Unai Simón – Carvajal, Le Normand, Laporte, Cucurella – Fabian Ruiz – Yamal, Morata, N. Williams. That is how the Spanish nationwide workforce stood up within the second spherical In a 1-0 win towards Italy.
Raya – Navas, Vivian, Laporte, Grimaldo – Zubimendi, Merino – Ferran Torres, Olmo, Oyarzabal – Joselu. This Spanish newbie is it In opposition to Albania in Monday night time’s recreation.
Aymeric Laporte (Photograph: AFP)
Just one particular person remained within the beginning eleven: Aymeric Laporte, the middle again of Saudi al-Nassr.
The choice of nationwide workforce captain Luis de la Fuente is comprehensible, because the Spaniards are positively group leaders whatever the outcomes of the third spherical. So why would they drive, and also you additionally should watch out with yellow playing cards. In fact, usually, not solely Spanish B, but additionally C, D are higher than Albania. The query is whether or not those that enter the sphere need to show this.
In fact, it would not harm to watch out. A 12 months and a half in the past, in an analogous scenario on the World Cup in Qatar, Brazil misplaced 1-0 to Cameroon and Portugal 2-1 to South Korea within the third spherical, after which each groups had been eradicated within the quarter-finals.
It will be favorable for the Hungarian nationwide workforce if the Spaniards didn’t lose to Albania, and Croatia didn’t win towards Italy both. On this case, the third place wouldn’t be assured three factors.
