Hossam Abdelmaguid scored the deciding objective in a shootout, and Egypt gained its debut within the World Cup knockout spherical by beating Australia 4-2 on penalty kicks after a 1-1 draw Friday.
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Australia goalkeeper Mathew Ryan didn’t cease any of Egypt’s 4 photographs after changing starter Patrick Seashore late in further time.
The victory is available in Egypt’s fourth World Cup. Australia is now 0-3 within the knockout spherical.
Egypt will subsequent face both defending champion Argentina or Cape Verde within the spherical of 16 on Tuesday in Atlanta.
Harry Souttar opened the shootout by lacking excessive for Australia, and 18-year-old Lucas Herrington hit the crossbar with the fourth try and arrange Abdelmaguid’s clincher.
Egypt’s different penalty shootout scorers have been Mahmoud Saber, Ramy Rabia and Mohamed Salah, the previous Liverpool star who began regardless of a hamstring damage sustained within the staff’s group finale.
Harry Souttar opened the shootout by lacking excessive for Australia, and 18-year-old Lucas Herrington hit the crossbar with the fourth try and arrange Abdelmaguid’s clincher.
Egypt’s different penalty shootout scorers have been Mahmoud Saber, Ramy Rabia and Mohamed Salah, the previous Liverpool star who began regardless of a hamstring damage sustained within the staff’s group finale.
Jackson Irvine and Awer Mabil scored within the shootout for Australia.
Emam Ashour gave Egypt the lead in regulation by scoring within the thirteenth minute with a header that beat Seashore simply contained in the close to publish. Australia evened the match within the fifty fifth when Egypt defender Mohamed Hany turned the primary participant to attain two personal objectives in the identical World Cup.
The personal objective got here when Aiden O’Neill took a free kick from left of the penalty space and Hany headed the ball previous goalkeeper Mostafa Shoubir for a spot in World Cup infamy. His different personal objective got here in a 1-1 draw with Belgium within the group stage.
Lower than 10 minutes earlier, Hany was down close to the identical spot after colliding with Connor Metcalfe on the Australia midfielder’s header try. Medical personnel tended to Hany with a stretcher ready close by, however he was helped up and stayed on after what gave the impression to be a concussion test.
Australia’s solely scoring in World Cup knockout rounds has been two personal objectives. The Socceroos misplaced to Italy 1-0 in 2006 and misplaced to Argentina 2-1 4 years in the past in Qatar. The objective in opposition to Argentina was an personal objective.
Omar Marmoush had an important likelihood to provide Egypt a two-goal lead within the opening seconds of the second half, however he despatched a shot large.
The late goalkeeper change to the 34-year-old Ryan, for his a hundred and fifth worldwide look, got here regardless of a number of sturdy saves from the 22-year-old Seashore, who was enjoying in solely his sixth sport for the Socceroos.
Seashore made a sprawling save on a header from Rabia within the waning moments of regulation, and seconds later had a a lot simpler cease on Salah’s shot.
Egypt had yet another likelihood earlier than the top of regulation, however Haissem Hassan was turned away by Souttar, who deflected the shot together with his knee.
