Burnley appoint Belgian Hayen as head coach
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Spain bench Pedri, De Bruyne and Doku start for Belgium
INGLEWOOD, California, July 10 : Spain manager Luis de la Fuente made one change for Friday's World Cup quarter-final against Belgium, dropping Pedri to the bench for Fabian Ruiz, while Rudi Garcia recalled Kevin De Bruyne and Jeremy Doku in two Belgium changes.
Mbappe keeps France’s greats comparison on ice as semi-final beckons
BOSTON, MA, July 10 : France have been drawing comparisons with greats of the past with their World Cup run, in which Kylian Mbappe and Ousmane Dembele have scored 13 goals between them, but Les Bleus' captain said the current team have not achieved anything yet.
Merlier sprints to stage seven victory as Pogacar retains Tour de France lead
BORDEAUX, France, July 10 : Belgian Tim Merlier (Soudal Quick-Step) triumphed in a crowded sprint to win stage seven of the Tour de France on Friday, beating Soren Waerenskjold to the finish line with a breakneck final charge in Bordeaux.
World Cup quarterfinals: How we got here, predictions, odds - ESPN
Four full weeks after the 2026 FIFA World Cup began, the quarterfinals kicked off Thursday with each remaining team only three wins away from becoming world champions.
Spain aim for World Cup date with France by beating Belgium
LOS ANGELES: European champions Spain are on a World Cup collision course with Kylian Mbappe’s France if they can beat Belgium in a quarter-final on Friday. At the spectacular SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles, the Belgians face the daunting task of breaking through a Spanish defense that has yet to concede a goal in the tournament. If Spain win, they will head to Texas next Tuesday for a mouth-watering semifinal against France that many observers are already describing as the final before the final. First though Spain need to find goals against a Belgium team who started the World Cup slowly but caught fire as the tournament has gone on. The 4-1 demolition of the USA in the last round showed just how far the team coached by Rudi Garcia have come in just a few weeks. Spain meanwhile have not displayed the attacking flair of France but they are playing the possession-based football that carried them to the country’s only World Cup triumph, in South Africa in 2010. Lamine Yamal of Barcelona, who turns 19 next week, is Spain’s standout attacker but he arrived in the United States after suffering a late-season injury and has seemed a peripheral figure at times, scoring just once in five games. Yamal, widely tipped to inherit the mantle of the world’s greatest player from Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, could be due a goal. “We know that the best version of him, the attacking Lamine, is something that we haven’t quite seen yet in this World Cup. Not to the level that we’re used to,” said Spain coach Luis de la Fuente. In Yamal’s absence, Mikel Oyarzabal has scored four times, including twice in the 3-0 defeat of Austria in the last 32 at SoFi. Spain have conceded just six shots on target in their five matches so far.
How to Watch Spain vs. Belgium: TV Channel, Live Stream, Live
Spain and Belgium meet in their 2026 FIFA World Cup quarterfinal on Friday, July 10, 2026 at 3:00 p.m. ET from Los Angeles Stadium.
Kylian Mbappé, Ousmane Dembélé fire France into World Cup semifinals with win over Morocco
Former U.S. men's team defender Jonathan Bornstein discusses FIFA's controversial decision to reverse Balogun's red card suspension, allowing him to play in the critical World Cup Round of 16 match. Bornstein explains why the call was ‘proper,’ contrasting it with the Norway coach's criticism.