{"id":3494,"date":"2026-06-16T07:20:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T07:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=3494"},"modified":"2026-06-16T07:20:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T07:20:41","slug":"world-cup-2026-spain-0-0-cape-verde-key-stats-from-debutants-incredible-draw-in-atlanta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=3494","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026: Spain 0-0 Cape Verde &#8211; key stats from debutants&#8217; incredible draw in Atlanta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Spain have form for making poor starts to World Cups.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They have only won their first match in three of their past 15 appearances, drawing five and losing seven.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One of those seven defeats, however, came in 2010 &#8211; when they went on to lift the trophy for the first time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It has been a lean period for the country at World Cups since then, though.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A group-stage exit in 2014 was followed by successive losses in the last 16 in 2018 and 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They have played 12 matches since beating the Netherlands in the 2010 final but have only won three times.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spain have form for making poor starts to World Cups. They have only won their first match in three of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}