“La Furia Roja” met, and even surpassed, the most optimistic expectations. Having already won the Nations League under the leadership of de la Fuente, the team simply steamrolled all opponents – only Germany was beaten in extra time.
Finally, they managed to win the Euro. “The Eagles” limited themselves to a couple of draws and a failure in the struggle with England, and logically did not make it to the play-offs.
At the same time, the outsider was able to hold out at a 0-0 draw in the opening round of the Nations League. For this, the Spanish footballers rehabilitated themselves in Switzerland, defeating the hosts with a 4-1 result.
And Stojkovic’s wards did not respond to a couple of goals scored by the hosts in Denmark.
For this training camp, de la Fuente was left, for various reasons, without Unai Simon, Carvajal, Le Normand, Jesus Navas, Nacho, Gaya, Dani Olmo, Rodri, Pepelu, Ferran Torres, Fermin Lopez, Ayoze Perez, and Williams dropped out at the last moment.
Moreover, this list can be continued – nevertheless, the squad is still powerful. It managed to win the battle against the Danes thanks to the only goal scored by Zubimendi in the second half, but after that, Lamine Yamal was allowed to return to the club. The Serbs were left without Tadic, who had left with a scandal, and the injured performer, Milinković-Savić, and there will also be no Kostic, Glavinovich and Vlahovic.
The team was lucky in the meeting with Switzerland – it opened the score due to an own goal before “the locker room”, but, that is the most important, beat the main rival – 2-0.
Spain vs Serbia: possible starting line-ups
Spain (possible line-up): Raya – Grimaldo, Laporte, Vivian, Porro – Fabian Ruiz, Zubimendi, Oyarzabal, Pedri, Zaragoza – Morata.
