Spain wants to eliminate a candidate

Spain wants to eliminate a candidate

The Spanish team seeks to touch the round of 16 of the World Cup in Qatar with a victory against an 'injured' Germany and on the brink of the abyss

MADRID, 26 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Spanish soccer team will seek this Sunday (8:00 p.m./La 1) to touch the achievement of the ticket for the round of 16 of the World Cup in Qatar, an objective for which it needs to add its second victory by beating an 'injured' Germany and on the verge of abyss and also avoid other types of emergencies.

Spain signed a World Cup premiere to remember. He scared any 'ghost of the past' and left a great match against Costa Rica, which he disarmed from start to finish to achieve a 7-0 that serves as a boost to the spirit and confidence of a team that offered a very good game.

Hours before that exhibition, the German team, four-time world champion, extended the nightmare in which it is plunged from Russia. There, she made history, negatively, by not passing the group stage as the current champion, and at her start in Qatar she could not avoid another defeat, against Japan, which complicates her future and forces her to react to the 'Red'.

Germany is 'injured' and that surely makes it more dangerous for Luis Enrique Martínez's team, which despite the resounding victory finds itself facing an unforeseen scenario and which could also complicate the path to the crossroads if they are defeated.

Both will be watching the Costa Rica-Japan game, which will be played before their match. More surely those of Hansi Flick, who know that if the 'ticos' don't win, a second defeat would send them home again before their time. If Luis Fernando Suárez's men do not win, victory would put Spain into the round of 16.

And the triple European champion arrives at this demanding exam that can gauge her options full of good spirits. The victory and the debut game have further strengthened a hungry group that knows the importance that will be at stake against a 'Mannschaft' that no longer scares as before, but that has a lot of quality and a very similar philosophy.

In fact, the 'Red' has not lost its last three games against this rival, with two draws and, above all, the remembered 6-0 of the League of Nations 20-21 at La Cartuja in Seville. In major competitions, the 1-0 victories in the EURO 2008 final and the 2010 World Cup semifinals also speak of a renewed rivalry and greater equality that should be reflected on the Al Bayt Stadium pitch where the Pressure and the fight for possession will be key.

Luis Enrique was very satisfied with the performance of his players against the Costa Rican team, but he also knows that now he will face a different rival, with many similarities and who will not wait for him near his area, but also with more doubts in his dressing room than in the Spaniard after recent results that have not been the best.

The Asturian coach must decide which is the best eleven to face this match, in which he will most likely introduce some novelties, mainly because he does not usually repeat the starting team during his stay on the bench of the national team and has the option of introducing novelties , especially behind and in attack through the middle with Gavi, Pedri and Busquets seems the most 'fixed'.

In this sense, the main doubts may be whether Luis Enrique keeps Rodri Hernández as center back or bets on a player more 'conditioned' to that position like Eric García to better hold his rival's dangerous combinative attack. Dani Carvajal is also emerging as a possible replacement on the right side of César Azpilicueta.

For his part, on the offensive front, Luis Enrique must decide if he insists with Marco Asensio as '9' or if he brings in Álvaro Morata, while the good game by Ferran Torres and Dani Olmo against Costa Rica could keep them ahead of the eleven from other options such as Pablo Sarabia, Nico Williams or Asensio himself.

As for Germany, Hansi Flick and his dressing room have insisted that they already know what they did wrong against Japan, a rival that, unlike Spain, gave them control of the game in the first half and against which they showed some defensive insecurity .

Thus, Joshua Kimmich could delay his position at right back, one of the positions where the 'Mannschaft' suffered the most against Japan, so Leon Goretzka and his physical power would enter the eleven to counteract one of the main virtues of the 'Red ' at the cost of sacrificing a striker like Thomas Müller.

Leroy Sané, a key piece and absent due to injury at the premiere, could return, although his ownership seems more complicated due to what his teammates at Bayern Serge Gnabry and the 'electric' and dangerous Jamal Musiala would remain.

SPAIN: Unai Simón; Carvajal, Eric Garcia, Laporte, Jordi Alba; Gavi, Busquets, Pedri; Dani Olmo, Morata and Ferran Torres.

GERMANY: New; Kimmich, Rüdiger, Schlotterbeck, Room; Goretzka, Gundogan; Gnabry, Müller, Musiala, and Havertz.

--ÁRBITRO: Danny Makkelie (HOL).

--ESTADIO: Al Bayt.

--TIME: 20.00/The 1-World Goal-Movistar.