{"id":514703,"date":"2026-07-10T18:13:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T22:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=514703"},"modified":"2026-07-10T18:13:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T22:13:18","slug":"spain-beat-belgium-2-1-after-a-huge-goalkeeper-mistake","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/spain-beat-belgium-2-1-after-a-huge-goalkeeper-mistake\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain beat Belgium 2-1 after a huge goalkeeper mistake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spain defeated Belgium 2-1 at SoFi Stadium as the winning goal was scored after a huge error from reserve goalkeeper Senne Lammens, who replaced injured Thibaut Courtois earlier, and now La Roja will face France in the \u00bd finals of the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>After half an hour, Spain took the lead in the match after the ball ended in \u00a0Fabian Ruiz in the box, and he scored the opening goal in the game.<\/p>\n<p>However, Belgium found a way to answer before the end of the 1<sup>st<\/sup> half as Charles De Ketelaere header made the result 1-1 in the 41<sup>st<\/sup> minute.<\/p>\n<p>Things went smoothly in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> half, and neither team had huge chances to score. The key moment in the game came in the 71<sup>st<\/sup> minute when Thibaut Courtois had to leave the pitch after suffering an injury, and Manchester United goalkeeper Senne Lammens replaced him.<\/p>\n<p>And the Red Devils goalkeeper was the main factor for La Roja&#8217;s victory as his save ended up being an assist to Mikel Merino, and an Arsenal player, who entered the pitch only 2 minutes earlier, scored the winning goal in the clash after doing the same thing against Portugal in the 1\/8 finals.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud835\udc0c\ud835\udc08\ud835\udc0a\ud835\udc04\ud835\udc0b \ud835\udc0c\ud835\udc04\ud835\udc11\ud835\udc08\ud835\udc0d\ud835\udc0e \ud835\udc03\ud835\udc0e\ud835\udc04\ud835\udc12 \ud835\udc08\ud835\udc13 \ud835\udc00\ud835\udc06\ud835\udc00\ud835\udc08\ud835\udc0d \ud835\udc05\ud835\udc0e\ud835\udc11 \ud835\udc12\ud835\udc0f\ud835\udc00\ud835\udc08\ud835\udc0d \ud83e\udd2f\ud83e\udd2f\ud83e\udd2f<\/p>\n<p>\ud835\udde6\ud835\udde3\ud835\uddd4\ud835\udddc\ud835\udde1 \ud835\uddd8\ud835\udddf\ud835\udddc\ud835\udde0\ud835\udddc\ud835\udde1\ud835\uddd4\ud835\udde7\ud835\uddd8 \ud835\uddd5\ud835\uddd8\ud835\udddf\ud835\uddda\ud835\udddc\ud835\udde8\ud835\udde0 \ud835\uddd4\ud835\udde1\ud835\uddd7 \ud835\uddd4\ud835\udde5\ud835\uddd8 \ud835\udddc\ud835\udde1\ud835\udde7\ud835\udde2 \ud835\udde7\ud835\udddb\ud835\uddd8 \ud835\udde6\ud835\uddd8\ud835\udde0\ud835\udddc-\ud835\uddd9\ud835\udddc\ud835\udde1\ud835\uddd4\ud835\udddf\ud835\udde6 \ud83e\udd75<\/p>\n<p>Merino against Portugal:<br \/>85&#39; \u2014 Subbed on \ud83d\udd01<br \/>90+1&#39; \u2014 Goal \u26bd<\/p>\n<p>Merino against Belgium:<br \/>86&#39; \u2014 Subbed on \ud83d\udd01\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hgqYt1gpqe\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/hgqYt1gpqe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; 433 (@433) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/433\/status\/2075686381221724591?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">July 10, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spain defeated Belgium 2-1 at SoFi Stadium as the winning goal was scored after a huge error from reserve goalkeeper Senne Lammens, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":514704,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17338,16913],"news_category":[14236,14235],"gn_keywords":[18001,18442],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"La Roja advanced to the semifinals of the World Cup.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/514703"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/514703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":514705,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/514703\/revisions\/514705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514703"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=514703"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=514703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}