Merino’s stoppage-time winner sends Spain into the quarter-finals and ends Ronaldo’s World Cup hopes
Spain’s progress to the quarter-finals was secured in dramatic fashion, with Mikel Merino emerging from the bench to score a stoppage-time winner against Portugal. It was the kind of late intervention...
Manchester United have confirmed that midfielder Manuel Ugarte suffered knee ligament damage while representing Uruguay in their World Cup defeat to Spain in Guadalajara on Friday. The club’s update i...
Manchester United are facing an anxious wait after midfielder Manuel Ugarte was forced off on a stretcher during Uruguay’s 1-0 World Cup defeat by Spain in Guadalajara. The club is now awaiting clarit...
Spain have been handed an early tournament worry after winger Yeremy Pino was reported as a possible absentee for the rest of the World Cup with a suspected broken collarbone. Even without a full medi...
Marcelo Bielsa’s Uruguay are now in a must-win position, with only a positive result against European champions Spain enough to stop what would be a damaging early World Cup exit. For a team with Urug...
Lamine Yamal was already the headline name before kick-off, but the conversation around him has only intensified after the final whistle. At 18, the Barcelona winger has become one of the most closely...
Lamine Yamal continues to attract heavyweight attention whenever Spain step onto a major stage, and BBC’s latest pundit discussion underlined just how central the teenager is becoming to the national ...
Lamine Yamal’s latest contribution for Spain was the kind of moment that quickly becomes part of a player’s growing reputation. The teenager scored the opening goal against Saudi Arabia in a Group H m...
Cape Verde’s run at the tournament has already produced one of the more human stories of the group stage, with goalkeeper Vozinha set to be reunited with his mother before the team’s next match agains...
Cape Verde’s draw with Spain has emerged as one of the early talking points of the World Cup, not simply because of the result itself but because of what it suggests about how smaller nations can frus...