Pedri de España celebrates the goal of 0-1 during the soccer match of the Group E classification for the FIFA 2026 World Cup between Turkey and Spain in Konya, Turkey, on September 7, 2025.
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Spacethat thrashed 0-6 in Türkiye, and Belgiumvictorious at home against Kazakhstan for the same result, they gave two blows on the table this Sunday in the European classification phase for the 2026 World Cup, while Germany He walked down the tightrope, but managed to beat Northern Ireland (3-1).
Group A: Victoria hard
La 'team', Tetrampeone of the worldHe spent part of his match in Colonia unable to break the tie to one before the modest British team, when the three points were an imperative for the team of Julian Nagelsmann, who began his journey to the World Cup in the United States, Mexico and Canada losing three days ago in Slovakia (2-0).
With these first three points in the brief classification campaign, Germany reaches its adversary of the night, which had been imposed on Thursday in Luxembourg (3-1), but continues three behind Slovakia, which achieved a valuable victory in the Great Duchy (1-0).
Thanks to Serge Gnabry's goals (7), Nadiem Amiri (69) and Florian Wirtz (72), players led by Julian Nagelsmann corrected the course after Bratislava's Fiasco.
But they showed again worrying signs of fragility in defense, as in the draw of Isaac Price (34) after a corner.
“We knew that the last game was a catastrophe and we wanted to do better,” Wirtz told the German chain RTL. “It was a good performance on which we can definitely build.”
Group E: Merino Triplet
Far from the classifying troubles and the game problems of Germany, Spain launched a notice to the planet football with its win in the 'Turkish hell'.
The Ottomans, who collided the group equal to points with the red, crashed at the play combined with high intensity and a great success scorer of the men of Luis de la Fuente.
Pedri He opened and closed the win (6, 62), and in between, Mikel Merino signed a triplet (22, 45+1 and 57) and Ferran Torres He pointed to the festival (53) that leaves Spain solo leader of his group with three more points than the Turks and that Georgia, who beat the Bulgarian colist 3-0.
“There is much to improve because it is a team that can still grow even beyond my imagination. They are insatiableand now we think what we should do to go more, ”he said from the source at a press conference.
Group G: The Depay record
The favorite Netherlands and Poland, which came from neutralizing in Rotterdam (1-1), beat Lithuania (2-3) and Finland (3-1) respectively.
Both selections collide the key with 10 points, although Oranje has one less match.
In Kaunas he was the protagonist Memphis Depay, which became the top historical scorer in the Netherlands. The Corinthians striker signed a double to reach the 52 goals With the Oranje and overcome Robin Van Persie, who scored 50 in his career.
“We can qualify our performance as very bad, except for Memphis,” said Dutch Captain Van Dijk.
J: Bruyne Renace Group
The J Group, one of the most equality in the fight for being at the World Cup event, were lived this Sunday: The 6-0 from Belgium to Kazakhstan, and the 5-0 of Macedonia del Norte to Liechtenstein.
It was the second blank set for the Belgians, who came from winning for the same result to Liechtenstein.
Stood out in Brussels an inspired Kevin de Bruyneauthor of two goals and two goal passes.
In the classification, Belgium (10 points) is placed at the height of Wales and a point of Macedonia, although with one game less than these two nations, which will be the rivals of the Belgians in a month of October decisive.
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