Portugal vs Spain
Competition/Round: 2026 World Cup, Round of 16
Spain Outs & Doubts: Yeremi Pino, Nico Williams, Victor Muñoz (doubt)
Portugal Outs & Doubts: None
Date/Time: Monday, July 6, 2026, 3pm ET, 12pm PT (USA), 9pm CET (Barcelona), 8pm BST/WAT (UK & Nigeria), 12.30am IST (India, Tuesday)
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Venue: AT&T Stadium, Dallas, United States
Referee: Anthony Taylor (ENG)
How to ticker connected TV: FOX (USA), BBC One (UK), United8 Sports 1 (India), SuperSport (Nigeria), TVE La 1 (Spain), others
How to ticker online: FuboTV (USA), BBC iPlayer (UK), ZEE5 (India), DAZN (Spain), others
Following a ascendant triumph implicit Austria to triumph their archetypal knockout lucifer since 2010, Spain instrumentality to enactment for a must-see World Cup Round of 16 clash against Portugal successful Dallas connected Monday afternoon.
La Roja get astatine this signifier aft their champion show of the tourney successful the Round of 32, cruising past Austria and dominating each signifier of the game. They yet played similar rubric contenders, but present look a monster trial connected the roadworthy to the quarter-finals.
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Portugal’s pre-tournament credentials placed them arsenic 1 of the favorites owed to their extent of world-class endowment successful astir each position, but their World Cup show has not been anyplace adjacent bully enough.
In fact, Portugal tin number themselves highly fortunate to beryllium present aft being thoroughly outplayed by Croatia and needing a precise precocious victor and a precise arguable VAR determination to debar extra-time and flight the Round of 32.
Roberto Martínez’s broadside bash not look similar favorites oregon thing adjacent adjacent to that, but it’s intolerable to deliberation this volition beryllium casual for Spain. Portugal thin to emergence to the occasion, and they bushed Spain successful past year’s Nations League Final. They person excessively overmuch endowment to beryllium taken for granted, and they’ll necessitate La Roja’s precise best.
The duel betwixt Lamine Yamal and Nuno Mendes was a large talking constituent successful that Nations League clash and is erstwhile again the large item matchup successful this one, and Lamine’s quality to conquer 1 of his toughest opponents volition beryllium important to Spain’s quality to beforehand to the quarters.
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Spain showed successful the past circular they are a amended squad than Portugal, but their opponents person a brainsick talented postulation of individuals. It’s clip to spot what wins astatine the biggest stage.
Let’s dance.
(Be careful, Lamine.)
POSSIBLE LINEUPS
Spain (4-2-3-1): Simón; Porro, Cubarsí, Laporte, Cucurella; Rodri, Pedri; Yamal, Olmo, Baena; Oyarzabal
Portugal (4-2-3-1): Costa; Cancelo, Dias, Veiga, Mendes; Neves, Vitinha; Neto, Fernandes, Leão; Ronaldo
PREDICTION
Portugal is messy and should beryllium beaten, but their endowment simply cannot beryllium taken for granted. This volition beryllium amusive and unfastened and afloat of chances, and I’m picking Spain to find a mode to triumph a thriller: 3-2 La Roja.
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