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You may be interested in:<\/a><\/strong>RD stood up well against Uruguay<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nDespite the absences of several key players, the Spanish team dominated the match from start to finish with intense, associative, and vertical<\/strong> football, against a Georgia that could barely generate danger.\n\nThe first goal came in the 24th minute, when Yeremy Pino<\/strong> took advantage of a brilliant collective play initiated by Pedri<\/strong> and assisted by Le Normand<\/strong>, beating the Georgian goalkeeper Giorgi Mamardashvili<\/strong>.\n\nMinutes later, Ferran Torres<\/strong> had the opportunity to extend the lead from the penalty spot, but Mamardashvili<\/strong> stopped the shot with a great intervention, keeping his team alive until halftime.\n\nIn the second half, Spain maintained their dominance with several clear chances from Oyarzabal<\/strong> and Pedro Porro<\/strong>, frustrated by the crossbar and the inspired Georgian goalkeeper. The long-awaited second goal arrived in the 63rd minute, when Mikel Oyarzabal<\/strong> precisely executed a free kick from the edge of the area to seal the score.\n\nWith the result under control, Luis de la Fuente<\/strong> took the opportunity to rotate his team, giving minutes to players such as Borja Iglesias, Marcos Llorente, Aleix Garc\u00eda and Pablo Barrios<\/strong>, who responded with solvency.\n\nThe Spanish team lowered the intensity in the final stretch, managing their advantage against a Georgia that found no offensive answers.\n\nWith this result, Spain adds a new victory that consolidates it as the leader of Group E<\/strong>, getting closer and closer to securing its presence in the 2026 World Cup<\/strong>.\n\n\n Elche, Spain.. The Spanish national football team took another firm step towards qualifying for the 2026 World Cup, by convincingly defeating 2-0 Georgia at the Mart\u00ednez Valero stadium in Elche. With this victory, the team led by Luis de la Fuente consolidates its leadership in Group E and maintains its undefeated streak in the qualifying […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":486394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[40943],"tags":[611,40231,40300,40853],"class_list":["post-486393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-deultimominuto","tag-dominican-republic","tag-soccer","tag-thetruthnewspaper"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-22x3","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/Espana-Georgia-1.jpeg","dum_api":{"author_name":"EFE","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1200px-EFE_logo.svg-96x96.png","categories_name":["Football"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/Espana-Georgia-1.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n\n\n\nUpcoming Meetings<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\nSpain will visit Slovakia<\/strong> in the next qualifying match, while Georgia<\/strong> will seek to recover at home against Cyprus<\/strong>.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"