Argentina vs Egypt Key Stats: FIFA World Cup 2026

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• Argentina have won both meetings between the teams. They recorded a 6-0 victory in the semi-finals of the 1928 Men’s Olympic Football Tournament and triumphed 2-0 in a March 2008 friendly in Cairo.
• Argentina are unbeaten in their last ten FIFA World Cup matches (W8 D2), equalling their best-ever sequence.
• Argentina have won eight successive FIFA World Cup matches against African sides. They were ahead at half-time in the last six of those encounters.
• Argentina have won eight of their last ten knockout matches at the World Cup.
• Argentina have played extra time at the World Cup a record-equalling 12 times (tied with Germany), prevailing in ten of those encounters.
• Argentina have opened the scoring in all their four World Cup matches in 2026 and have led at half-time each encounter also.
• Against Cabo Verde, Lionel Messi became the first player to reach the milestone of 30 appearances in FIFA World Cup history and also the first to 20 goals.
• Lionel Messi has scored in a record-extending eight successive fixtures at the FIFA World Cup.
• Lionel Messi has scored in five successive knockout-round matches dating back to 2022.
• Egypt’s only World Cup match against a South American team is a 1-0 defeat to Uruguay in the 2018 group stage.
• The penalty shoot-out victory over Australia was Egypt’s first success in a World Cup knockout match.
• Egypt are now on a four-match unbeaten run at the World Cup (W1 D3), which is their longest such streak at the tournament.
• Egypt have now opened the scoring in the first half in four of their last five World Cup encounters.
• Emam Ashour has now netted two goals at the FIFA World Cup. Only Mohamed Salah has scored more for Egypt in tournament history, with three.
• Trézéguet could make his 100th international appearance for Egypt.
• Alexis Mac Allister (Argentina) and Mohamed Salah (Egypt) played at Liverpool together from 2023-26, winning the Premier League title in 2024/25.
• Argentina goalkeeper Emiliano Martínez was an Aston Villa team-mate of Egypt forward Trézéguet in 2020/21.
• Two of Mohamed Salah’s 68 international goals have come against South American opposition – both in friendly defeats against Chile (1-2 in Madrid in February 2013; 2-3 in Santiago in May 2014).
• Lionel Messi has scored seven goals at the FIFA World Cup against African teams, including a hat-trick in Argentina’s opening 3-0 win vs Algeria at this tournament, and the opener in the round of 32 victory against Cabo Verde.