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Enzo Fern\u00e1ndez has removed the Oasis song \u201cWonderwall\u201d from an Instagram story after appearing to mock England following Argentina\u2019s World Cup semi-final victory.<\/strong><\/p>\n The Chelsea midfielder scored Argentina\u2019s 85th-minute equaliser before Lautaro Mart\u00ednez completed a dramatic 2-1 comeback in Atlanta.<\/p>\n Fern\u00e1ndez later reshared an image of himself laughing alongside Lionel Messi and Leandro Paredes. The original version included \u201cWonderwall\u201d, which England players and supporters had adopted during their run through the tournament.<\/p>\n The 25-year-old then posted the same image again without the song after receiving criticism online.<\/p>\n According to the Evening Standard report carried by AOL, Fern\u00e1ndez\u2019s change followed further controversy involving Chelsea\u2019s own social media activity.<\/p>\n Chelsea had congratulated Fern\u00e1ndez on reaching a second consecutive World Cup final through their official X account.<\/p>\n The club later deleted the post after supporters criticised an English team for celebrating a goal which helped eliminate England.<\/p>\n As Read Chelsea reported after the semi-final, the reaction placed the club in a difficult position because Reece James and Trevoh Chalobah were part of Thomas Tuchel\u2019s squad.<\/p>\n Fern\u00e1ndez\u2019s goal provided one of the decisive moments of the match. His celebration, which included cupping his ears, had already attracted attention before the Instagram story appeared.<\/p>\n There is no evidence Chelsea asked him to alter the post. The midfielder appears to have made the change himself after the reaction online.<\/p>\n Fern\u00e1ndez will now prepare for Sunday\u2019s final against Spain. He is expected to start as Argentina attempt to become the first country since Brazil in 1962 to retain the World Cup.<\/p>\n The midfielder will then return to Chelsea, where Xabi Alonso has publicly confirmed he wants him to remain next season.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Enzo Fern\u00e1ndez has removed the Oasis song \u201cWonderwall\u201d from an Instagram story after appearing to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18364","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\/18364","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=18364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Chelsea also removed Fern\u00e1ndez post<\/h2>\n