{"id":49464,"date":"2026-07-02T22:31:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T22:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/49464\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T22:31:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T22:31:21","slug":"2026-world-cup-spain-steamroll-austria-to-cruise-into-the-last-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/49464\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 World Cup: Spain steamroll Austria to cruise into the last 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"v-ath__i\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/autor-1695-foto-5.jpeg\" alt=\"Daryl Finch\"\/><\/p>\n<p>02\/07\/2026 a las 23:41h.<\/p>\n<p class=\"v-d-p\" style=\"\">Spain booked their place in the World Cup last 16 on Thursday night with a convincing 3-0 victory over Austria in Los Angeles, where Mikel Oyarzabal scored twice and Pedro Porro also found the net. The result means Luis de la Fuente&#8217;s side will face either Portugal or Croatia in Dallas on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"v-d-p\" style=\"\">Spain dominated possession from the outset and almost broke the deadlock when Lamine Yamal led a counter-attack, only for his effort to be saved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"v-d-p\" style=\"\">Oyarzabal also went close as Austria struggled to gain a foothold, while Marc Cucurella had a goal ruled out after Pau Cubars\u00ed was judged to have fouled goalkeeper Alexander Schlager from a corner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"v-d-p\" style=\"\">The pressure finally told in the 36th minute when Cucurella picked out Oyarzabal inside the area with a low cutback and the Real Sociedad forward swept home.<\/p>\n<p>\nComfortable victory sealed\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"v-d-p\" style=\"\">Spain continued to dictate play after the break, although Austria threatened briefly when substitute Sasa Kalajdzic headed over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"v-d-p\" style=\"\">The second goal arrived in the 66th minute after a flowing move involving Dani Olmo, Cucurella and \u00c1lex Baena, whose cross from the left was headed in by Porro from close range.<\/p>\n<p class=\"v-d-p\" style=\"\">Austria pushed forward in the closing stages, but Oyarzabal completed the scoring five minutes from time, finishing another superb Cucurella assist to complete his brace and secure a deserved victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"v-d-p\" style=\"\">The striker&#8217;s fourth goal of the tournament was his 29th for his country, moving him into sixth place and clear of Fernando Morientes in Spain&#8217;s all-time scoring charts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"v-d-p\" style=\"\">Goalkeeper Unai Sim\u00f3n also made history by extending his World Cup clean-sheet streak to 519 minutes, surpassing the previous record of 517 minutes set by Walter Zenga.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"02\/07\/2026 a las 23:41h. Spain booked their place in the World Cup last 16 on Thursday night with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4222,11350,1280,2058,5787,7884,17,21740,582,4546],"class_list":["post-49464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-4222","tag-austria","tag-cruise","tag-cup","tag-into","tag-last","tag-spain","tag-steamroll","tag-the","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}