{"id":776950,"date":"2026-07-03T05:01:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T05:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/776950\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T05:01:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T05:01:21","slug":"heavyweights-portugal-spain-to-meet-in-round-of-16-at-fifa-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/776950\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavyweights Portugal, Spain to meet in Round of 16 at FIFA World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"

The knockout stage at the FIFA World Cup is heating up with several marquee matchups, perhaps none with as much star power as Portugal and Spain on Monday afternoon. <\/p>\n

The two soccer heavyweights will go head to head next week on July 6 at Dallas Stadium in Arlington, Texas, as both nations eye the final eight.<\/p>\n

You can watch that game LIVE on Monday at 2:45pm ET\/11:45am PT across the TSN Network, on TSN.ca and the TSN App<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Spain was first to punch its ticket to the next stage, defeating Austria 3-0 Thursday afternoon in Los Angeles. A brace from Mikel Oyarzabal and a goal from Pedro Porro put La Roja comfortably through to the Round of 16 for the third straight World Cup.<\/p>\n

Spain collected seven of a possible nine points on their way to winning Group H and drawing Austria in the knockout stage, who finished second in Group J.<\/p>\n

Also Thursday, Portugal narrowly survived Croatia 2-1 in Toronto in one of the best games of the tournament thus far. The Portuguese trailed 1-0 in the second half but a goal by Cristiano Ronaldo on a penalty kick — his first ever in the World Cup knockout stage — equalized and a picture-perfect header from Goncalo Ramos in the fourth minute of stoppage time gave Portugal the win.<\/p>\n

Croatia looked to have tied things at the end of stoppage time, but VAR clawed back the equalizer for being offside. <\/p>\n

Portugal drew twice and picked up one win during the preliminary round, finishing second in Group K behind Colombia.<\/p>\n

According to FIFA, Spain is ranked No. 3 in the world while Portugal sits seventh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The knockout stage at the FIFA World Cup is heating up with several marquee matchups, perhaps none with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":776951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[712,49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-776950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776950","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=776950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}