{"id":121224,"date":"2026-07-04T07:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T07:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/?p=121224"},"modified":"2026-07-05T05:29:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T05:29:51","slug":"121224-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/121224-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Messi scores yet another wonder, Egypt scores another, Colombia rejoices."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s1\">ROME \u2013 The World Cup is increasingly in the name of <strong>Lionel Mess<\/strong>i. It was the Argentine champion who opened the scoring in the hard-fought match against Cape Verde, which, in its own way, made history despite being eliminated. Messi scored his seventh goal in four games, collecting a long ball into the box from Lisandro Martinez and controlling the ball with a masterful touch before placing it past the Cape Verdean goalkeeper. The Argentine ace&#039;s opening goal, equaling his tally for the 2022 tournament in Qatar, was answered by Deroy Duarte, who collected a cross from Ryan Mendes and placed the ball past Martinez. Vozinha then made a decisive save from Messi&#039;s free kick, sending the match into extra time. At the start of extra time, Lisandro Martinez restored the lead for the Albiceleste, who were then equalized by a stunning curling shot into the top corner from left-back Sidny Lopes Cabral. The Blue Sharks&#039; dream of a penalty shootout was dashed when, following a Messi corner, Romero&#039;s header deflected by a defender made it 3-2, allowing Argentina to advance to the round of 16. There, they will face Egypt, who won<\/span><span class=\"s2\">o <\/span><span class=\"s1\">on penalties against Australia after a hard-fought match. The Pharaohs,<\/span> <span class=\"s1\">Leading in the first quarter of an hour with a header from Ashour, they put Australia back in the game with an own goal from Hany, the Egyptian defender&#039;s second of this World Cup, settling the penalty shootout. Australia&#039;s two errors contrasted with Egypt&#039;s four conversions, including a chip from Salah. For the first time in their history, Egypt has reached the round of 16 at a World Cup. Colombia, meanwhile, needed only one goal to defeat Ghana and book a round of 16 match against Switzerland.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROMA &#8211; Coppa del Mondo sempre pi\u00f9 nel segno di Lionel Messi. E\u2019 stato il campione argentino ad aprire le marcature nella sofferta partita con Capo Verde, che a modo suo ha scritto una pagina memorabile pure venendo eliminata. Messi ha segnato la settima rete in quattro partite, raccogliendo un lungo lancio in area di [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":121225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sb_editor_width":"","h5ap_radio_sources":[],"footnotes":"","_ppma_block_editor_authors":""},"categories":[35,693],"tags":[1426,1018,1424,1425,1428,1014,1427,1108,1040,1104,1429],"ppma_author":[814],"class_list":["post-121224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-calcio","category-in-primo-piano","tag-deroy-duarte","tag-lionel-messi","tag-lisandro-martinez","tag-lopes-cabral","tag-mohamed-salah","tag-nazionale-di-calcio-argentina","tag-nazionale-di-calcio-aus","tag-nazionale-di-calcio-capo-verde","tag-nazionale-di-calcio-colombia","tag-nazionale-di-calcio-egitto","tag-nazionale-di-calcio-ghana"],"relative_dates":{"created":"3 months ago","modified":"3 months ago"},"authors":[{"term_id":814,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"sorrentino","display_name":"Eugenio Sorrentino","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-30-alle-09.16.20.png","url2x":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-30-alle-09.16.20.png"},"first_name":"Eugenio","last_name":"Sorrentino","user_url":"","author_category":"0","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121224"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121278,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121224\/revisions\/121278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121224"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=121224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}