Overview
- Argentina beat Switzerland 3-1 after extra time in Kansas City, with Julián Álvarez scoring a stunning 112th-minute winner and Lautaro Martínez adding a late third to seal the quarter-final victory.
- A VAR review overturned a yellow shown to Leandro Paredes and instead booked Breel Embolo for simulation, giving Embolo a second yellow and reducing Switzerland to 10 men in the 72nd minute.
- England reached the semi-finals the same day after Jude Bellingham scored twice in a 2-1 extra-time win over Norway, setting up a Messi‑vs‑Bellingham semi-final in Atlanta.
- The Argentine Football Federation said recipients received unauthorized emails sent from an institutional account and asked people to disregard unusual messages while IT investigates, with separate reporting alleging a possible compromise of AFA contact data.
- FIFA’s chief refereeing officer Pierluigi Collina publicly defended match officials, and the combination of high-profile VAR interventions and the AFA email incident has raised reputational and governance questions tournament organizers will now face.