Belgium Bid to Crack Spain's Ironclad Defence in World Cup Quarter-Final
Belgium’s veteran core faces Spain’s six-match World Cup clean-sheet run as Romelu Lukaku seeks to add to his three tournament goals.
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Soccer-Spain's well-oiled machine faces Belgian blast in World Cup quarter-final
July 8 (Reuters) - Spain face Belgium on Friday in a World Cup quarter-final that pits one of the tournament's smoothest operators against a side emboldened by a thunderous 4-1 win over the United States that followed one of football's most bizarre political interventions.
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France24Belgium bid to crack Spain's ironclad defence in World Cup quarter-final
In beating Cristiano Ronaldo's Portugal 1-0 on Monday, Luis de la Fuente's men became the first team in history to record six consecutive World Cup clean sheets. Spain have not shown the attacking flair of France but they are playing the careful, possession-based football that took them to glory in South Africa in 2010. The prodigiously gifted Lamine Yamal is the team's most potent attacker on paper but the teenager arrived in the United States …
Spain's iron defence faces Belgium's golden generation
Belgium meet Spain in the World Cup quarter-finals on Friday with the daunting task of breaching the European champions’ watertight defence for the first time at the 2026 tournament. In beating Cristiano Ronaldo’s Portugal 1-0 on Monday, Luis de la Fuente’s men became the first team in history to record six consecutive World Cup clean sheets. Spain have not shown the attacking flair of France but they are playing the careful, possession-based fo…
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