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Former winners Spain took a massive step towards qualifying for the 2026 World Cup with a convincing victory in Georgia.<\/b><\/p>\n

Luis de la Fuente’s side are three points clear with one match remaining in Group E and only a seven-goal loss at home to second-placed Turkey on Tuesday will deny Spain automatic qualification.<\/p>\n

Spain, the 2010 world champions, continued their dominant qualifying campaign and only needed 11 minutes before they scored their first goal in Tbilisi, thanks to Mikel Oyarzabal’s penalty following a handball from Giorgi Gocholeishvili.<\/p>\n

Arsenal midfielder Martin Zubimendi doubled Spain’s lead 11 minutes later by lifting the ball past Liverpool goalkeeper Giorgi Mamardashvili, with former Manchester City striker Ferran Torres adding a third before half-time from Oyarzabal’s pass.<\/p>\n

Torres then provided a curling cross in the 63rd minute which was headed in by Oyarzabal for his second goal and Spain’s fourth.<\/p>\n

Spain, top of Fifa’s world rankings, have won all five of their qualifiers, scoring 19 goals in the process and without conceding.<\/p>\n

They would have secured automatic qualification if Turkey had dropped points against Bulgaria, but Hakan Calhanoglu’s penalty and Atanas Chernev’s own goal gave Turkey a 2-0 win.<\/p>\n

But, with a goal difference 14 worse than Spain’s, Turkey need to win by a seven-goal margin in Sevilla on Tuesday to deny the Spanish automatic qualification for next summer’s tournament in Canada, Mexico and the United States.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Former winners Spain took a massive step towards qualifying for the 2026 World Cup with a convincing victory in Georgia. Luis de la Fuente’s side are three points clear with one match remaining in Group E and only a seven-goal loss at home to second-placed Turkey on Tuesday will deny Spain automatic qualification. Spain, the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}