Eleven months after a 2-1 defeat at Euro 2024, the French team finds Spain, “Certainly the best European, even global team at the moment” Dixit Didier Deschamps, next Thursday, June 5, in Stuttgart, in the semi-finals of the League of Nations. It is the very beautiful poster between the Blues and Kylian Mbappé and the Roja of the phenomenal Lamine Yamal, which will lead to a final or a match for third place against Germany or Portugal (which compete in the other half on Wednesday 4).
Reigning European champion and therefore in the running to win the League of Nations, Spain led by Luis de la Fuente is not one of the “favorites” for a direct 2026 World Cup qualification in Canada, the United States and Mexico. The eliminations in the UEFA zone began in March but the teams of the Final Four of the League of Nations inherited a group of four and will play their six matches at the international windows in next September, October and November.
X account We Global Football only gives Spain to finish at the top of its group, while statistical calculations give 90% chance to Austria, the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany to qualify directly for the World Cup 26! The French team also appears in danger according to We Global Football Since the Blues have 60% chance of finishing first in their hen (in front of Ukraine in particular).
Spain facing heavy!
Group E of European qualifications at the 2026 World Cup is a bit complicated for Spain, this is the case to say. Robin Le Normand, Aymeric Laporte and their teammates will start on September 4 against Bulgaria but will chain with a shock against Turkey in Konya, three days later. The Turks are the great outsiders of this hen, led by Hakan çalhanoglu, Arda Güler and Kenan Yildiz. And the third opponent is the Georgia of Khvicha Kvaratskhelia (and Georges Mikautadze). Nothing says that the select will not tremble next fall.
If Spain does not win its group of playoffs to obtain its direct qualification at the next North American World Cup, it will be drafted for the dams of March 2024. Four Final Four will be organized for so many additional tickets. The format was fatal in Italy in 2022, a few months before the World Cup in Qatar. The Nazionale had been eliminated in its semi-final against the North Macedonia and had not even faced Portugal afterwards.
