The quarter-finals of Euro 2024 begin with the duel between favorites Spain and Germany, an old acquaintance
BARCELONA — Spainwill not lose an official game against Germany from the Euro of 1988, it is played in the quarter finals of the edition 2024 End your host curse at the best possible moment.
Stuttgart host a top-flight tie this Friday, for some sort ended earlyin which it will be the first game of quarter finals between two rivals who know each other well, and who always have scores to settle.
Joselu, who has just signed Real Madrid to sign for Al Gharafa, expressed his confidence in the retirement of his former teammate Toni Kroos, who also left the merengue club and announced his retirement at the end of the seasons. Euro 2024.
HISTORY OF SPAIN VS GERMANY
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The striker started against Albania and will start the game on the bench for a Spaniard who seems to have little variation, with the only doubt being the presence of Pedri or Dani Olmo in the central position field with Rodri and Fabián Ruiz joining him behind the front. .
In Germany, which has no injuries, like La Roja, no surprises are expected in the eleven that will return the main player Jonathan Tah after his suspended game, without doubt at the moment Florian Wirtz or Leroy Sané on one side of the center of the park. . along with Ilkay Gündogan and Jamal Musiala.
Without affecting the eight games played in 2024 (six wins and two draws), the football image of the Mannschaft has not been achieved during the championship, however, the expected level of solvency is less than that and even less than that amount of solvency that was suspected, promptly, when it was debuted. .
Their draw against Switzerland with which they closed the group stage revealed certain weaknesses in the team, which were not hidden despite their round of 16 defeat against Denmark, a game that was very conditional on the VAR and left as many that marks his result. dissatisfaction with the Red Dynamite as a sense of relief among the Germans.
In terms of football, pure and simple, Spain have, at the moment, given Germany a run for their money in this Euro Cup. They swept Croatia to solemnity, knew how to enjoy and suffer against Italy, reserved themselves against Albania and showed off against Georgia, with a great comeback that put them in the center of all eyes .
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Luis de la Fuente spoke after the 4-1 win over Georgia and the move to the quarter-finals of the Euro Cup
‘We suffered because of the uncertainty of the result, not because they were creating a danger for us,’ said the Spanish coach.
DUEL Eternal
Among the survivors who will compete in the quarterfinals, the Hispanic team is noted as the one that has developed the best soccer since the beginning of the tournament, but this letter of introduction is not at all a safe passage to the semi-finals.
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Austria won, without further ado, general applause in the group… And fell to Turkey in a huge round of 16 and England reached the quarter-finals almost by chance, clinging to fortune and after showing great football between poor and modest.
Nothing will count from this Friday when Germans and Spaniards cross paths again in Stuttgart, in the 28th duel since May 12, 1935, in the Old Müngersdorfer Stadion in Cologne, they faced each other for the first time, in a friendly game about the chairmanship of the. Nazi swastika and sentence in favor of Spain with two goals from the legendary Isidro Lángara.
Since then there have been 27 meetings between the two teams (one of them, in February 1988, against the GDR) and the balance is slightly in favor of the Germans, with nine wins to the Spaniards’ eight and ten draws.