The last team break before the World Cup in Qatar hosts the outcome of the group stage of the UEFA Nations League. Spain is in Group 2 of League A of this recently created competition, and they want to repeat their presence in the final four next June.
The team led by Luis Enrique receives this Saturday, September 24, 2022, Switzerland at the La Romareda stadium, in Zaragoza, starting at 8:45 p.m. A match that corresponds to the fifth and penultimate day of the group stage and that can be seen on television on La1 de Televisión Española and also be followed live and online through the La Vanguardia website.
Spain leads its group at the moment, with a point advantage over Portugal. A scenario that opens the possibility that the red one already seals his passport to fight for the title this Saturday if there is a combination of results. The pool is easy: Spain must beat Switzerland and Portugal must lose to the Czech Republic. If this is not the case, on Tuesday in Braga, the Portuguese and Spanish have all the numbers to play for their passport.
With less than two months to go until the opening of the World Cup, Luis Enrique must begin to define his squad for Qatar and these two games, against Switzerland and Portugal, are a test for the vast majority of footballers, who have not yet secured their presence in the desert.
On his return almost 20 years later to La Romareda, Spain is aware that he is going to find a tough opponent to crack. Although Switzerland is at the bottom of the group, it has always shown itself to be a very brave team with a granite block. The red already suffered it in the last European Championship, in which they met the Swiss in the quarterfinals, in a duel played in Saint Petersburg, when only on penalties was they able to obtain their pass to the semifinals. More distant is the defeat in the first game of the 2010 World Cup, although that memory is more than pleasant despite losing because of how the film ended.
In the four days of the Nations League played so far, Spain, current runner-up in the tournament, has won two draws, against Portugal at Benito Villamarín and against the Czech Republic in Prague, and two wins, against Switzerland in Geneva and against the Republic Czech in Malaga.
