{"id":23688,"date":"2022-11-22T14:51:51","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T14:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/?p=23688"},"modified":"2022-11-22T14:51:51","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T14:51:51","slug":"argentina-lose-to-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/argentina-lose-to-saudi-arabia\/world-cup-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Argentina Lose to Saudi Arabia!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A massive win has been pulled off by Saudi Arabia in the World Cup against Argentina! A massive comeback for them and an incredible chance to go through to the round of 16 now!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia have beaten Messi&#8217;s team Argentina in the opening game of the world cup for them.<\/p>\n<p>Ranked 51st in the world and managing to come back from 1-0 down in the first half due to a penalty given and Messi scored it!<\/p>\n<p>This loss could have made Messi lose his chance at winning the World Cup this year!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EifJZPJJ6AU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Argentina were the favourites to win the World Cup after coming off an impressive 36 game winning streak that involved them winning the 2021 Copa America.<\/p>\n<p>This has changed the way Argentina will play as this is the team that people thought were going to go the distance.<\/p>\n<p>Argentina will now have to beat Poland and Mexico to even stand a chance to get through the world cup.<\/p>\n<p>This has now been made harder for them and Messi will be trying his best to at least make it through due to this being his last world cup!<\/p>\n<p>For more football news, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/\">here<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>For everything Five Minutes Spare, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/\">here<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>For the Five Minutes Spare YouTube channel, Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC4AiJQSc8lzf_b9VCWjSXLA\">here<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Banner and Image Credit: <a class=\"mui-19sk0fy-a-underline-inherit-linkContainer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/g\/Nomi2626\">Nomi2626<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A massive win has been pulled off by Saudi Arabia in the World Cup against Argentina! A massive comeback for them and an incredible chance to go through to the round of 16 now! Saudi Arabia have beaten Messi&#8217;s team Argentina in the opening game of the world cup for them. Ranked 51st in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":23689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2372],"tags":[2358],"class_list":["post-23688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-cup-2022","tag-other-football-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23690,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23688\/revisions\/23690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}