If you were asked ahead of the 2026 World Cup which team would be most likely to stop Lionel Messi and Argentina, Switzerland wouldn’t have been very high on the list. Then again, neither would Egypt, but they got mighty close to doing just that in the Round of 16 a few days ago. Alas Argentina made it through thanks to a comeback of epic proportions engineered by Messi, as well as a couple of highly controversial refereeing decisions.