First penalty miss… then showed magic in the last minutes! Lionel Messi gave a memorable victory to Argentina

Argentina vs Egypt: football superstar lionel messi (Lionel Messi) The defending champions, led by Argentina, have made it to the quarter-finals of the FIFA World Cup 2026. Argentina was eliminated from the tournament by defeating Egypt 3-2 in the round of 16. This match played at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta was very exciting. At one time it seemed that the Egyptian team would defeat the defending champions and knock them out of the tournament. However, after this, Argentina, captained by Lionel Messi, made a brilliant comeback and changed the course of the match by scoring a goal in the last minutes. Actually, Argentina was behind 0-2 in the last 10 minutes of the match, but then Lionel Messi shows his magic.

How was the thrill of the knockout match?

fifa world cup 2026 (FIFA World Cup 2026) In the knockout match of 2016, Egypt had brought Argentina to the brink of elimination from the tournament. Before the last 10 minutes of the match, Egypt were leading 2-0. Yasir Ibrahim gave Egypt a 1-0 lead by scoring a goal in the 15th minute of the first half. Argentina tried hard in the first half, but they could not break Egypt’s defense.

During this time, Argentina also got a chance to score a penalty goal, but Messi missed converting the penalty into a goal. Seeing this, Messi’s fans were very disappointed. In the second half, once again the Egyptian team took a 2-0 lead. In the 67th minute of the second half, Mostafa Zico scored the second goal for Egypt and brought his team closer to victory.

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Argentina’s exciting comeback

In the last 10 minutes, Argentina made a brilliant comeback and changed the course of the match. Argentina’s Christian Romero scored a goal in the 79th minute to make the score 2-1. Then Lionel Messi showed his magic and scored a goal in the 83rd minute to make the score 2-2. Ultimately, after the end of 90 minutes of play, the score of both the teams became 2-2. Then in injury time, Argentina’s Enzo Fernandez scored a header and gave his team a 3-2 victory. With this victory, Argentina has reached the next round i.e. quarter finals.

Lionel Messi created history

Lionel Messi scored a goal in the knockout against Egypt. Now his total number of goals in this World Cup has increased to 8, due to which he has gone ahead in the race for the Golden Boot. Behind him are Erling Holland and Kylian Mbappe, who have scored 7 goals each. Not only this, Lionel Messi has become the second player in Argentina’s history to score 8 goals in a single World Cup. He has equaled Guillermo Stabile. Let us tell you that Guillermo Stabile had made this record by scoring 8 goals in the 1930 World Cup.

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