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Yamal scores first World Cup goal as Spain bounce back with thumping win over Saudi Arabia

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Yamal scores first World Cup goal as Spain bounce back with thumping win over Saudi Arabia

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The European champions put their shock opening draw against Cape Verde behind them with a crushing 4-0 defeat of Saudi Arabia on Sunday to move top of Group H and get their World Cup campaign back on track. Lamine Yamal needed just 10 minutes of his first start on football’s biggest stage to get his first goal.

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Spain's Lamine Yamal celebrates after scoring his first goal at a World Cup.

Spain’s Lamine Yamal celebrates after scoring his first goal at a World Cup. © Butch Dill, AP

Yamal, still only 18, slid in at the far post to touch home a low cross and put Spain 1-0 up against Saudi Arabia in Atlanta.

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Mikel Oyarzabal, who was criticized for not touching the ball at all in the first 30 minutes of Spain‘s draw with Cape Verde, not only provided the assist for Yamal, but scored two more goals — in the 21st and 24th.

Spain’s lead was so dominant by halftime that Yamal and Oyarzabal were both taken off before the start of the second half.

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