In the 2026 FIFA World Cup semi-final match, Spain defeated France 2-0 and advanced to the final.
France and Spain faced each other in the 2026 World Cup semi-final match at Dallas Stadium. The first part of the match, where El Salvadoran referee Ivan Barton blew his whistle, was spent with mutual attacks. The referee showed the penalty point after Lucas Digne's intervention on Yamal, who was trying to intervene while trying to clear the ball from the right diagonal of the penalty area, after Cucurella's cross from the left wing. With the goal scored by Mikel Oyarzabal from the penalty spot in the 22nd minute, the Spanish took the lead 1-0. While France had difficulty getting into position after the goal, the first half ended with a score of 1-0. In the 58th minute of the match, Spain's attack developed by passing, and Pedro Porro moved into the penalty area by making a wall pass with Dani Olmo in the penalty arc. Facing the goalkeeper, Pedro Porro scored the goal that increased the difference to 2. While the French had difficulty in creating positions in the remaining minutes, Spain won 2-0 and got a ticket to the final. France, which played in the final of the 2022 World Cup, said goodbye to the tournament in the semi-finals.
Kylian Mbappe, who made a great contribution to France reaching the semi-finals and made his mark with his goals, closed the tournament with 8 goals. The 27-year-old football player reached 20 goals in the World Cup, in which he competed for the third time.
The students of the last European champion Luis de la Fuente will succeed in playing in the final of the World Cup after 16 years. Spain reached the final of the tournament held in South Africa for the first time and won the championship by defeating the Netherlands 1-0.
Spain will play the winner of the England-Argentina match in the 2026 World Cup final.
Spain, which also attracted attention with its defense in the 2026 World Cup, completed another match without conceding a goal. Goalkeeper Unai Simon kept a clean sheet in 3 matches in the group stage and did not concede a goal in the last 32 and the last 16 rounds. Spain, which scored its first goal in the tournament against Belgium in the quarter-finals, did not allow a goal to its opponent in the semi-finals. In 2010, when Spain won its first world championship, it conceded 2 goals and kept a clean sheet in 5 matches. - ISTANBUL