France U23 Statistics
U23 France went through a challenging journey to reach this final. The home team of the Paris Olympics uses a diamond formation in a 4-3-3 or 4-3-1-2 formation, with 2 strikers and 1 player playing as the number 10 right behind.
U23 France has shown special attacking power at the 2024 Paris Olympics. They lead men's football with total shots (96 times) and total crosses (103 times). They dominated the first-to-one dribbles, with 200 successful dribbles and leading the number of touches in the penalty area with 132 times.
Strengthen and Weakness
U23 France showed impressive strength at this year's Olympics when scoring 11 goals in 5 matches - an extraordinary achievement. They are the team that scored the most goals in the tournament - equal to Spain U23.
Henry's side have an even force, with excellent attackers such as Alexandre Lacazette, Jean Mateta, Michael Olise, Rayan Cherki and Arnaud kalimuendo.
Among them, Michael Olise is a star player of France U23 at this year's Olympics. At the Olympics, he played as a No. 10, scored 2 goals and had 4 assists. This achievement puts him 4th in goals, 1st in assists and 1st in total goals and assists with 6 goals.
In general, U23 France has almost no weaknesses when conceding exactly 1 goal since the beginning of the tournament. However, the pressure to play at their best at home may affect the psychology of Olise and his teammates.
Spain U23 Statistics
Spain also had to go through a challenging journey to reach the final. They have overcome U23 Japan and U23 Morocco in the knockout round to get a ticket to the gold medal match.
In theory and in the process of deploying the ball, Spain used a 4-2-3-1 formation, but also switched between a 4-3-3 formation.
Spain U23 has proven its strong attacking ability at the 2024 Paris Olympics. They ranked 4th in the number of shots with 68 and 2nd in the number of crosses with 94. In addition, the team from the Philippines also had 88 touches in the penalty area.
U23 Spain has scored 11 goals since the beginning of the tournament, but has also conceded 5 goals.
Strengths and weaknesses of Spain U23
Spanish teams are always excellent in training players with skillful techniques and intelligence when holding the ball. This tournament once again saw another generation of Spanish talent expected to join the official national team.
Spain's strength is their ability to keep the ball and tiring their opponents with their ability to rotate the ball effectively. A big advantage for Spain U23 is that most of the players are playing in the world's top tournaments.
Their notable players include: Juan Miranda, Pau Cubarsi, Eric Garcia, Pablo Barrios, Sergio Gomez and Fermin Lopez, all of whom have a lot of experience in LaLiga.
However, the main weakness of this U23 Spain is their defensive focus at some points. They have conceded in every match of the tournament, except for the quarter-final against U23 Japan.
In the Spain U23 squad, Fermin Lopez is a key player. The Barcelona midfielder has scored 4 goals and had 1 assist at this year's Olympics.
In general, Fermin Lopez is a versatile and comprehensive midfielder, contributing significantly to both attack and defence, helping him become a mainstay of the Spanish team and Barcelona club in the future.
The U23 France vs U23 Spain match will take place at 23:00 on August 9.
