The Argentine national team qualified for the World Cup quarterfinals, after the exciting victory against Egypt, in the round of 16 match.
The Argentine national team won against Egypt, with a score of 3-2, in the match that was held this evening at Mercedes-Benz Stadium, in the round of 16 of the 2026 World Cup tournament.
The Egypt and Argentina match witnessed some historical numbers.
And the numbers came as follows:
- Lionel Messi is the first player in World Cup history to miss two penalty kicks in one edition.
- Messi became the player with the most missed penalty shootouts in the World Cup (4).
- Lionel Messi is the first player in the history of the FIFA World Cup to score in six consecutive matches in the knockout stages.
- Argentina was behind in the 78th minute, which is the longest period any team has been behind by two goals or more in a World Cup match for football, then came back and won without resorting to extra time (3-2).
- Lionel Messi scored eight goals in the 2026 World Cup, which is the highest number of goals scored by a player in the first five matches of his team in one edition since German Gerd Müller scored ten goals in 1970.
- Enzo Fernández's header goal was the tenth decisive goal scored in the 90th minute of the 2026 World Cup, and it is now the record in any single edition.
- This is the first time the Argentine national team has been behind in a World Cup match since its opening match in 2022 against Saudi Arabia, but it had not been behind in any of its previous 10 matches in the tournament before today's match.
- Egypt became the second African country to score two goals against a team from the South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL) in the knockout stage of the World Cup, after Cameroon's match against Colombia in 1990.
- Egypt is the country against which the largest number of penalty kicks (3) have been awarded in World Cup history without receiving any penalty kick.
- Egypt scored a goal in a round of 16 World Cup match for the first time since 1934 against Hungary.
