Group Stage - 8• 14 Oct 2025

Spain 4–0 Bulgaria

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Goals

35'

Mikel Merino

Assist: Robin Le Normand

57'

Mikel Merino

Assist: Alejandro Grimaldo

79'

Atanas Chernev

90+2'

Mikel Oyarzabal

Match Recap

Spain beat Bulgaria 4–0 in the World Cup - Qualification Europe (Group Stage - 8) on 14 October 2025. Spain saw more of the ball with 78% possession, and Spain had 33 shots (11 on target) to Bulgaria's 3 (0 on target). The expected-goals (xG) figures read 2.99 for Spain and 0.40 for Bulgaria. The goals came from Mikel Merino 35', Mikel Merino 57', Atanas Chernev 79', Mikel Oyarzabal 90+2'. Spain move up to 16 points in World Cup - Qualification Europe, having won 4 of their last 5. Relive the Spain vs Bulgaria World Cup - Qualification Europe highlights on Daily Goal: watch every goal and the full match below, free, with each strike timestamped so you can jump straight to the moment it happened.

Match Statistics

Spain

Bulgaria

78% Ball Possession 22%

2.99 Expected goals (xG) 0.40

33 Total Shots 3

11 Shots on target 0

12 Shots off target 3

10 Blocked Shots 0

24 Shots inside box 2

9 Shots outside box 1

11 Corner Kicks 0

3 Offsides 0

7 Fouls 6

— Yellow Cards —

— Red Cards —

0 Goalkeeper Saves 8

817 Total passes 239

757 Accurate passes 175

93% Pass accuracy 73%

— Goals prevented —

Lineups

Spain

Luis de la Fuente Castillo 4-2-3-1

Bulgaria

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23Simon

17Grimaldo 10Laporte 3Le Normand 12Porro

20Pedri 18Zubimendi

16Baena 6Merino 21Oyarzabal

19Samu

11Despodov

17Minchev

23Shopov

4Gruev

14Krastev

10Kirilov

20Georgiev

15Hristov

3Chernev

22Velkovski

21Vutsov

Substitutes — Spain

1D. Raya 13A. Remiro 2J. de Frutos 4P. Cubarsi 5D. Vivian 7Y. Pino 8A. Garcia 9B. Iglesias 11J. Rodriguez 14M. Llorente 15P. Barrios 22M. Cucurella

Substitutes — Bulgaria

1D. Mitov 13D. Sheytanov 2H. Petrov 5K. Dimitrov 6V. Popov 7Z. Dimitrov 8A. Kraev 9V. Nikolov 12R. Bozhinov 16M. Petkov 18I. Chochev 19K. Stoyanov