{"id":406418,"date":"2025-09-07T23:31:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T23:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/406418\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T23:31:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T23:31:10","slug":"blaugranes-shine-in-big-spain-win-over-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/406418\/","title":{"rendered":"Blaugranes shine in big Spain win over Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This big win for <strong>Spain <\/strong>away to <strong>Turkey <\/strong>(0-6) had a distinct blaugrana flavour to it, as four <strong>FC Barcelona<\/strong> players featured in this second <strong>2026 World Cup qualifying UEFA Classification E match<\/strong>, namely\u00a0<strong>Pedri, Ferran Torres, Lamine Yamal<\/strong> and <strong>Ferm\u00edn L\u00f3pez<\/strong>, with three out of four directly involved in goals.<\/p>\n<p>Pedri puts on show<\/p>\n<p>Standout performance from <strong>Pedri<\/strong>, topped off by a brace. His curling first from just outside the area after a lovely feint opened the scoring after six minutes, and he went on to get the last goal for Spain, slotting past the keeper into the far post after good work by <strong>Oyarzabal<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Fourth goal &#8216;made in&#8217; Bar\u00e7a<\/p>\n<p>You can&#8217;t look past the fourth goal for Spain if you are of a blaugrana persuasion as no fewer than three FC Barcelona players were involved and one twice in this great counter-attack.<\/p>\n<p>Ferran Torres first won a header in midfield on to <strong>Pedri<\/strong>, who carried the ball to the edge of the area before passing to <strong>Lamine Yamal<\/strong>, who in turn awaited the onrushing <strong>Ferran Torres<\/strong> and he fired in with a low shot. <strong>Golazo &#8216;made in&#8217; Bar\u00e7a. <\/strong>Bar\u00e7a&#8217;s number 10 also assisted Mikel Merino for his hat-trick goal and completed eight dribbles in the game.<\/p>\n<p>So, with the blaugranes shining bright, Spain are top of the group after two games and a step closer to the <strong>2026 World Cup<\/strong> next summer in <strong>USA, Canada and Mexico<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This big win for Spain away to Turkey (0-6) had a distinct blaugrana flavour to it, as four&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[2000,299,104,661],"class_list":{"0":"post-406418","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-spain","11":"tag-text"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115165625286978787","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}