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On the ropes and staring down the barrel of elimination, Lionel Messi and Argentina mounted one of the greatest comebacks in World Cup history.<\/p>\n
Argentina eliminated Egypt, 3-2, in a late-game surge. After an early goal from Ibrahim in the 15th minute, and a missed penalty by Messi just minutes later, Ziko scored what seemed like an insurance goal in the second half, but it wasn’t enough for the Pharohs.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Messi spearheaded a late-game comeback following the second hydration break. He crafted the first goal for Cristian Romero in the 790th minute and scored the equalizer only four minutes later. Argentina finished the comeback in stoppage time, Lautaro Martinez connecting with Enzo Fernandez for the game-winner.<\/p>\n
For a second consecutive round, Argentina flirted with elimination. The defending champions needed extra time to get past Cape Verde in the round of 32, and now La Albiceleste is onto the World Cup quarterfinals after a wild late-game performance against Egypt to preserve their bid for back-to-back titles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This page may contain affiliate links. If you click and sign up, make a deposit, or place a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":749018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99,84938],"class_list":["post-749017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/749018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}