Sport Issued on: 06/07/2026 - 23:05Modified: 06/07/2026 - 23:10 1 min Reading time By: Spain's Mikel Merino celebrates scoring the opener against Portugal. © Kai Pfaffenbach, Reuters Mikel Merino scored an injury-time winner as European champions Spain beat Iberian rivals Portugal in a tense last-16 encounter to book a place in the quarter-finals and end Cristiano Ronaldo's World Cup career. Merino broke the deadlock in the first minute of time added on at the AT&T Stadium outside Dallas to send the Spaniards into a last-eight clash against either Belgium or the United States in Los Angeles on Friday. Read moreWorld Cup 2026: All the fixtures Keywords for this article