Portugal vs Spain live: Mendes strikes the crossbar in goalless World Cup showdown

According to France 24, Spain and Portugal are locked in a scoreless World Cup last-sixteen clash, with Portugal's Nuno Mendes rattling the crossbar in a match still waiting for its first goal. The Iberian showdown frames a generational contrast: eighteen-year-old prodigy Lamine Yamal for the European champions against forty-one-year-old Cristiano Ronaldo, who says he'll be, in his words, one thousand percent at peace with his career whatever the result.

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