{"id":6939,"date":"2026-07-19T21:19:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T21:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=6939"},"modified":"2026-07-19T21:19:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T21:19:16","slug":"argentinas-lisandro-martinez-departs-world-cup-final-vs-spain-early-due-to-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=6939","title":{"rendered":"Argentina&#039;s Lisandro Mart\u00ednez Departs World Cup Final vs. Spain Early Due To Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"subnav-title ff-ffc bold fs-23 lh-25 uc pd-b-10\">\n            POPULAR SEARCHES\n          <\/p>\n<p class=\"subnav-title ff-ffc bold fs-23 lh-25 uc pd-b-10\">\n            BROWSE BY\n          <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>If Argentina is going to beat Spain in the 2206 FIFA World Cup Final, it&#8217;ll have to do it without one of its top defenders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>Lisandro Mart\u00ednez departed Sunday&#8217;s final right before halftime due to an apparent leg injury. It&#8217;s unclear how the injury happened, but Mart\u00ednez went down on the pitch during a break in play and remained down until he departed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>Nicol\u00e1s Otamendi replaced Mart\u00ednez.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>Mart\u00ednez has been a crucial player for Argentina in the World Cup. He started all but one match for Argentina in this World Cup, with his lone benching coming when his side had nothing to play for in its group play finale.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>Mart\u00ednez also scored a goal in Argentina&#8217;s round of 32 victory over Cape Verde. That goal was his second in international play, and he had an assist in that match. Sunday marked the Manchester United standout&#8217;s 35th appearance for Argentina.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>As the match remained scoreless through halftime, Argentina made another substitution out of the break. It replaced forward Nicol\u00e1s Gonz\u00e1lez with midfielder Leandro Paredes. Paredes picked up a yellow card a few minutes after his entry.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POPULAR SEARCHES BROWSE BY If Argentina is going to beat Spain in the 2206 FIFA World Cup Final, it&#8217;ll have to do it without one of its top defenders. Lisandro Mart\u00ednez departed Sunday&#8217;s final right before halftime due to an apparent leg injury. It&#8217;s unclear how the injury happened, but Mart\u00ednez went down on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}