Australia 1-1 Egypt Stats (2-4 pens): Pharaohs Head Through to World Cup Last 16 After Close Game in Dallas

A tight game was decided by penalties, with Mohamed Salah among those successful from the spot. Re-live the best action and stats from this 2026 World Cup round-of-32 game with our Australia vs Egypt stats page.

Egypt were perfect from the spot as they triumphed 4-2 on penalties in the World Cup round of 32 following a 1-1 draw with Australia after extra-time.

Emam Ashour had put Egypt in front early on, but Mohamed Hany‘s own goal 10 minutes into the second half drew Australia level, with neither team able to find a winner across 120 minutes. 

Harry Souttar and Lucas Herrington both missed their spot-kicks for Australia, while Egypt scored all of theirs – against Mathew Ryan, who came on especially for the shootout – to book their place in the last 16.

Cristian Volpato spun into space and, with Egypt’s defence caught on the back foot, tried his luck from 25 yards, but his shot skimmed the top of the crossbar five minutes in. 

Egypt were in front just eight minutes later. Ashour’s curler was blocked after a clever free-kick routine, but Karim Hafez recycled it to pick out the winger, whose downward header gave Patrick Beach no chance. 

Egypt should have had a second just 10 seconds after half-time as Omar Marmoush raced in behind Australia’s defence from the kick-off, but he drilled narrowly past the post. 

That miss was then punished in the 55th minute. Aiden O’Neill put a lovely free-kick in from the left, and Hany rose highest to accidentally glance in his second own-goal of the tournament to draw Australia level. 

Having largely struggled to break down Australia’s defence after the equaliser, Egypt almost snatched a win in stoppage-time, with Beach making a stellar save to keep out Ramy Rabia’s header before Souttar blocked Haissem Hassan‘s shot. 

Mohamed Salah‘s golden chance came two minutes into extra-time, but under pressure, he lifted a volley high over the crossbar from a tight angle on the right. 

Australia started the shootout, with Souttar sending the first spot-kick high over the bar, while Ryan was not able to keep out any of Egypt’s four attempts, including a lovely dink from Salah.  

But after Herrington, who became Australia’s youngest-ever starter in a World Cup knockout match, clipped the bar, Hossam Abdelmaguid coolly picked out the bottom-left corner to win it.

Egypt Break New Ground 

Both teams came into this match without a World Cup knockout-stage win to their name and had never taken part in penalties, but Egypt came out of it as only the second African nation ever to win a shootout, after Morocco’s two triumphs (2022 vs Spain, 2026 vs Netherlands). 

Things did not look particularly good for them at the start of the second half, as Hany picked up an unwanted statistic. He scored the 13th own goal of this World Cup – a record in a single edition.

Australia have benefitted from two own goals in World Cup matches, and both were for their only two knockout-stage goals in the tournament (Enzo Fernández also scored one in their last-16 clash with Argentina in 2022). 

Egypt were the bigger threat in the closing stages of the second half and for large parts of extra-time, with Salah’s influence starting to show. He created five chances in this match, taking him to 16 for the tournament – a joint-high tally alongside Belgium’s Leandro Trossard. 

Souttar had been a huge asset to Australia throughout the game, recording three blocks, seven clearances and eight successful aerial duels, but he could not keep his spot-kick down. 

Saber made the intended impact, though. He is only the second player to ever score a penalty without having touched the ball in the match at a major tournament, after Thomas Strunz for Germany against England at Euro 1996.

Our Opta match centre delivers you all the Australia vs Egypt stats from their 2026 FIFA World Cup round-of-32 meeting at Dallas Stadium on 3 July.

The match centre below includes team and player stats, expected goals data, passing networks, an Opta chalkboard and more. It gives you everything you need to do your own match analysis.

Underneath the match centre you can find the official Opta stats on the game as well. 

Australia vs Egypt: Selected Post-Match Opta Facts

• Emam Ashour (2 goals in 2026) is only the third Egypt player to score more than one goal at a single FIFA World Cup tournament, after Abdelrahman Fawzi (2 in 1934) and Mohamed Salah (2 in 2018).
• This was both Australia and Egypt’s first penalty shootout at the FIFA World Cup – the first time two nations were both involved in one for the first time at the finals in the same game since Denmark and Croatia’s last 16 match in 2018.
• Australia have been eliminated from all three of their FIFA World Cup knockout games: 2006 v Italy, 2022 v Argentina, and 2026 v Egypt.

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