{"id":22858,"date":"2026-07-15T16:43:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T11:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=22858"},"modified":"2026-07-15T16:43:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T11:43:27","slug":"spain-defeat-france-2-0-to-reach-2026-fifa-world-cup-final-after-16-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=22858","title":{"rendered":"Spain defeat France 2-0 to reach 2026 FIFA World Cup final after 16 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"brxe-c5b966\" class=\"brxe-post-content wpf__post-content\">\n<p><strong>Spain secured a place in the FIFA World Cup final for the first time in 16 years after defeating France 2-0 in the first semifinal played in Dallas.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-10\">\n<div id=\"div-ub-dailypakistan.com.pk_1689057861141\">Spain made an aggressive start to the match and took the lead in the 22nd minute when Mikel Oyarzabal converted a penalty. The goal was his fifth of the World Cup.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The second goal came in the 58th minute as Pedro Porro found the net with a superb strike, extending Spain\u2019s advantage and putting the team firmly in control.<\/p>\n<p>France, who had scored eight goals during the tournament, were unable to respond. Star forward Kylian Mbappe created chances but could not find the back of the net in the semifinal.<\/p>\n<p>The victory sends Spain into the World Cup final for the first time since 2010, when the team lifted the tournament trophy.<\/p>\n<p>The second semifinal is scheduled for tomorrow, with Argentina set to face England for the remaining place in the final.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"brxe-c60dce\" class=\"brxe-divider news-detail__divider horizontal\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spain secured a place in the FIFA World Cup final for the first time in 16 years after defeating France 2-0 in the first semifinal played in Dallas. Spain made an aggressive start to the match and took the lead in the 22nd minute when Mikel Oyarzabal converted a penalty. The goal was his fifth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22859,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowgLK2DA:productID":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,46,38],"tags":[12440,12380,8948,1138,2487,3676],"class_list":["post-22858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-latest","category-sports","tag-argentina","tag-fifa-world-cup","tag-football","tag-france","tag-semi-final","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22860,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22858\/revisions\/22860"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}