{"id":216152,"date":"2026-07-06T23:40:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T23:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/portugal-vs-spain-live-2026-world-cup-updates-as-both-sides-push-for-breakthrough-espn\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T23:40:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T23:40:51","slug":"portugal-vs-spain-live-2026-world-cup-updates-as-both-sides-push-for-breakthrough-espn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/portugal-vs-spain-live-2026-world-cup-updates-as-both-sides-push-for-breakthrough-espn\/","title":{"rendered":"Portugal vs. Spain LIVE: 2026 World Cup updates as both sides push for breakthrough &#8211; ESPN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-player-guid=\"2ddb2d9a-11b1-28cd-ecb8-691cb8f9faa1\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/209581\/mikel-merino\">Mikel Merino<\/a> scored a dramatic stoppage-time winner to send <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"99314f68-1c92-218b-b02b-67c50ff9bc3a\" href=\"\/soccer\/team?id=164\">Spain<\/a> through to the World Cup quarterfinals as they eliminated <a data-player-guid=\"19e162c0-6bf5-d817-e9f9-81bf96001ee2\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/22774\/cristiano-ronaldo\">Cristiano Ronaldo<\/a>&#8216;s <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"12433baf-649d-7f4f-7233-6db63a5f62f4\" href=\"\/soccer\/team?id=482\">Portugal<\/a>.<br \/><em>La Roja <\/em>have reached the quarterfinals for the first time since winning the whole thing in 2010, and will face either <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"e6b65d49-258c-b730-b7db-df75c6b1f714\" href=\"\/soccer\/team?id=660\">United States<\/a> or <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"4084f797-3877-2af0-b70f-570d25a1a141\" href=\"\/soccer\/team?id=459\">Belgium<\/a> in Los Angeles on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiuAFBVV95cUxPZU01aUNDYV9nWUhTTE9UZHlTLVJWVVFSd3BpWnRRTVdhVXJvM29SdTBCZlQ2dGZYTDZkU1h0MEc2aFlac3pGYm4tMUppbU9VNzVmTjdwUGVEWE5IOFJrcWVwb21nTzdPUldkNTNSOU5mcWlRR1pwOWdzTmFSbkZZVTVBaDFrdFNrbC0weHgtUmpQSUxmWmszV3lDQ2tNbnRzUFd2em5XSEh3UWlpejVkOHpGa05BbDlo?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mikel Merino scored a dramatic stoppage-time winner to send Spain through to the World Cup quarterfinals as they eliminated Cristiano Ronaldo&#8216;s Portugal.La Roja have reached the quarterfinals for the first time since winning the whole thing in 2010, and will face either United States or Belgium in Los Angeles on Friday. source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":216153,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-216152","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}