{"id":27970,"date":"2026-07-10T15:23:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T15:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/27970\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T15:23:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T15:23:13","slug":"world-cup-day-29-recap-and-spain-vs-belgium-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/27970\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup: Day 29 recap and Spain vs. Belgium open thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The World Cup is starting to wind down and at the end of today we\u2019ll know the first semifinal matchup, as Belgium and Spain battle. The \u201cwinner\u201d gets to play France. Spain played one of the most boring games of the tournament in the last round, not really befitting their status as a World Cup tournament favorite. However, in this match both teams will be playing under the \u201cwatchful eye\u201d of Michael Oliver, so you know it\u2019s going to be extremely stupid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Here\u2019s your daily recap and preview of today\u2019s game.<\/p>\n<p>Day 29 Quarterfinal Recap<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Goals: Mbappe (60\u2019), Dembele (66\u2019)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Well, considering I had pegged this as most likely the best match in the quarterfinals, I was sure made to look like a fool, huh? I\u2019m going to go out on a limb here and say that France looks like they\u2019re pretty good at this whole football thing.<\/p>\n<p>Day 30: Spain vs. Belgium<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">3 p.m. ET \/ 8 p.m. BST<br \/>SoFi Stadium, Los Angeles, USA<br \/>TV: FOX (USA), Telemundo (USA &#8211; Espa\u00f1ol), BBC One (UK)<br \/>Stream: Fox One, Peacock (Espa\u00f1ol)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Current\/former Tottenham players involved: Pedro Porro (Spain)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The World Cup is starting to wind down and at the end of today we\u2019ll know the first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,921],"class_list":["post-27970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-belgium","tag-belgium","tag-general"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116896373327935989","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}