Picture : Lionel Scaloni always unbeaten with Argentina !
World Cup 2026 Statistics – Day 27 (July 7) – Round of 16
Argentina vs Egypt 3-2
*Argentina won a World Cup match after trailing by two goals for the first time in history.
*Argentina is only the second non-European nation to win a World Cup knockout stage match after trailing by a two-goal margin, following Brazil against Sweden (0-2 to 4-2) on 19 June 1938.
*Argentina are the first team to overcome a two-goal deficit in a World Cup knockout match while trailing in the 78th minute and winning within 90 minutes, without extra time.
The only similar precedent: Netherlands in 2014 overcame a deficit of just one goal (coming back from 0-1 to 2-1 against Mexico).
*It was the fastest decisive comeback in World Cup history overall (3 goals in space of 13 minutes and 14 seconds).
*Argentina became the second nation to score at least two goals in 11 consecutive World Cup matches, following Uruguay (1930 to 1954).
*Argentina conceded a first-half goal at a World Cup for the first time under Scaloni.
This hadn’t happened since the 2018 match against France (3-4).
*During the Scaloni era at the World Cup, Argentina had only trailed once before this game, for 37 minutes vs Saudi Arabia in the 2022 edition (from the moment Saudi Arabia made it 2-1 until the end of the match).
*Argentina won 5 consecutive World Cup matches for the 3rd time. Such series were also in 1986 (the last 5) and in 2014 (the first 5).
*Argentina are the first team in World Cup history to beat three African nations in a single edition (also 3-0 vs Algeria and 3-2 vs Cabo Verde).
*It was Argentina’s 500th official match in history.
*Egypt becomes the second African nation to score two goals against a CONMEBOL team in a World Cup knockout stage match, following Cameroon against Colombia (2-1) in 1990.
*Egypt is the nation that has conceded the most penalties (3) in World Cup history without letting in a single one.
*Argentina have been awarded 8 penalties in space of last 12 World Cup matches (7 games and 5 penalties in 2022, 5 games and 3 penalties in 2026).
This is the highest figure for any national team over a span of 12 consecutive matches in the history of the tournament, ahead of:
Spain – 7 (1998 to 2010),
Netherlands – 7 (1938 to 1978).
The team to have been awarded the second-most penalties at the last two World Cups is England (4, twice fewer than Argentina).
*Enzo Fernández scored the 3,000th goal in World Cup history.
*Enzo Fernández’s header was the 10th winning goal scored in the 90th minute or later at the 2026 World Cup, now the most in any single edition.
*Another “Zico” (Egyptian) has scored against Argentina at the World Cup 44 years after the Brazilian Zico did so in 1982 (at Sarriá) in the 2nd group stage.