New Delhi, July 12 -- Lautaro Martinez added a third in stoppage time of extra time, and Argentina were in the semifinals again.

The final score was 3-1, Argentina over Switzerland, after 120 minutes. It was never a comfortable win, but it was never really in doubt either - not once Breel Embolo was sent off with eighteen minutes of regulation still to play, reduced to ten men by a VAR decision that Swiss head coach Murat Yakin called one of the strangest rulings he had seen in thirty years of football.

Argentina opened the scoring with the kind of move that has defined their tournament. Lionel Messi, drifting into a corner kick position, curled the ball to the near post with a precision that bordered on casual. Alexis Mac Allister met ...