World Cup news today: Live updates as Mohamed Salah shines in Egypt victory

Hello and invited to Sports Mole's unrecorded World Cup 2026 quality blog connected June 22!

The 2nd circular of fixtures successful Groups G and H is present complete, but nary much teams managed to articulation Mexico, the USA and Germany successful the knockout stages with a crippled to spare.

On the 2nd Monday of the 2026 World Cup, the superstar names instrumentality to the tract again, arsenic Lionel Messi's Argentina look Austria earlier Kylian Mbappe's France instrumentality connected Iraq.

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Sunday's circular of World Cup fixtures saw Belgium, Iran, Egypt and New Zealand effort to get disconnected the people successful Group G astatine the 2nd attempt, but lone the Pharaohs succeeded successful posting their archetypal triumph of the Mundial.

Mohamed Salah was the prima of the amusement successful Egypt's 3-1 triumph implicit New Zealand, registering a extremity and assistance arsenic the African federation assumed power of the group, acknowledgment to Belgium and Iran's 0-0 draw earlier successful the day.

Iran were indebted to inspired goalkeeper Alireza Beiranvand, who made 7 saves to support retired a Romelu Lukaku-led Belgian side, who successful crook received small from their all-time starring goalscorer.

However, Spain's prima sanction Lamine Yamal had the desired interaction connected his afloat World Cup debut against Saudi Arabia, opening the scoring successful a 4-0 rout arsenic La Roja stormed to the acme of Group H.

A fewer hours later, tourney debutants Cape Verde earned different historical daze result, holding Uruguay to a 2-2 draw to permission themselves successful 3rd place, lone down the apical 2 connected extremity difference.

Now, attraction turns to Messi and Mbappe's pursuits of history, arsenic the erstwhile needs conscionable 1 extremity successful Argentina vs. Austria to surpass Miroslav Klose and go the all-time starring World Cup goalscorer.

At the aforesaid time, Mbappe volition overtake the Germany icon with a hat-trick successful France vs. Iraq, which precedes Norway vs. Senegal and Jordan vs. Algeria overnight.