{"id":677622,"date":"2026-07-07T00:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T00:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/677622\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T00:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T00:36:08","slug":"world-cup-2026-portugal-0-1-spain-mikel-merino-sends-spain-to-quarter-finals-as-cristiano-ronaldo-fails-to-deliver-sky-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/677622\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026: Portugal 0-1 Spain &#8211; Mikel Merino sends Spain to quarter-finals as Cristiano Ronaldo fails to deliver &#8211; Sky Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi_gFBVV95cUxPbWlEMjdOT09hc2F3N0dVcm96cGRMdlpENGY5ZDRwa3VJdGQwZzdSUkk1cWtsZXFwc2FBZWx1dFN2RjFNQkUtaWZZTlM5SXdrSlZ6RjV6TnpwVGpBbG5hVEFIRVlVY2EzQ0lvZWxNcTVxSUFEb0JLU3RFYU9NYW1MS0hTMkJwaDdFNml2YXo3ZnhmdDZOeEZnaU5NZXRQRWdMYUFiVnUxOHNmazJnRi1wZ0hjS21oa3RVUl90YUk4X3ZCa0x1VnVTRXNVLWlKNWlkdDBRMWg3ODR2WHctVC11aHEwM2J1YUJUNVVYaVVzaDBXY25ibzV6bFZnNGtLdw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">World Cup 2026: Portugal 0-1 Spain &#8211; Mikel Merino sends Spain to quarter-finals as Cristiano Ronaldo fails to deliver<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Sky Sports<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMimgFBVV95cUxOX1h1clpvWjhwS2FaN1BJaWJldS1tZmJCeDZBZU5iYm1EUTZMZ3JfUjFWY3NGYzNVSVI0YXliZ1V4RFJ4NTFaRE84bVZKUkkwQldPaHBKREtydWhhV243RFd0eDlnRDVDajItYWw3eFljbVlxUDA5WExlMy1mS3RROTZaeTlROWExM21aN0dqbWlRZldGUVFEaFZn?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Merino strikes at the death for Spain to send Portugal and Ronaldo limping out<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Guardian<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMixwFBVV95cUxQTThOVi1md0JlNzZlWXE2M0JXVThXazlFV2s3aWxFb09MTF95Z1RBenl5R2xzZVVmV1lVdktsYnl0ZG11NF85bm13Uk9SeTNFWk9oQTVJdkROUlRWUzhieklMZldUMzdEem45MmlJZWhLM28yRVV1UVEzbG5QMy1PRjIxWk8xNmFETkgteGlKMHd1RE8xM3pwbk1kUUxJT2EzUXB0RlA3ZExWM0NLR1Z0TGVURFljTXN5ejVfRmxOMU1CV29idXFN?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ronaldo&#8217;s World Cup career ends with a whimper as Spain&#8217;s subs win it late<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;ESPN<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiZ0FVX3lxTE1sQ1F4VVM2Q2h6ODdwMUpyTXlaN2tST0ZXbVNVYzZfYjMzWXRoMHNKbXhpNi1qQkJQVFRNY1JpZzNLZDNzVjJ2T2J3RnE1WU9ILXJMT1Zock52WERiVVFHbkJySkVNelU?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">World Cup 2026: Rate the players in X v Y<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMisgFBVV95cUxNN3c4NXQxbmxQNS15NWs0T243dXRNTmsyQUgwOElsX3dOMWNyczE4X3A0X0JHclhNMmxwVkQtdEN2UlJLd25xdHFRdHdCZFJTOUgtbGU1Q3diZ3E2UTJzZWwycVN6RzAtNndCZERLenJ4RjFUWXJsdWdrZEw2LVpLb2hXSkJJandhdEJWNkloaklMNy13b1RaYVIwWjVYR1RZNEtiTU9Yemk0T3R6NW0yMXl3?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cristiano Ronaldo in tears after Portugal crash out of World Cup to Spain\u2019s stoppage-time winner<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Independent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026: Portugal 0-1 Spain &#8211; Mikel Merino sends Spain to quarter-finals as Cristiano Ronaldo fails to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-677622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}