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Emergency services say they have contained spread of blaze that has scorched more than 4000 hectares.

In Spain, 493 fires destroyed a record 307,000 hectares of land, according to the commission’s European Forest Fire Information System. However, they said they had managed to stop the fire spreading to other areas. Residents recounted fleeing their houses and leaving animals behind.

Best known until now for coaching Spain's youth teams, De la Fuente didn't have to deal with Norway's striker Erling Haaland, who missed the game with a groin ...

Havertz missed a penalty in the second half. Luka Modrić, still playing for his country at age 37, played in Ivan Perišić to a good position late on but the Tottenham midfielder hit the crossbar. Hansi Flick and his team don't have to go through qualifying because Germany is the host nation of the European Championship next year. Scotland is aiming to qualify for consecutive European Championships for the first time since 1996. For Norway, it was a frustrating reminder of the difference Haaland can make. Best known until now for coaching Spain's youth teams, De la Fuente didn't have to deal with Norway's striker Erling Haaland, who missed the game with a groin injury.

Dani Olmo and two goals from the debutant Joselu helped Spain start their Euro 2024 qualifying campaign with a 3-0 victory at home to Norway.

An old man had won it for a new team, where 16 of those who had been to the World Cup were no longer even in the squad and only four of the players who began Spain’s last game started. The game tilted Norway’s way, Ødegaard playing and pointing, not just seeing the pass he had to make but the passes everyone else did too. Spain had started well, one of those four repeat starters giving them an early lead when Mikel Merino chased a lost cause, keeping the ball in play on the right. And so it was that a sometimes nervy opening night for new coach Luis de la Fuente ended with the selección securing a 3-0 win over a After he had reached Fabián Ruiz’s clever cross to nod in the first with six minutes left, just 149 seconds since he had come on, Joselu had stood by the centre circle holding his head barely able to believe itr. Sent on with eight minutes left, the 32-year-old striker born in Germany and raised in Galicia, a veteran of 10 clubs across three countries including Newcastle and Stoke, was only two minutes into his first game when he scored the goal that finally secured victory for Spain and three minutes into it when he got his second.

The fire scorches more than 4000 hectares of forest, forcing 1700 villagers to leave their homes.

Our animals were there, and no one can tell us anything," Antonio Zarzoso, 24, who had to leave the village of Puebla de Arenoso, told Reuters. "Bad, how am I supposed to feel? Spain's first major wildfire of the year scorched more than 4,000 hectares of forest and forced 1,700 villagers to leave their homes in the Valencia and Aragon regions.

De la Fuente named Alejandro Balde and Gavi in his starting XI, with Alvaro Morata and Iago Aspas also getting the nod.

Joselu nodded home to make it 2-0 and then scored again from close range after Oyarzabal had a shot blocked on the line. Yeremy Pino replaced Olmo and missed the chance to make it 2-0 before Strand Larsen should have equalized but fired wide. The teenager fired in a cross-cum-shot which Olmo flicked home from close range.

About 700 firefighters were battling Spain's first major forest fire of the year, which on Saturday was out of control 48 hours after it began, ...

“Seven hundred people have been mobilised for the operation (to fight the fire). They said the wildfire remained “very voracious” and the work to put it out “very complicated”. [Spain's](https://www.thenationalnews.com/tags/spain/) first major forest fire of the year, which on Saturday was out of control 48 hours after it began, forcing 1,500 people to flee their homes.