{"id":4554,"date":"2026-07-08T10:11:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T10:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/?p=4554"},"modified":"2026-07-08T10:11:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T10:11:38","slug":"messi-inspires-argentinas-stunning-comeback-win-over-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/2026\/07\/08\/messi-inspires-argentinas-stunning-comeback-win-over-egypt\/","title":{"rendered":"Messi Inspires Argentina&#8217;s Stunning Comeback Win Over Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Atlanta: Lionel Messi inspired defending champions Argentina national football team to a remarkable 3-2 comeback victory over Egypt national football team after overturning a two-goal deficit in their FIFA World Cup clash.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Argentina appeared on the brink of elimination as Egypt took a 2-0 lead, with Yasser Ibrahim opening the scoring before Mostafa Zico doubled the advantage in the second half. An earlier goal from Zico had been ruled out following a VAR review.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Egypt goalkeeper Mostafa Shobeir produced an outstanding display, including saving a first-half penalty from Messi. The miss marked Messi&#8217;s fourth failed World Cup penalty and his second penalty miss of the tournament.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With just 11 minutes remaining, Messi delivered a pinpoint cross that Cristian Romero headed home to reduce the deficit. Moments later, Messi levelled the score with a powerful left-footed strike that crashed in off the crossbar.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Deep into stoppage time, Enzo Fern\u00e1ndez completed the dramatic turnaround by heading home the winning goal, sealing one of the tournament&#8217;s most memorable comebacks.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Messi finished the match with one goal and one assist, once again proving decisive as Argentina kept their World Cup title defence alive.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For Egypt, the defeat ended a spirited campaign after coming within minutes of securing one of the biggest upsets of the tournament.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta: Lionel Messi inspired defending champions Argentina national football team to a remarkable 3-2 comeback victory over Egypt national football team after overturning a two-goal deficit in their FIFA World Cup clash. Argentina appeared on the brink of elimination as Egypt took a 2-0 lead, with Yasser Ibrahim opening the scoring before Mostafa Zico doubled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4556,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4554\/revisions\/4556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}