{"id":6149,"date":"2026-07-16T12:50:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T12:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/10.0.0.2\/wordpress\/?p=6149"},"modified":"2026-07-16T12:50:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T12:50:39","slug":"world-cup-2026-argentina-beats-england-2-1-and-joins-spain-in-the-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/16\/world-cup-2026-argentina-beats-england-2-1-and-joins-spain-in-the-final\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026: Argentina beats England 2-1 and joins Spain in the final"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Leading 1-0, Argentina came from behind to beat England 2-1 on Wednesday in Atlanta in the 2026 World Cup semi-final thanks to two assists from Lionel Messi, and will defend their title against Spain, who knocked out France the day before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Leading 1-0, Argentina came from behind to beat England 2-1 on Wednesday in Atlanta in the 2026 World Cup semi-final thanks to two assists from Lionel Messi, and will defend their title against Spain, who knocked out France the day before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">After an electric first half interrupted by fouls, Harry Kane&#8217;s teammates took the lead with a goal from Anthony Gordon (55th minute). Argentina equalized late in the match through Enzo Fernandez (85th minute), assisted by the ever-present Messi, who in stoppage time delivered a pinpoint cross that Lautaro Martinez headed into the English net (90+2).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The Argentinians, reigning world champions, will face European champions Spain on Sunday in the final at MetLife Stadium in New York. The English will play the day before in Miami for the third place match against Les Bleus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leading 1-0, Argentina came from behind to beat England 2-1 on Wednesday in Atlanta in the 2026 World Cup semi-final thanks to two assists from Lionel Messi, and will defend&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6150,"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":[52,55],"tags":[],"coauthors":[57],"class_list":["post-6149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6149","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=6149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6151,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6149\/revisions\/6151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6149"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}