{"id":515031,"date":"2026-07-14T17:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T21:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=515031"},"modified":"2026-07-14T17:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T21:31:09","slug":"spain-dominates-france-for-2-0-win-to-reach-world-cup-final","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/spain-dominates-france-for-2-0-win-to-reach-world-cup-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain dominates France for 2-0 win to reach World Cup final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spain left no chance to France and defeated them 2-0 at AT&amp;T Stadium to advance to the World Cup final.<\/p>\n<p>La Roja was the better team from the 1<sup>st<\/sup> minute on the pitch as the opening goal in the match came in the 22nd minute when Mikel Oyarzabal converted a penalty for Lukas Digne\u2019s foul against Lamine Yamal.<\/p>\n<p>Kylian Mbappe and his teammates didn\u2019t find an answer, and in the 58<sup>th<\/sup> minute, things became worse for them as Spain doubled its lead. Pedro Porro made it 2-0 after almost an hour, following Dani Olmo\u2019s assist.<\/p>\n<p>La Roja continued to dominate the match despite the lead and left no real chances to France, who finished the semifinal without a single big chance to score, and despite being the favorite to win the game, they will need to pack and leave the USA.<\/p>\n<p>Spain will face either England or Argentina for the trophy as the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> semifinal will be played at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta later today, as that can be Messi\u2019s last World Cup appearance or he can lead his nation to another final.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud835\udc0e\ud835\udc0e\ud835\udc0e\ud835\udc0e\ud835\udc0e\ud835\udc0e\ud835\udc0e\ud835\udc0b\ud835\udc04, \ud835\udc0e\ud835\udc0b\ud835\udc04, \ud835\udc0e\ud835\udc0b\ud835\udc04&#8230; \ud835\udc12\ud835\udc0f\ud835\udc00\ud835\udc08\ud835\udc0d \ud835\udc07\ud835\udc14\ud835\udc0c\ud835\udc08\ud835\udc0b\ud835\udc08\ud835\udc00\ud835\udc13\ud835\udc04 \ud835\udc05\ud835\udc11\ud835\udc00\ud835\udc0d\ud835\udc02\ud835\udc04 \ud835\udc00\ud835\udc0d\ud835\udc03 \ud835\udc11\ud835\udc04\ud835\udc00\ud835\udc02\ud835\udc07 \ud835\udc12\ud835\udc04\ud835\udc02\ud835\udc0e\ud835\udc0d\ud835\udc03-\ud835\udc04\ud835\udc15\ud835\udc04\ud835\udc11 \ud835\udc16\ud835\udc0e\ud835\udc11\ud835\udc0b\ud835\udc03 \ud835\udc02\ud835\udc14\ud835\udc0f \ud835\udc05\ud835\udc08\ud835\udc0d\ud835\udc00\ud835\udc0b \ud83c\udfb6\ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddf8<\/p>\n<p>Mikel Oyarzabal shows up for Spain once again, while Pedro Porro scores his second-ever goal for La Roja \ud83d\udc4f<\/p>\n<p>It&#39;s the first\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6MNSBUpD6a\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/6MNSBUpD6a<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; 433 (@433) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/433\/status\/2077135870940053591?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">July 14, 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 left no chance to France and defeated them 2-0 at AT&amp;T Stadium to advance to the World Cup final. La Roja was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":515032,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17142,16913],"news_category":[14236,14235],"gn_keywords":[17862,18442],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"La Roja was the better team and is the 1st finalist in the tournament.","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\/515031"}],"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=515031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/515031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":515033,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/515031\/revisions\/515033"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515031"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=515031"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=515031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}