Argentina 3 - 1 Switzerland Argentina scorers: Alexis Mac Allister (10'), Julián Álvarez (112'), Lautaro Martínez (120+1') Switzerland scorers: Dan Ndoye (67') Venue: Arrowhead Stadium Kansas City Stadium, Kansas City, United States Referee: João Pinherio (Portugal) Argentina: Starting XI Notes Subs Notes Emiliano Martínez Juan Musso Nahuel Molina 85' Gerónimo Rulli Cristian Romero 106' Marcos Senesi Lisandro Martínez Gonzalo Montiel 85' Nicolás Tagliafico 78' Nicolás Otamendi 106' Leandro Paredes 110' Facundo Medina Rodrigo De Paul 85' Valentín Barco Alexis Mac Allister 10' Giovani Lo Celso Enzo Fernández 91' Exequiel Palacios Lionel Messi Nicolás González 78' Julián Álvarez 112' Thiago Almada 91' Giuliano Simeone Nico Paz José Manuel López 110' 114' Lautaro Martínez 85' 99' 120+1' Manager: Lionel Scaloni (Argentina) Switzerland: Starting XI Notes Subs Notes Gregor Kobel Yvon Mvogo Denis Zakaria 96' Marvin Keller Nico Elvedi Eray Cömert 90+5' Manuel Akanji Aurèle Amenda Ricardo Rodríguez 90+5' Luca Jaquez Remo Freuler 115' Miro Muheim 86' Granit Xhaka Silvan Widmer 86' Fabian Rieder 86' Ardon Jashari 96' Djibril Sow 86' Michel Aebischer Dan Ndoye 67' 86' Christian Fassnacht Breel Embolo 44' 70' Rubén Vargas 115' Noah Okafor Zeki Amdouni 86' Cédric Itten Manager: Murat Yakin (Switzerland) MATCH EVENTS 1': We're off! 7': Xhaka launches a shot into the sky. 9': Mac Allister with the shot! Deflects off Elvedi's back for a corner. 10': GOAL ARGENTINA!!! The corner comes in from Messi and Alexis Mac Allister gets up high and glances the header into the far side! 20': Sow with the shot! But right at Martínez for an easy save. 32': Embolo's in on goal!! But Martínez is off his line to smother the shot! Very well-timed to get the ball there. 43': Switzerland wins a free kick just outside the left side of the box but Freuler blasts it across goal to no one. 44': Breel Embolo comes flying in and sweeps out Paredes's leg HT Argentina 1-0 Switzerland Swiss gotta get something going here if they're gonna be the ones to end Messi's historic run. 46': We're back! 50': Molina tries to fire from an angle to the far side and is well wide. 50': Argentina carved open! Ndoye gets the cross and fires but it's blocked by a scrambling Lisandro Martínez! Flag goes up anyway but it would have been tight on VAR. 56': Uh-oh. Someone's hurt. It's Paredes, looks like he got caught by Ndoye. Looks like he's trying to walk it off. 60': Embolo puts in a floating header, Emiliano catches it at full stretch even though he probably didn't have to do that. 65': SAVE!! Ndoye with the glancing header!!! Pushed away by Martínez! 66': SAVE!!! Xhaka fires from outside the box to the bottom right corner, Martínez dives again to make the stop, spills it a little but there's no one there to keep him from jumping on the rebound. 67': GOAL SWITZERLAND!!! They've finally leveled it! It's Dan Ndoye who runs down the left to get the incisive pass and slots it in bottom far corner! 69': Leandro Paredes into the book after catching Embolo's trailing leg. Or wait... did he??? 70': VAR REVERSES IT!! It's a second yellow for Breel Embolo for diving!! 78': Argentina substitution: Nicolás González on for Nicolás Tagliafico 85': Ball played in behind for Messi! Messi chests it down and fires but Kobel's off his line to smother it!! Flag goes up anyway but would have been very tihgt. 85': Argentina double sub: Gonzalo Montiel and Lautaro Martínez on for Nahuel Molina and Rodrigo De Paul 86': Switzerland triple sub: Silvan Widmer, Zeki Amdouni and Miro Muheim on for Djibril Sow, Dan Ndoye and Fabian Rieder 90+2': Messi drops his shoulder and shoots through traffic!! Kobel flat-footed! But it's sailing just wide! 90+3': González gets forced wide by Widmer and his shot flies high wide of the near post. 90+5': Switzerland substitution: Eray Cömert on for Ricardo Rodríguez 90+8': SAVE! A scissor kick through traffic from Lisandro Martínez but Kobel denies it! FT Argentina 1-1 Switzerland We're going to extra time! Can ten-man Switzerland hold on?? 91': Argentina substitution: Thiago Almada on for Enzo Fernández 91': We're back! 94': Almada shoots, another shot by Argentina that doesn't beat Kobel, easy save. 95': Almada with a rocket!!! Lot of people thought it went in but it only hit the outside of the net. 96': Switzerland substitution: Ardon Jashari on for Denis Zakaria 98': Lautaro Martínez with a needless foul on Akanji 99': Xhaka tries a shot from distance, puts it way over 105': Jashari tries from like thirty or forty yards, doesn't hit the target 106': Argentina substitution: Nicolás Otamendi on for Cristian Romero 110': Argentina substitution: José Manuel López on for Leandro Paredes 112': SAVE! Messi denied by Kobel! 112': GOAL ARGENTINA!! Julián Álvarez might just have won it!! A perfect shot, perfectly into the top corner, Kobel had no chance!! 114': José Manuel López got a card in there somewhere 115': Switzerland substitution: Rubén Vargas on for Remo Freuler 120+1': GOAL ARGENTINA!!! They launch the counter, Kobel smothers the first attempt from Almada but the rebound falls to Lautaro Martínez who pokes it into the open net! 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