{"id":672150,"date":"2026-07-07T10:00:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T14:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=672150"},"modified":"2026-07-07T10:36:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T14:36:00","slug":"argentina-vs-egypt-confirmed-lineups-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/07\/07\/argentina-vs-egypt-confirmed-lineups-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Argentina vs Egypt Confirmed Lineups For July 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These are the Argentina vs Egypt confirmed lineups for their Round of 16 clash in the 2026 World Cup. Two od the big stars collide as Lionel Messi goes head-to-head with Mo Salah in this clash of two of the world&#8217;s biggest stars. The current holders have looked strong all campaign long but they are coming up against a team with the requisite firepower to cause them some problems.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/07\/05\/world-cup-round-of-16-predictions-switzerland-vs-colombia\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">World Cup Round of 16 Predictions Including Switzerland vs Colombia<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Argentina vs Egypt Confirmed Lineups &amp; Team News<\/h2>\n<p><iframe width=\"430\" height=\"335\" style=\"border: 0; overflow: hidden; border-radius: 0; display: block;\" src=\"https:\/\/live-odds.casinokings.com\/embed\/30210861\" scrolling=\"no\" loading=\"lazy\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Argentina Team News<\/h3>\n<p>According to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/sport\/football\/world-cup-2026-injury-latest-jordan-henderson-reece-james-tchouameni-williams-b3009988.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">injury tracker<\/a>, Lionel Scaloni is going to be without two of his squad members as Facundo Medina came off in their win over Cape Verde. The left-back has been a locked on starter and plays a key role in the team&#8217;s setup.<\/p>\n<p>The other issue comes to midfield option Nico Gonzalez who has picked up a small ankle issue and is a doubt for this tie.<\/p>\n<h3>Egypt Team News<\/h3>\n<p>There is a bit of an <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/egypt-predicted-lineup-team-news-054500959.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">injury crisis<\/a> in the back line for the nation, and some worries over Mo Salah who had a muscle strain before playing 120 minutes against Australia. Ahmed Fatouh, Ahmed El Fotouh, Karim Hafez, and Mohamed Abdelmonem are all reportedly going to miss out.<\/p>\n<h3>Argentina World Cup Squad<\/h3>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"max-width: 600px\"><smartframe-embed class=\"smartframe_wp_element\" customer-id=\"b0c95bc04383cef69c6b47df872135cf\" image-id=\"WmOBL8BWKkiT\" style=\"width: 100%; display: inline-flex; max-width: 3497px; aspect-ratio: 3497\/2331;\" ><\/smartframe-embed><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Juan Musso<\/li>\n<li>Geronimo Rulli<\/li>\n<li>Emi Martinez<\/li>\n<li>Marcos Senesi<\/li>\n<li>Nicolas Tagliafico<\/li>\n<li>Gonzalo Montiel<\/li>\n<li>Lisandro Martinez<\/li>\n<li>Cristian Romero<\/li>\n<li>Nicolas Otamendi<\/li>\n<li>Facundo Medina<\/li>\n<li>Nahuel Molina<\/li>\n<li>Leandro Paredes<\/li>\n<li>Rodrigo De Paul<\/li>\n<li>Valentin Barco<\/li>\n<li>Giovani Lo Celso<\/li>\n<li>Ezequiel Palacios<\/li>\n<li>Nico Gonzalez<\/li>\n<li>Alexis Mac Allister<\/li>\n<li>Enzo Fernandez<\/li>\n<li>Julian Alvarez<\/li>\n<li>Lionel Messi<\/li>\n<li>Thiago Almada<\/li>\n<li>Giuliano Simeone<\/li>\n<li>Nico Paz<\/li>\n<li>Jose Manuel Lopez<\/li>\n<li>Lautaro Martinez<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Egypt World Cup Squad<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Mohamed Elshenawy<\/li>\n<li>Mahdy Soliman<\/li>\n<li>Mostafa Shoubir<\/li>\n<li>Mohamaed Alaa<\/li>\n<li>Yasser Ibrahim<\/li>\n<li>Mohamed Hany<\/li>\n<li>Hossam Abdelmaguid<\/li>\n<li>Ramy Rabia<\/li>\n<li>Mohamed Abdelmoneim<\/li>\n<li>Ahmet Fatouh<\/li>\n<li>Karim Hafez<\/li>\n<li>Tarek Alaa<\/li>\n<li>Emam Ashour<\/li>\n<li>Mostafa Zico<\/li>\n<li>Hamdy Fathy<\/li>\n<li>Mohanad Lashin<\/li>\n<li>Nabil Donga<\/li>\n<li>Marawan Attia<\/li>\n<li>Mahmoud Saber<\/li>\n<li>Trezeguet<\/li>\n<li>Hamza Abdelkarim<\/li>\n<li>Mo Salah<\/li>\n<li>Haiseem Hassan<\/li>\n<li>Ibrahim Adel<\/li>\n<li>Omar Marmoush<\/li>\n<li>Zizo<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Argentina Confirmed Lineup<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Emi Martinez<\/li>\n<li>Taglicafico<\/li>\n<li>Lisandro Martinez<\/li>\n<li>Romero<\/li>\n<li>Molina<\/li>\n<li>Paredes<\/li>\n<li>De Paul<\/li>\n<li>Mac Allister<\/li>\n<li>Fernandez<\/li>\n<li>Alvarez<\/li>\n<li>Messi<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Subs:\u00a0<\/strong>Musso, Rulli, Senesi, Montie, OTamendi, Medina, Barco, Lo Celso, Palacios, Nico, Almada, Simeone, Paz, Lopez, Laurato Martinez<\/p>\n<h3>Egypt Confirmed Lineup<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Shoubir<\/li>\n<li>Ibrahim<\/li>\n<li>Hany<\/li>\n<li>Rabia<\/li>\n<li>Hafez<\/li>\n<li>Ashour<\/li>\n<li>Zico<\/li>\n<li>Lashin<\/li>\n<li>Attia<\/li>\n<li>Salah<\/li>\n<li>Hassan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Subs:\u00a0<\/strong>Elshenawy, Soliman, M. Alaa, Abedelmaguid, T, Alaa, Fathy, Donga, Saber, Trezeguet, Abdelkarim, Adel, Marmoush, Zizo<\/p>\n<p><strong>Featured Image Credit<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>IMAGO \/ Agencia-MexSport<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are the Argentina vs Egypt confirmed lineups for their Round of 16 clash in the 2026 World Cup. Two od the big stars collide as Lionel Messi goes head-to-head with Mo Salah in this clash of two of the world&#8217;s biggest stars. The current holders have looked strong all campaign long but they are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":642794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[161,30,1831,2132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-672150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-football","category-news","category-starting-line-up","category-world-cup"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672150"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":672162,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672150\/revisions\/672162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}