Over in A Coru\u00f1a, Spain were bidding farewell to their home support with a 1-1 draw against fellow World Cup qualifiers, Iraq.<\/p>\n
Ferran Torres opened the scoring after being set up by Dani Olmo before Merchas Doski caught Joan Garcia off guard to level the tie.<\/p>\n
In the second half, Mikel Merino<\/strong> came on for Alex Baena in the 68th minute, taking the captain’s armband late on in the stalemate.<\/p>\n La Roja now head to Mexico for their final warm-up fixture, taking on Peru in Puebla.<\/p>\n \n Read more<\/span> <\/p>\n Away from the World Cup warm-ups, there was a special moment for our Hale End star Licensed O’Neill<\/strong> as the winger made his debut for the Northern Ireland first team.<\/p>\n The 18-year-old, who has featured in first-team squads during the 2025\/26 season, as well as impressing in Premier League 2 and the UEFA Youth League, was a second-half substitute in Northern Ireland’s narrow 1-0 win over Guinea.<\/p>\n Tom Atcheson netted the winner as O’Neill came on for Isaac Price in the 64th minute at the Estadio Municipal de la Linea de la Concepci\u00f3n in Cadiz, Spain.<\/p>\n O’Neill could be coming up against another one of our stars next week, as Northern Ireland head to the Stade Pierre-Mauroy to face France in Lille.<\/p>\n \n Read more<\/span> <\/p>\n Copyright 2026 The Arsenal Football Club Limited. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Viktor Gyokeres continued where he left of in the domestic season by netting in Sweden’s final warm-up game before the 2026 World Cup. Our Swedish striker showed off his prowess … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} When could our stars play in World Cup warm-ups? <\/span>
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Every Arsenal player called up for 2026 World Cup <\/span>
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