The stadium (La Cartuja) will be the stage for a self-determination confrontation between Spain and Germany tomorrow, Tuesday, in order to qualify for the fourth group of the semi-finals of the European Nations League, in which the Spaniards will only have three points.
Although the German national team will have the biggest options in Tuesday's match after its 3-1 victory over Ukraine on Saturday in the fifth and penultimate round, and topping the group with 9 points, one point behind the "Matador", the two sides have their fate in their hands during the expected match .
The "Manschaft" enters the meeting and a tie, whether negative or positive, is sufficient to win the qualifying card directly for the golden square, while there is no alternative for coach Luis Enrique's men but to win in order to be among the Big Four for the first time, after their failure to skip the group stage stage in the first version. Past.
The Spaniards will face a difficult test, especially since the team suffers from the curse of injuries that struck the players, beginning since the announcement of the list of callers for the matches (Switzerland and Germany), or even after the friendly confrontation with Holland (1-1) last Wednesday, which witnessed the injury of left-back Jose Luis Gaya with a strong bruise. in the head.
Barcelona midfielder, Sergio Busquets, joined the list of injured people after he suffered a strong bruise during the Switzerland match, which caused his injury to sprain the left knee ligament, and thus confirmed his absence from the Germans, in addition to the most prominent absence of promising Barcelona winger Ansu Fati, who He was injured with his team in La Liga during the Real Betis match, and he underwent knee cartilage surgery and will be out of action for about 4 months.
Away from the instability in goalkeeping, after Athletic Bilbao goalkeeper Unai Simon participated in the last two matches as a starting point, and David de Gea was seated on the bench, things seem more stable in defense, led by captain Sergio Ramos, who led the scene during the Switzerland match, whether After he missed two penalty kicks that were enough to change the course of the match, or after he became the most player on the old continent with their teams with 177 matches, beating the record of the legend of the goalkeeper in Italy, Gianluigi Buffon.
On the other hand, things seem more stable within Germany after the great victory over Ukraine last Saturday (3-1), and led the group.
Despite the criticisms of Joachim Low, Germany's coach, for his frequent reliance on the policy of rotation between players during the recent period, Loew himself and the German Confederation confirmed their conviction with this idea, in order to preserve the players from a state of exhaustion due to successive matches, and to inject new blood that is gained Big tournament experiences.
Germany's formation is expected not to change during the Ukraine match, from the Spain match on Tuesday, with the exception of the absence of defender Antonio Rudiger due to the accumulation of yellow cards.
According to the current data of the two teams, the formation is expected to be the following:
Spain: Unai Simon, Sergi Roberto, Ramos, Pau Torres, Rigilon, Kuki, Canales, Mikel Merino, Fabian Ruiz, Gerard Moreno and Alvaro Morata.
Germany: Manuel Neuer, Matthias Ginter, Niklas Sule, Robin Koch, Philip Max, Leon Goritska, Toni Kroos, Ilkai Gundogan, Leroy Sani, Timo Werner and Sergey Gnabry.
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