{"id":128376,"date":"2025-09-08T08:22:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T08:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/128376\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T08:22:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T08:22:08","slug":"turkey-0-6-spain-arsenals-mikel-merino-scores-hat-trick-in-rout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/128376\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey 0-6 Spain: Arsenal&#8217;s Mikel Merino scores hat-trick in rout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mikel Merino scored a hat-trick as Spain demolished Turkey in their World Cup qualifier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Arsenal midfielder&#8217;s third in the 57th minute was the pick of his goals as he collected a pass from Lamine Yamal and curled home from over 20 yards out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 29-year-old has scored six goals in six games for Spain in 2025, having netted just twice in his first 31 caps.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pedri scored twice and his Barcelona team-mate Ferran Torres claimed the other in Konya.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mikel Oyarzabal had set up Merino&#8217;s two first-half efforts &#8211; and assisted three goals in total as the hosts were stunned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Spain have won their opening two World Cup qualifiers in Group E, while Turkey and Georgia are on three points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mikel Merino scored a hat-trick as Spain demolished Turkey in their World Cup qualifier. The Arsenal midfielder&#8217;s third&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-128376","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}