Here is a look at the England vs Argentina<\/strong> football World Cup player ratings for their semi-final from the big world sports newspapers. Argentina won 2-1 thanks to two late goals and will meet Spain, who saw off France in the other semifinal. Chelsea\u2019s Enzo netted for the Argentines in this game.<\/p>\n Ole Newspaper player ratings England 1-2 Argentina World Cup 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n Argentine sports newspaper Ole were pretty critical of England manager Thomas Tuchel, giving him a 2\/10 rating for tactics. They also noted that Tuchel\u2019s defensive substitutions didn\u2019t really have the impact he wanted them to- his subs\u2019 player ratings were ordinary compared to Argentina\u2019s bench players.<\/p>\n Ole liked both Messi and Alvarez upfront, and thought Man United\u2019s Martinez and Spurs\u2019 Romero did well. They were less complementary about Molina- especially his positioning for the Gordon goal.<\/p>\n Diario AS player ratings England 1 Argentina 2 WC 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n The Spanish paper was full of praise for Argentine skipper Messi and substitute Lautaro Martinez, giving both of them 3 stars. Molina wasn\u2019t deemed worthy of a rating. Mostly 1 star ratings for the English team, with a smattering of two stars for some players.<\/p>\n L\u2019Equipe player ratings ENG 1 ARG 2 Soccer World Cup semi final<\/p>\n Finally we come to French newspaper L\u2019Equipe\u2019s ratings for the game. They thought Bellingham & Kane were disappointing and Chelsea\u2019s Enzo as the best of the Argentine starters.<\/p>\n Here is a look at the England vs Argentina football World Cup player ratings for…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18062","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\/18062","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=18062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"England](\"https:\/\/www.soccer-blogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/England-player-ratings-vs-Argentina-football-2026-Ole-Newspaper.jpg\")
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