{"id":100856,"date":"2026-07-10T00:51:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T00:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/100856\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T00:51:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T00:51:13","slug":"world-cup-news-argentina-receive-cristian-romero-injury-update-ahead-of-switzerland-quarter-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/100856\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup news: Argentina receive Cristian Romero injury update ahead of Switzerland quarter-final"},"content":{"rendered":"

Argentina<\/a> defender Cristian Romero<\/a> should be fit to start Saturday’s World Cup quarter-final against Switzerland<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Romero missed the final six games of Tottenham’s Premier League season before returning to action in Argentina’s warm-up games before the World Cup.<\/p>\n

The centre-back started the first two group games, but was not risked against Jordan after being forced off with an injury in the 2-0 win over Austria on matchday two.<\/p>\n

Romero returned to the starting lineup for the dramatic extra-time win over Cape Verde in the Round of 32<\/a>, and then retained his place for the comeback win over Egypt<\/a> in the last 16.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 Imago \/ Crystal Pix<\/p>\n

Argentina receive positive Romero injury update<\/p>\n

The 28-year-old found the net in the 79th minute to start Argentina’s fightback from two goals down, but he was withdrawn in stoppage time with an apparent physical issue.<\/p>\n

According to El Dia<\/a>, subsequent tests have ruled out any concerning injury, confirming that Romero has just suffered with cramp in his left leg.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As a result, Romero should be ready to feature in the starting lineup for the quarter-final clash with Switzerland in Kansas City.<\/p>\n

Romero is expected to resume his central defensive partnership with Manchester United’s Lisandro Martinez.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 Imago \/ SOPA Images<\/p>\n

Scaloni to make left-back decision<\/p>\n

While Lionel Scaloni<\/a> is unlikely to make any changes in central defence, he will be considering whether to stick with Nicolas Tagliafico at left-back.<\/p>\n

Nicolas Tagliafico got the nod over Facundo Medina for the last-16 tie, which represented just his second start of the 2026 World Cup.<\/p>\n

However, Tagliafico was replaced by Atletico Madrid’s Nico Gonzalez midway through the second period in Atlanta.<\/p>\n

Scaloni will need to decide whether to stick with Tagliafico, opt for the attacking left-back option in Gonzalez or revert to Medina, who started\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Argentina defender Cristian Romero should be fit to start Saturday’s World Cup quarter-final against Switzerland. Romero missed the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[88,91,81,83,86,90,87,89,84,82,93,17,92,85],"class_list":["post-100856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-switzerland","tag-cycling","tag-epl","tag-football","tag-formula-1","tag-golf","tag-nfl","tag-olympics","tag-premier-league","tag-rugby","tag-sport","tag-sports-mole","tag-switzerland","tag-teams","tag-tennis"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116892944708872993","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}