Egypt stayed 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 in 120 minutes.

Harry Souttar and Lucas Herrington both missed their spot-kicks for Australia, while Egypt scored all of theirs – against Mat Ryan, who came on 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 glance his second own-goal of the tournament into the back of the net 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, who had been a doubt with a hamstring strain.

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 v Spain, 2026 v 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 benefited from two own goals in World Cup matches, and both were for their only two knockout-stage goals in the tournament (Enzo Fernandez 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.