{"id":146002,"date":"2026-07-07T19:02:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T19:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/heartbreak-for-egypt-as-argentina-snatches-world-cup-quarter-final-ticket\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T19:02:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T19:02:44","slug":"heartbreak-for-egypt-as-argentina-snatches-world-cup-quarter-final-ticket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/heartbreak-for-egypt-as-argentina-snatches-world-cup-quarter-final-ticket\/","title":{"rendered":"Heartbreak for Egypt as Argentina snatches World Cup quarter final ticket \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Holders Argentina survived huge scare to qualify for the quarter finals of the ongoing\u00a0 FIFA World Cup after defeating Egypt 3-2 in a pulsating round of 16 clash at Atlanta Stadium,USA.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Egypt surrendered a 2-0 lead with 10 minutes to go as the record Africa champions exited the championship albeit reaching the knock out round for the first time in their World Cup history .<\/p>\n<p>Egypt\u00a0 grabbed the lead through Yasser Ibrahim in the 15th minute but Argentina had a chance to equalize but their captain and leading World Cup top scorer Lionel Messi missed his penalty.<\/p>\n<p>Egypt added a second in the second half through Mostafa Ziko minutes after Egypt\u2019s another goal had been disallowed by French referee Fran\u00e7ois Letexier, a harsh decision that took the winds off the Egyptian sails.<\/p>\n<p>A relentless Argentina pulled one back through Cristian Romero with 12 minutes to go while Messi levelled the scores with fierce shot from the edge of the box.<\/p>\n<p>Argentina won it in added time with Enzo Fernandez heading home\u00a0 to claim 3-2 win and qualify for the quarters and will meet either Colombia and Switzerland in the quarter finals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>World Cup Quarter Finals<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>France Vs Miorocco-<strong>July 9th<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Spain Vs Belgium-<strong>July 10th<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Norway Vs England-<strong>July 10th<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/heartbreak-for-egypt-as-argentina-snatches-world-cup-quarter-final-ticket\/\">Heartbreak for Egypt as Argentina snatches World Cup quarter final ticket \u00a0<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/\">KBC Digital<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holders Argentina survived huge scare to qualify for the quarter finals of the ongoing\u00a0 FIFA World Cup after defeating Egypt 3-2 in a pulsating round of 16 clash at Atlanta Stadium,USA. Egypt surrendered a 2-0 lead with 10 minutes to go as the record Africa champions exited the championship albeit reaching the knock out round [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}