{"id":1891564,"date":"2026-07-07T10:58:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T14:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1891564"},"modified":"2026-07-07T15:13:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T19:13:07","slug":"lionel-messi-leads-argentina-to-3-2-comeback-victory-over-egypt-and-spot-in-world-cup-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1891564","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Messi leads Argentina to 3-2 comeback victory over Egypt and spot in World Cup quarterfinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel Messi did it yet again at this year\u2019s World Cup. The Argentina great scored once while inspiring his team to an improbable 3-2 victory over Egypt despite trailing by two goals with only 11 minutes to play. The defending champions will next face either Switzerland or Colombia in quarterfina&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/ap\/5129f-alvarez-one-of-three-changes-for-messi-led-argentina-against-egypt-at-the-world-cup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel Messi did it yet again at this year\u2019s World Cup. The Argentina great scored once while inspiring his team to an improbable 3-2 victory&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1891564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1891564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1891565,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891564\/revisions\/1891565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1891564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1891564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1891564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}