Spain vs Germany: Early final reports expected

The quarter-finals of Euro 2024 will begin with a duel between the main favourites Spain and Germany, old acquaintances.

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BARCELONA — Spainwho will not lose an official match against Germany from Euro 1988, it is played in quarter finals editions 2024 year Stop the master’s curse at the most opportune moment.

This Friday in Stuttgart there will be a big match, a kind of early finishin which this will be the first match quarter finals between two rivals who know each other very well and who always need to settle scores.

Joselu, who has just left Real Madrid to sign for Al-Gharafa, has shown his confidence in bringing his former teammate Toni Kroos to an end, who has also left the Merengue club and announced his retirement at the end of the season. Euro 2024.

The striker started against Albania and will start the match on the bench for Spain, whose line-up appears to have minimal variations, the only doubt being the presence of Pedri or Dani Olmo in midfield and the accompanying Rodri and Fabian Ruiz at the back.

In Germany, where, like La Roja, there are no injuries, no surprises are expected in the eleven, which will see the return of central defender Jonathan Tah after suspension, hardly doubting the presence of Florian Wirtz or Leroy Sane on one side of the midfield, along with Ilkay Gündogan and Jamal Musiala.

Unbeaten in eight games played in 2024 (six wins and two draws), Mannschaft’s football image during the championship never achieved the expected ringing and even less the degree of solvency that was hastily suspected when it debuted… crushing Scotland.

Their draw with Switzerland, with which they ended the group stage, revealed certain weaknesses of the team that were not hidden despite the victory in the last 16 against Denmark, a match that was heavily influenced by VAR and the outcome of which left as much trace of discontent with the “Red Dynamite” as a sense of relief among the Germans.

In pure football terms, Spain have given Germany a run for their money in this Eurocup so far. They have triumphed over Croatia, enjoyed and suffered against Italy, kept their distance against Albania and boasted against Georgia with a miraculous comeback that has put them in the spotlight.

ETERNAL DUEL
Among the survivors who will compete in the quarter-finals, the Latin American team is noted as the team that has played the best football since the start of the tournament, but that letter of recommendation is not an indisputable safe passage to the semi-finals.

Austria, having failed to progress, earned universal praise in the group stage… and lost to Turkey in a huge round of 16 match, while England reached the quarter-finals almost by chance, clinging to luck and playing excellent football between bad and mediocre.

Nothing will be taken into account from this Friday, when the Germans and the Spaniards meet again in Stuttgart, in the 28th encounter since on May 12, 1935, at the old Müngersdorfer Stadium in Cologne, they met each other for the first time in a friendly match presided over by the Nazi swastika and a verdict in favor of Spain with two goals from the legendary Isidro Langara.

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 favourable to the Germans: nine wins to the Spaniards’ eight and ten draws.