This Tuesday evening in Europe, several qualifying matches for the 2026 World Cup took place. Here are the key results!Group E: Spain Moves Closer to the World CupA comfortable 4-0 win for Spain

Italy haven't been to the World Cup since 2014, which is why their road through qualification has felt especially stressful. But Tuesday night's win over Israel is a welcome confidence boost.

Italy's chances of achieving automatic qualification to the 2026 World Cup are slim, but Gennaro Gattuso is determined to reach the finals.

Italy national team captain Gianluigi Donnarumma insists that there are ‘no doubts’ Italy will qualify for the 2026 World Cup, despite being set for a third consecutive appearance in the

Italy manager Gennaro Gattuso said he may have to live in exile if the Azzurri do not qualify for the World Cup for the third consecutive time.

Now England have booked their place at the 2026 World Cup attention turns to how they might fare in North America next summer - and how some of their rivals are looking.

Despite the fact that Italy hadn't sat out a World Cup since 1958, the play-off loss to Sweden in November 2017 didn't actually come as that much of a surprise, given how badly the team had been performing under the hopelessly out-of-his-depth Gian Piero Ventura.

Despite the World Cup expanding to 48 teams, high-stakes matches this week could leave some of the world's biggest teams on the outside looking in