Spain 3-0 Austria Player Ratings: Pedro Porro 9.0/10 First International Goal Seals Spain's Commanding Round-of-32 Victory Over Austria

Los Angeles Stadium delivered a composed and controlled European champions' performance as the Spain national football team claimed a comprehensive 2-0 round-of-32 victory over Ralf Rangnick's disciplined Austria side, becoming the first nation in history to win seven successive World Cup matches against European opposition. For fans tracking Spain's tournament history, this result ends a deeply uncomfortable cycle. La Roja had been eliminated on penalties in their previous two FIFA World Cup knockout appearances against Russia in 2018 and Morocco in 2022, making this clean-sheet progression the most important statement of collective confidence and tactical authority De la Fuente's side have produced at this stage of the competition.

Pedro Porro was the outstanding individual performer throughout, his constant overlapping runs down the right creating consistent width problems for the Austria national football team's organised defensive structure, before he delivered the decisive 66th-minute headed goal that put the contest entirely beyond Rangnick's side. His composed timing and precise redirection of Baena's perfectly delivered cutback from the byline not only provided his first-ever international goal but ended any lingering doubt about whether Spain would safely advance.

Oyarzabal's composed 36th-minute opener, receiving Cucurella's precise roll across the face of goal and sweeping a composed left-footed finish past Schlager from close range, extended his extraordinary international scoring record to 15 goals since the start of 2025, a tally bettered among European players only by Erling Haaland's 22. The Real Sociedad forward's consistent ability to arrive in the right position at the decisive moment remains the defining reason Spain's attacking system functions so efficiently and consistently.

Austria's organised and defensively disciplined performance, particularly in the first half when Rangnick's side limited Spain to relatively few genuine clear-cut opportunities despite the European champions' 70-plus percent possession, confirmed that Rangnick's tactical organisation had genuinely threatened to produce one of the knockout stage's most significant upsets before Porro's headed second removed the last traces of Austrian optimism from an increasingly one-sided contest. La Roja added a third goal from a beautiful low pass from Cucurella to Mikel Oyarzabal, who completed his outing with a brace. Check out the Spain vs Austria player ratings.

Spain National Football Team Player Ratings vs Austria

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Austria National Football Team Player Ratings vs Spain

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Man of the Match

Pedro Porro was Sportsdunia's Man of the Match.

Worst Performer

Michael Gregoritsch was the worst performer.