Argentina 3-1 Switzerland player ratings: Messi pulls strings, Alvarez saves Argentina in extra time

Argentina defeated Switzerland 3-1 connected Saturday successful the quarter-finals of the 2026 World Cup successful Kansas City, with the lucifer requiring other clip to settle.

Alexis Mac Allister and Dan Ndoye scored successful mean time, earlier Julian Alvarez and Lautaro Martinez sealed the effect successful the further 30 minutes.

Lionel Messi maintained his singular grounds of contributing to a extremity successful each Argentina lucifer astatine this tournament, and aft an exhausting nighttime produced an Alvarez thunderbolt to transportation the reigning champions into the last four.

Argentina subordinate ratings

GOALKEEPER

Emiliano Martinez — 7
Produced respective beardown saves during Switzerland's periods of unit and commanded his country with authorization throughout. Beaten lone by a one-on-one concern helium could not prevent.

DEFENCE

Nahuel Molina — 5.5

Cristian Romero — 5.5

Lisandro Martinez — 6.5

Nicolas Tagliafico — 5

MIDFIELD

Leandro Paredes — 6.5
Deployed arsenic the deepest midfielder, helium worked hard to organise Argentina's build-up play adjacent during the passages erstwhile Switzerland controlled possession. Was progressive successful some incidents that led straight to Embolo's reddish card.

Enzo Fernandez — 4.5
A mediocre show from the Chelsea midfielder. Despite completing a precocious measurement of passes, helium contributed small to the instauration of clear-cut chances and was practically absent defensively.

Rodrigo de Paul — 5

Alexis Mac Allister — 6.5
Headed location the opening extremity and grew into the lucifer arsenic Argentina's astir progressive beingness successful midfield, delivering much successful the 2nd fractional than helium had successful an different quiescent tournament. Operated arsenic the driving unit successful the Argentine diamond.

ATTACK

Julian Alvarez — 6.5
From a frustrating 110 minutes to the infinitesimal of the nighttime — an unstoppable extra-time onslaught from extracurricular the country that each but confirmed Argentina's spot successful the semi-finals.

Lionel Messi — 8
Delivered the assistance for Mac Allister's opener and remained the focal constituent of Argentina's originative play throughout, covering crushed astatine his ain gait earlier accelerating erstwhile it mattered and uncovering the passes that allowed his broadside to progress.

Substitutes
Nico Gonzalez — 5.5 | Gonzalo Montiel — 5 | Lautaro Martinez — 7 | Thiago Almada — 6.5 | Flaco Lopez — 6

Switzerland subordinate ratings

GOALKEEPER

Gregor Kobel — 7
An fantabulous show against Colombia successful the circular of 16, but a quieter evening here. With Argentina managing lone 2 shots connected people successful the archetypal 90 minutes and the archetypal of those going in, his opportunities to power the lucifer were constricted earlier other time.

DEFENCE

Denis Zakaria — 6

Manuel Akanji — 6.5

Nico Elvedi — 7

Ricardo Rodriguez — 7.5
Solid passim defensively and grew into the lucifer arsenic it progressed, pushing guardant much often connected the near flank successful the 2nd half. Delivered the assistance for Ndoye's equaliser.

MIDFIELD

Remo Freuler — 5.5

Granit Xhaka — 7
The fulcrum of Swiss creativity during their periods of possession, Xhaka directed traffic, demanded the shot and worked tirelessly to find space. Was tracked tightly by Alvarez for overmuch of the evening. Played the walk that opened up the onslaught instantly earlier Ndoye's goal.

Fabian Rieder — 5

ATTACK

Djibril Sow — 6

Breel Embolo — 3
Had 1 genuinely unsafe tally done connected extremity that Dibu Martinez dealt with, and caused the Argentine defence problems successful the air, but undid immoderate affirmative publication with an unnecessarily hard foul aboriginal successful the lucifer and a baffling simulation successful the 2nd fractional that earned a consecutive reddish paper and efficaciously ended Switzerland's hopes.

Dan Ndoye — 7.5
Switzerland's astir unsafe player, combining pace, directness and adjacent power to origin Argentina problems connected the left. His operation play produced the equaliser. Drifted into much cardinal areas aft the archetypal fractional earlier fading pursuing his substitution.

Substitutes
Miro Muheim — 5 | Silvan Widmer — 5.5 | Eray Comert — 5 | Zeki Amdouni — 5 | Ardon Jashari — 5.5 | Ruben Vargas — N/A