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Enzo Fern\u00e1ndez scored a stunning late equaliser as Argentina came from behind to beat England 2-1 and reach the World Cup final.<\/strong><\/p>\n Anthony Gordon put England ahead in the 55th minute after meeting Morgan Rogers\u2019 low cross inside the penalty area.<\/p>\n Thomas Tuchel\u2019s side then dropped deeper as Argentina increased the pressure. Jordan Pickford made several important saves, but the defending champions eventually found a way through.<\/p>\n Lionel Messi worked a short corner to Fern\u00e1ndez in the 85th minute. The Chelsea midfielder took one touch before driving a powerful, swerving shot beyond Pickford and into the far corner.<\/p>\n Lautaro Mart\u00ednez completed the comeback in added time when he headed in Messi\u2019s cross from close range. Argentina will now face Spain in Sunday\u2019s final after securing a second successive appearance in the showpiece.<\/p>\n Reece James started at right-back for England after recovering from the injury which disrupted his tournament.<\/p>\n The Chelsea captain played 82 minutes and left the pitch with England still leading. Dan Burn replaced him shortly before Fern\u00e1ndez produced the equaliser.<\/p>\n James had returned from injury during the quarter-final victory over Norway after missing three matches. Trevoh Chalobah remained an unused substitute against Argentina.<\/p>\n Fern\u00e1ndez\u2019s latest goal continues an impressive World Cup campaign. He had already scored a late winner against Egypt earlier in the knockout stages.<\/p>\n The midfielder\u2019s importance to Chelsea also remains clear. Read Chelsea reported before the semi-final that Xabi Alonso wants Fern\u00e1ndez to remain at Stamford Bridge and views him as a central part of his plans.<\/p>\n The Associated Press match report confirmed Fern\u00e1ndez\u2019s equaliser and Mart\u00ednez\u2019s stoppage-time winner.<\/p>\n Fern\u00e1ndez will now prepare to face Spain, while James, Chalobah and England meet France in Saturday\u2019s third-place play-off.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Enzo Fern\u00e1ndez scored a stunning late equaliser as Argentina came from behind to beat England…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Chelsea team-mates experience contrasting nights<\/h2>\n