{"id":5863,"date":"2026-07-08T12:48:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T12:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/10.0.0.2\/wordpress\/?p=5863"},"modified":"2026-07-08T12:48:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T12:48:20","slug":"world-cup-2026-messi-turns-everything-around-and-mummifies-egypt-sending-argentina-to-the-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/08\/world-cup-2026-messi-turns-everything-around-and-mummifies-egypt-sending-argentina-to-the-quarterfinals\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026: Messi turns everything around and mummifies Egypt, sending Argentina to the quarterfinals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">What would Argentina be without Lionel Messi? Probably knocked out early from the World Cup, if the genius, still scoring and assisting, hadn&#8217;t stepped up to lift La Albiceleste from the brink against Egypt (3-2), who had almost pulled off the perfect feat on Tuesday in Atlanta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">What would Argentina be without Lionel Messi? Probably knocked out early from the World Cup, if the genius, still scoring and assisting, hadn\u2019t stepped up to pull the Albiceleste out of hell against Egypt (3-2), who had almost pulled off the perfect coup on Tuesday in Atlanta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The reigning champions, who somehow found the resources to get through after their scare in the round of 16 against the very modest Cape Verde, which pushed them into extra time, will face Colombia or Switzerland at 1:00 PM in Vancouver (8:00 PM GMT, 10:00 PM French time).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Messi, still Messi, always Messi<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What would Argentina be without Lionel Messi? Probably knocked out early from the World Cup, if the genius, still scoring and assisting, hadn&#8217;t stepped up to lift La Albiceleste from&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_angie_page":false,"content-type":"","_aifi_custom_prompt":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"coauthors":[57],"class_list":["post-5863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5865,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5863\/revisions\/5865"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5863"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}