The Spanish national team won a World Cup playoff match for the first time in 16 years.

The Spanish national football team has won a World Cup playoff match for the first time in 16 years. The meeting with the Austrian team took place on July 2 and ended with a score of 3:0.

Mikel Oyarzabal scored goals for the winners, scoring doubles in the 36th and 89th minutes of the match, as well as Pedro Porro, who hit the opponent's goal in the 66th minute.

In the 1/8 finals of the tournament, the Spanish national team will face the winner of the match between Portugal and Croatia.

According to the results of the preliminary stage, the Spanish national team took first place in Group H. The Austrian national team entered the playoffs from the second place in the J quartet.

The last time the Spaniards won matches in the World Cup playoffs was in 2010.

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The England national football team held a strong—willed victory over the team of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the match of the 1/16 finals of the 2026 World Cup. The match took place on July 1 and ended with a score of 2:1 in favor of the British. For the first time in the last 60 years, the England national team won a game in which it was the first to concede a goal.