Overview
Spain continued their fine form with a 2-1 win over Denmark in their most recent match, with Mikel Oyarzabal and Ayoze Perez scoring for the EURO 2024 champions.
This is also La Roja's 5th consecutive unbeaten match in this year's Nations League (4 wins, 1 draw). They have officially won the top spot in Group 4 League A with 1 match early. Overall, coach Luis de la Fuente's team has been unbeaten in 15 consecutive matches, including 7 wins that helped them win the EURO 2024 title.
Meanwhile, Switzerland were relegated after a 1-1 draw with Serbia. This was the result of disappointing performances from coach Murat Yakin's team in this year's Nations League. They lost 3 and drew 2 after 5 matches. Switzerland also scored only 4 goals and conceded 11.
With Spain having completed their goal, De la Fuente is likely to give starting opportunities to young players and newcomers such as Aitor Paredes, Oscar Mingueza, Pau Curbasi, Marc Casado, Samu Aghehowa or Bryan Zaragoza. These are all promising names and this La Roja squad is still rated much higher than Switzerland.
In the 26 previous meetings, Spain showed their dominance by defeating Switzerland 19 times and losing only 2 matches. In the most recent match in the second round of the Nations League, La Roja, despite losing a man from the 20th minute, still defeated Switzerland 4-1. It is likely that the EURO 2024 champions will continue their triumphant streak.
Human resources situation
De la Fuente fielded a less-than-strong line-up for the win over Denmark, with players such as Morata and Nico Williams expected to return to the starting line-up.
On the other side of the front line, Yakin could also conduct some experiments with the lineup. Dan Ndoye, Denis Zakaria, Manuel Akanji and Nico Elvedi are all certain to miss out due to injury.
Expected lineup:
Spain: Raya, Porro, Vivian, Laporte, Cucurella, Zubimendi, Ruiz, Olmo, Pedri, N. Williams, Morata.
Switzerland: Kobel, Widmer, Hajdari, Comert, Rodriguez, Freuler, Xhaka, Amdouni, Rieder, Aebischer, Embolo.
The match between Spain and Switzerland takes place at 2:45 a.m. on November 19 (Vietnam time).