u2019t throw anything away today: they simply came up against a force of nature with genius in his boots.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>FULL TIME: Argentina 3-2 Egypt<\/p>\n Egypt came so close to one of the great World Cup upsets. Instead Argentina<\/a> completed one of the great World Cup comebacks. Messi in tears of joy!<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 90 min +11: Lautaro Martinez takes the ball to the corner. He wins a throw. Then goes nose to nose with Attia. Egypt so frustrated.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 90 min +9: Hossam Hassan, still irate over the Mac Allister incident, is booked for telling it as he sees it.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 90 min +8: Attia is booked for a clip on Lautaro Martinez.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 90 min +7: If Argentina<\/a> see this out, it\u2019ll be the first time they\u2019ll have come back from two goals down to win at the World Cup.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 90 min +6: The game restarts. Poor Salah looks utterly devastated. Fathy is booked for continuing the protests. Mac Allister did tug Fathy \u2026 but it would have been a terribly soft decision to penalise him.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 90 min +5: Otamendi and Medina come on for Romero and Alvarez, while Zizo replaces Lasheen for Egypt.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 90 min +4: Egypt are fuming. They think Mac Allister pulled Fathy to the ground in his own box just before Argentina<\/a> countered and scored. Shobeir is booked for protesting. A member of their staff races onto the pitch and earns himself a red card.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>GOAL! Argentina 3-2 Egypt (Fernandez 90+2)<\/p>\n Another cross from the right, another header planted into the top-right corner, and Argentina<\/a> have completed the comeback!<\/p>\n Enzo Fernandez plants a header goalwards \u2026 Photograph: Justin Setterfield\/Getty ImagesAnd Argentina have the lead for the first time in the game. Photograph: Omar Aziz\/ReutersScenes. Photograph: Marco Bello\/ReutersShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a014.04 EDT<\/p>\n 90 min +2: The best form of defence for Egypt may be attack. Hany crosses from the right. Marmoush competes for a header, and there are claims Mac Allister handles Fathy to the floor. But that\u2019s not given. Then Argentina<\/a> go up the other end, and \u2026<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a014.00 EDT<\/p>\n 90 min +1: Egypt launch a four on three counter! But Marmoush runs slap-bang into Paredes, whose last-man sliding block saves the day for Argentina!<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 90 min: There will be seven additional minutes.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 89 min: Lautaro Martinez snaffles the ball from Hafez, who hauls him down. A free kick. Martinez briefly considers throwing hands, but thinks better of it. Messi sends the free kick low and hard towards the near post. Mac Allister tries to poke it goalward, but Shobeir blocks and the ball\u2019s cleared. Argentina<\/a> so close to completing a remarkable comeback!<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 87 min: Egypt are missing the out ball to Hassan. They can\u2019t get out of their half at the moment.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 85 min: Messi wasn\u2019t missing from 12 yards that time. An absolute carpe-diem blooter. Four minutes and 18 seconds between the two Argentinian goals.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>GOAL! Argentina 2-2 Egypt (Messi 83)<\/p>\n You can\u2019t keep a good man down! Messi crosses from the right. Egypt don\u2019t deal with it. Lautaro Martinez hooks back from the left. Alvarez cushions it into the path of Messi. The ball sits up, and with little backlift, Messi lashes home! The keeper no chance!<\/p>\n Argentina\u2019s Lionel Messi (right) shoots \u2026 Photograph: Chris Carlson\/APAnd Argentina are level. Photograph: Elsa\/Getty ImagesMessi wheels away in celebration. Photograph: Martin Rickett\/PAShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a013.59 EDT<\/p>\n 82 min: Messi dribbles daintily down the right and dinks infield for Lautaro Martinez, whose downward header from six yards clanks wide right. Big chance. Big miss. Egypt, all of a sudden, are hanging on.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 81 min: Messi and Mac Allister combine down the right to win a corner. Messi trots over to send it in. No obvious sign of panic from the great man \u2026 but his delivery is cleared by Egypt.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 80 min: Egypt respond by replacing the goalscorer Zico with Marmoush.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>GOAL! Argentina 1-2 Egypt (Romero 79)<\/p>\n Messi curls in from the right. Romero, left unmarked, six yards out, forces a header into the right-hand side of the net. Shobeir gets a hand to it, but can\u2019t keep it out. Argentina<\/a> aren\u2019t out yet!