Here is a look at the newspaper player ratings for Spain 2-1 Belgium<\/strong> in their World Cup 2026 quarterfinal. Spain won and advanced to a semifinal meeting against France, who had seen off Morocco 2-0 in QF1.<\/p>\n L\u2019Equipe player ratings Spain vs Belgium World Cup 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n Belgium defended resolutely until a late mistake from Man United goalkeeper Senne Lammens<\/strong> (coming on as an injury sub for Courtois) allowed Arsenal\u2019s Mikel Merino score the winner for Spain. Merino had also scored a late goal against Portugal, and he seems to have become Spain\u2019s super sub off the bench at this World Cup.<\/p>\n Ex-Chelsea and now Real Madrid LB Cucurella and Arsenal\u2019s Trossard got the same player rating (5) from L\u2019Equipe.<\/p>\n Vanaken and De Cuyper struggled for Belgium. Vanaken was a late introduction into the XI after the injury withdrawal of Youri Tielemans.<\/p>\n Diario AS player ratings Spain 2-1 Belgium WC QF 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n The likes of Vanaken, Kevin de Bruyne and replacement goalie Lammens not even deemed worthy of a rating by Spanish paper Diario AS.<\/p>\n Three stars for Merino off the bench- the only player on either side to get it.<\/p>\n Corriere dello Sport player ratings ESP 2-1 BEL<\/strong><\/p>\n Finally we come to ratings from Italian sports newspaper CdS for the game.<\/p>\n Here is a look at the newspaper player ratings for Spain 2-1 Belgium in their…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16516","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=16516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Spain](\"https:\/\/www.soccer-blogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Spain-vs-Belgium-2026-Player-Ratings-LEquipe.jpg\")
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