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Mariona Caldentey pulled the strings as Spain rose to the top of FIFA Women\u2019s World Cup qualifying Group C with style on Friday.<\/p>\n
Our Spanish midfielder provided the assists for Spain\u2019s first two goals of the 4-0 win over England, scored by Patricia Guijarro and Alexia Putellas. <\/p>\n
The latter got her second after half-time and Claudia Pina made it four on home soil to go level on points with England, but ahead on goal difference.<\/p>\n
Mariona played 85 minutes of the match, having done a great job in midfield, while Lotte Wubben-Moy<\/strong> got 84 minutes for the Lionesses and Alessia Russo<\/strong> played the full 90.<\/p>\n Chloe Kelly<\/strong> came off the bench in the 59th minute.<\/p>\n Elsewhere in World Cup qualifying, Smilla Holmberg<\/strong> and Stina Blackstenius<\/strong> played 90 and 83 minutes respectively of Sweden\u2019s 2-1 defeat away to Denmark on Friday.<\/p>\n That loss left Sweden third in Group A with seven points, one point behind Italy – who they face on Tuesday – and four shy of Denmark.<\/p>\n At youth level, Laila Harbert<\/strong> came off the bench to score a 90th-minute winner for England under-20s in their 1-0 friendly win over Canada in Pinatar. Cecily Wellesley-Smith <\/strong>also came on in the 63rd minute, while Jessie Gale <\/strong>played 76 minutes and and Vivienne Lia <\/strong>came on for the final 14.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Copyright 2026 The Arsenal Football Club Limited. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mariona Caldentey pulled the strings as Spain rose to the top of FIFA Women\u2019s World…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}