{"id":40204,"date":"2024-07-05T10:04:26","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T10:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/copa-america-argentina-coach-speaks-out-on-messis-penalty-miss\/"},"modified":"2024-07-05T10:04:26","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T10:04:26","slug":"copa-america-argentina-coach-speaks-out-on-messis-penalty-miss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/copa-america-argentina-coach-speaks-out-on-messis-penalty-miss\/","title":{"rendered":"Copa America: Argentina coach, speaks out on Messi\u2019s penalty miss"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Argentina manager, Lionel Scaloni has commented on captain Lionel Messi\u2019s penalty miss against Ecuador at Copa America 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Messi missed his penalty during La Albiceleste\u2019s Copa America 2024 quarter-final victory against Ecuador on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Scaloni\u2019s side won 4-2 on penalties after the match had ended in a 1-1 draw after 120 minutes, thanks to goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez, who made two saves.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after the game, Scaloni said even with Messi\u2019s penalty save, his team knew that something positive was going to happen.<\/p>\n<p>Scaloni said, as quoted by All About Argentina on X: \u201cIn penalties, the team has blind confidence in their goalkeeper, and for us, that is fundamental.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven with Leo missing, the team knew that something positive was going to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Copa America: Argentina coach, speaks out on Messi\u2019s penalty miss<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Argentina manager, Lionel Scaloni has commented on captain Lionel Messi\u2019s penalty miss against Ecuador at Copa America 2024. Messi missed&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4417,15140,2634,15,160],"tags":[7261,4419,613,7262,2638,16816,1561,180,241,15674,1167,201],"class_list":["post-40204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-argentina","category-copa-america","category-messi","category-news","category-sport","tag-america","tag-argentina","tag-coach","tag-copa","tag-messi","tag-messis","tag-miss","tag-news","tag-out","tag-penalty","tag-speaks","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}