{"id":253042,"date":"2026-07-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/15\/spain-cruises-to-world-cup-final-awaits-winner-of-england-vs-argentina-the-gist\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T00:00:00","slug":"spain-cruises-to-world-cup-final-awaits-winner-of-england-vs-argentina-the-gist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/15\/spain-cruises-to-world-cup-final-awaits-winner-of-england-vs-argentina-the-gist\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain cruises to World Cup final, awaits winner of England vs. Argentina | The GIST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>The GIST: <\/strong>With one semifinal down and one to go, this World Cup (WC) is feeling like a show we binged too fast and don\u2019t want to end. Here\u2019s what you need to know as we race towards this Sunday\u2019s grand finale.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddf8 Spain blanks France 2\u20130 to reach second-ever World Cup Final:<\/strong> The grand European duel fans expected never materialized as <em>La Roja<\/em> outclassed <em>Les Bleus<\/em> and secured the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6512938\/2026\/07\/14\/england-world-cup-semi-finals-rest-days\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">highly coveted first-title-game berth<\/a>. What a gift for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DawB0SIvs4D\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">birthday boy Lamine Yamal<\/a>, who will try to ink his name on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/stories\/soccer\/lamine-yamal-reaches-world-cup-final-19-how-old-were-pele-maradona-messi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">exclusive list of teenage World Cup winners<\/a> come Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\ud83c\udff4\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc62\udb40\udc65\udb40\udc6e\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc7f England vs. \ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddf7 Argentina \u2014 Today at 3 p.m. ET:<\/strong> Both teams have lethal goalscorers. Jude Bellingham and Harry Kane combined for 12 of England\u2019s 13 total goals \u2014 the first time in a men\u2019s WC that teammates scored six or more times. Meanwhile, Argentina has 39-year-old Lionel Messi, who is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/stories\/soccer\/argentina-england-world-cup-semifinals-messi-bellingham-kane-preview#:~:text=Alongside%20Kylian%20Mbapp%C3%A9%2C%20Messi%20became%20the%20second%20player%20on%20record%20(since%201966)%20to%20earn%2010%20or%20more%20goal%20contributions%20in%20more%20than%20one%20World%20Cup.%C2%A0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">still breaking records<\/a> in his sixth WC yet is taking on England <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/story\/_\/id\/49350614\/world-cup-2026-semifinal-argentina-lionel-messi-first-match-england-record-vs-brazil-germany-italy-spain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">for the first time<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n  n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\n  n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n  t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\n  document,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '1716705275141133'); \/\/ Insert your pixel ID here.\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n      <\/script><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegistsports.com\/article\/spain-awaits-england-argentina\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The GIST: With one semifinal down and one to go, this World Cup (WC) is feeling like a show we binged too fast and don\u2019t want to end. Here\u2019s what you need to know as we race towards this Sunday\u2019s grand finale. \ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddf8 Spain blanks France 2\u20130 to reach second-ever World Cup Final: The grand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":253043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6805],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-253042","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-womens"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}