{"id":43501,"date":"2026-07-12T12:51:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T10:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/player-ratings-argentina-3-1-switzerland-messi-the-star-of-the-match-xhaka-the-best-of-the-swiss\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T12:51:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T10:51:03","slug":"player-ratings-argentina-3-1-switzerland-messi-the-star-of-the-match-xhaka-the-best-of-the-swiss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/player-ratings-argentina-3-1-switzerland-messi-the-star-of-the-match-xhaka-the-best-of-the-swiss\/","title":{"rendered":"Player ratings, Argentina 3-1 Switzerland: Messi the star of the match, Xhaka the best of the Swiss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-12-062555.jpg\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;margin-bottom:20px\"><\/p>\n<p>Argentina has secured qualification to the semi-finals of the 2026 World Cup, after defeating Switzerland with a score of 3-1 after extra time, in a match fought until the last minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Alexis Mac Allister, Julian Alvarez and Lautaro Martinez scored for the Argentines, while Dan Ndoye scored the only goal for Switzerland. The Helvetians played with one player less from the 72nd minute, as Breel Embolo was sent off with a second yellow card.<\/p>\n<p>Despite not finding the net, Lionel Messi was the man of the match according to Sofascore, scoring 8.9. The Argentina captain provided an assist and was constantly the engine of Lionel Scaloni&#8217;s attacking actions, reports the telegraph.<\/p>\n<p>Of the winners, Alexis Mac Allister and Julian Alvarez were rated 7.6 after good performances and goals scored.<\/p>\n<p>In Switzerland, the most rated player was Granit Xhaka, who received a 7.4 thanks to his solid performance in midfield and commitment throughout. match.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, the most difficult evening was for Breel Embolo. The Swiss striker was punished with a red card in the second half and was rated 5.9, the lowest of all the players who were active in this match.<\/p>\n<p>Ratings of the players of Argentina and Switzerland<\/p>\n<hr style=\"margin:30px 0\">\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#666\">Source: <strong>prizrenpost<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Argentina has secured qualification to the semi-finals of the 2026 World Cup, after defeating Switzerland with a score of 3-1 after extra time, in a match fought until the last minutes. Alexis Mac Allister, Julian Alvarez and Lautaro Martinez scored for the Argentines, while Dan Ndoye scored the only goal for Switzerland. The Helvetians played [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"views":8,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43503,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43501\/revisions\/43503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}