Argentina vs Switzerland Live, FIFA World Cup 2026: Extra time begins as Messi and Co face 10-man Swiss side
Argentina vs Switzerland Live Score, FIFA World Cup 2026 Match Updates: Switzerland have managed to drag defending champions Argentina to extra time despite being down to 10 men. The Swiss team lost Breel Embolo to a red card just minutes after they had managed to level the scores at 1-1 in the 67th minute of their FIFA World Cup quarter-final against Argentina. Dan Ndoye scored after a phase of dominance for Switzerland. But Swiss joy was short-lived when Embolo was sent off for simulating a foul, which earned him a second yellow card after VAR intervention.
Argentina had carried a 1-0 lead into the second half, thanks to Alexis Mac Allister’s goal. It took Argentina just 10 minutes to open the scoring with Lionel Messi creating the chance for Mac Allister to finish. This is Messi’s second assist of the World Cup (alongside his eight goals). Given how close the Golden Boot race is with France’s Kylian Mbappe, the two assists might prove decisive.
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Argentina vs Switzerland Football Live Score
The final quarter-final of the FIFA World Cup at Kansas City, has defending champions Argentina on one side that boasting a roster with Messi, Lautaro Martínez, and Julián Álvarez. On the other side, Switzerland, a team that has never reached the World Cup semifinals and hasn’t featured in the quarterfinals since hosting the tournament in 1954. The mismatch on paper, however, could be deceiving. Argentina have looked vulnerable throughout the knockout rounds, struggling past Cape Verde in extra time and needing a late rally to edge past Egypt. That has given hope to a Swiss side that knocked out Colombia on penalties to earn this date with the defending champions. “Few talk about the Swiss qualities,” captain Granit Xhaka said. “Tomorrow we will talk on the pitch.”
The winner of Saturday’s clash at Arrowhead Stadium will face England in the semifinals on Wednesday in Atlanta, after the Three Lions defeated Norway 2-1 earlier in the day. Jude Bellingham lit up the show with a brace to send England through.
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Argentina’s head coach Lionel Scaloni kisses Argentina’s Lionel Messi. (FILE photo)
The man that cannot control a traffic. It was Diego Maradona’s brutal assessment of Lionel Scaloni when he was appointed the full-time manager of Argentina in 2018. Argentina had a plethora of glittering names to choose from: the cult figure Marcelo Bielsa, the new-age revolutionary Mauricio Pochettino, the angel of dark arts in black suits, Diego Simeone.
Yet, to resurrect from the post-Moscow World Cup catastrophe, they turned to a largely unknown and unglamorous man. His club journey was scattered in the mid-table clubs of Italy and Spain. He wore his national stripes only seven times. He briefly managed Sevilla and Argentina’s U-20 squad, before joining the backroom staff of Jorge Sampaoli during his catastrophic reign. The federation chose him, reportedly, because he came cheap, and because he was not egoistic; the simplicity of his upbringing in a farming household in Pujato, Santa Fe, showed.
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