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Argentina completed the 2026 World Cup semifinal lineup with a 3-1 extra-time victory over ten-man Switzerland at Kansas City Stadium.<\/p>\n
Julian Alvarez broke the deadlock with a spectacular 112th-minute strike before Lautaro Martinez added a third in stoppage time, ending Switzerland\u2019s historic run and setting up a semifinal against England.<\/p>\n
Argentina opened the scoring in the 10th minute when Alexis Mac Allister met Lionel Messi\u2019s corner with a near-post header beyond Gregor Kobel.<\/p>\n
Switzerland recovered from the early setback and equalized through Dan Ndoye in the 67th minute after a quick exchange with Ricardo Rodriguez.<\/p>\n
Their momentum lasted only five minutes. Breel Embolo received a second yellow card after a VAR review determined that he had simulated contact with Leandro Paredes, leaving Switzerland with ten men for the remainder of the contest.<\/p>\n
Switzerland dropped into a compact defensive shape and resisted sustained Argentine pressure through the end of regulation time and the opening period of extra time.<\/p>\n
The resistance finally broke in the 112th minute. Jose Manuel Lopez, introduced two minutes earlier, found Alvarez near the left edge of the penalty area, and the forward curled a right-footed shot into the top corner for his first goal of the tournament.<\/p>\n
Lautaro Martinez then sealed the result in added time at the end of extra time, finishing Argentina\u2019s final attack to make it 3-1 and end Switzerland\u2019s first World Cup quarterfinal appearance since 1954.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-07-12T03:45:01+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Kansas City Argentina completed the 2026 World Cup…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[21383,50399,1979,41,17],"class_list":["post-102238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-switzerland","tag-2026-world-cup","tag-argentina-end-swiss-dream-to-complete-world-cup-semi-finals","tag-breaking","tag-swiss","tag-switzerland"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116907859532105443","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102238","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=102238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}