<\/p>\n Cristian Romero heads home to get Argentina back in the match. Photograph: Carlos Barr\u00eda\/ReutersShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a013.49 EDT<\/p>\n 78 min: Zico slips Trezeguet into the Argentina<\/a> box down the left. He\u2019s free \u2026 but facing a tight angle. He swishes a fierce drive into the side netting. Argentina on the brink.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 76 min: Trezeguet has come on for the injured Hassan, who will be a big miss for Egypt. Hassan was exciting enough against Australia the other day; he\u2019s been sensational this afternoon!<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 75 min: Gonzalez hooks in from the left. Lautaro Martinez sticks out a leg and diverts the ball harmlessly wide right.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 73 min: The game restarts. Argentina<\/a> have swapped Molina for Montiel. \u201cGod has made it clear he hates VAR,\u201d claims Evan Crocker.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 71 min: \u2026 and that\u2019s drinks. Goodness knows Argentina<\/a> need one. Something perhaps stronger than the \u201ctea, coffee and fresh juices\u201d offered by Egypt.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 69 min: Hassan, Salah and Zico have been immense today \u2026 and that was their reward. What a combo! \u201cI just wonder whether an envy-ridden Cristiano Ronaldo is in a hotel room somewhere sticking pins into a voodoo doll of Leo Messi,\u201d writes Colum Fordham. \u201cNothing else would explain why La Pulga is playing so poorly (by his lofty standards) today.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a>GOAL! Argentina 0-2 Egypt (Zico 67)<\/p>\n Zico scores again, and this time it\u2019ll count! From the Argentinian corner, Salah streaks off on the counter. He drives at Romero, then feeds Hassan on the right. Hassan zips past Molina, reaches the byline, and cuts back for Zico who slams home from six yards! The shock is really on now!<\/p>\n Egypt\u2019s Mostafa Zico prepares to shoot \u2026 Photograph: Omar Aziz\/ReutersAnd fires the ball past Argentina keeper Emiliano Martinez to double Egypt\u2019s lead. Photograph: Buda Mendes\/Getty ImagesZico wheels away in celebration. Photograph: Paul Childs\/ReutersZico and teammates celebrate in front of joyous Egypt fans and downcast Argentina fans. Photograph: Nathan Ray Seebeck\/Imagn Images\/ReutersShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a013.45 EDT<\/p>\n 66 min: De Paul crosses long from the left. Zico, under no pressure, chests behind for a corner. Before it can be taken, Lautaro Martinez and Gonzalez come on for De Paul and Tagliafico.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 64 min: If that doesn\u2019t wake Argentina<\/a> up from their sleepwalking, nothing will. They continue to press Egypt back, but the red shirts hold their shape. \u201cMaybe, if Argentina lose, Fifa will insist on Messi playing for one of the teams in the final? With a few Americans to keep Trump happy?\u201d Shh, David Marriott, for goodness sake, don\u2019t be giving Gianni any ideas.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 62 min: A huge let-off for Argentina<\/a>, who were absolutely shredded on the counter there. But a free kick\u2019s a free kick. That\u2019s got the crowd going, though. Some atmosphere now.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>NO GOAL! Argentina 0-1 Egypt<\/p>\n Ah shame. VAR intervenes. At the start of the move, deep in the Egyptian half, Attia tugged at Lisandro Martinez and stood on his foot. It\u2019s a free kick. The correct decision, but heartbreak for Egypt, who \u201cscored\u201d one of the great counter-attack goals.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a013.27 EDT<\/p>\n GOAL! Argentina 0-2 Egypt (Zico 58)<\/p>\n A man named after a great Brazilian might have just knocked Argentina<\/a> out of the World Cup! Hassan dances his way elegantly down the right. He cuts infield and feeds Salah, who slips the ball into the box for Zico, coming in from the left. Zico gets there ahead of Emi Martinez, and whips past the keeper and into the net! Wow!<\/p>\n Egypt\u2019s Mostafa Zico dinks the ball over Emi Martine and into the net Photograph: Omar Aziz\/ReutersShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a013.31 EDT<\/p>\n 57 min: Tagliafico curls a cross in from the left. That\u2019s easy for Shobeir. \u201cI do love it when an Englishman or woman (it\u2019s never a woman) indulges in some getting ahead of themselves such as, say, saying that England\u2019s path to the final is pre-ordained,\u201d writes Niall Mullen. \u201cEven if tongue-in-cheek it not only throws yet more wood onto the inevitable celtic schadenfreude bonfire but also throws banana peels all along the path they wish to walk.\u201d<\/p>\n