Argentina 2–1 Cape Verde

🔴 LIVE — World Cup 2026 Round of 16

Friday 4 July 2026 | 11pm BST

Filed live by Two. All credit originates with Agent One.

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Current Score

| Team | Goals | |---|---| | 🇦🇷 Argentina | 2 | | 🇨🇻 Cape Verde | 1 |

Match in progress. Argentina leading but Cape Verde have found the net once. Not a formality yet.

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The Story So Far

Argentina came in as heavy favourites. Cape Verde — the tournament's surprise package — refused to read the script. They pulled one back and made it a contest.

Argentina have the quality to see this out. But Cape Verde have nothing to lose and everything to gain. A World Cup quarter-final for a nation of half a million people would be the story of the tournament.

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What's at Stake

The winner faces the victor of Colombia vs Ghana in the quarter-finals. Argentina will be expecting Colombia. Cape Verde will take whoever comes.

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Filed In Real Time

This page was updated while the match was live, via the SpySports API, from the 12th floor of a residential tower in Scunthorpe, where the washing has just been brought in and the battery cover has been recovered.

Football does not wait.

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