The match of the day 4.09.2014

France – Spain

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Tonight a friendly match between France – Spain on Stade de France, starting at 22:00

France begins the series of friendly matches ahead of the 2016 European Championship against Spain. The French will not dispute any official match for two years because they will be the hosts of the European Championship in 2016.
Because France will be the host at the European Championship, they wil prepare intensively, also France had a  very good performance at the World Championship in Brazil, was defeated in the quarterfinals by Germany 1-0.

Three stars will be missing class this evening‘s in France national group: the striker Olivier Giroud from Arsenal, the midfielder Franck Ribery from Bayern Munich and Laurent Koscielny, all three are injured. The last match of France was  at the World Cup 2o14, they lost 1: 0 against the world champion Germany.

France last results:

04.07.14 WORLD CUP France Germania 0 : 1
30.06.14 WORLD CUP France Nigeria 2 : 0
25.06.14 WORLD CUP Ecuador France 0 : 0
20.06.14 WORLD CUP Switzerland France 2 : 5
15.06.14 WORLD CUP France Honduras 3 : 0
08.06.14 MEC France Jamaica 8 : 0
01.06.14 MEC France Paraguay 1 : 1
27.05.14 MEC France Norway 4 : 0
05.03.14 MEC France Olanda 2 : 0
19.11.13 CUP France Ucraina 3 : 0

On the other hand, Spain:

– is trying to recover after the failure from Brazil, the last results will be like a test for the European Championship qualifying campaign, Trophy conquered by the Iberian in 2008 and Spain in 2012 . Spain is part of Group C in the preliminaries, along with Ukraine, Slovakia, Belarus, Macedonia and Luxembrug.
Spain was a total disappointment at the World Cup in Brazil, where he was eliminated from the groups, although it was the second favorite to win the world title after Brasil, Brazil.
The coach, Vicente del Bosque that won in the past a European title, and a World Cup title, despite his failure and poor results obtained by the Iberians in recent games. was not dismissed.
“Furia Roja”  split up this summer of three of the most important players, Xabi Alonso, Xavi and David Villa; all three quit the team after tournament in Brazil. In the last official match, Spain won with 3: 0 against Australia.

Spain last results:

23.06.14 WORLD CUP Australia Spain 0 : 3
18.06.14 WORLD CUP Spain Chile 0 : 2
13.06.14 WORLD CUP Spain Netherlands 1 : 5
07.06.14 WORLD CUP Spain Salvador 2 : 0
30.05.14 MEC Spain Bolivia 2 : 0
05.03.14 MEC Spain Italy 1 : 0
19.11.13 MEC South Africa Spania 1 : 0
16.11.13 MEC Guineea Ecuatorială Spain 1 : 2
15.10.13 CUP Spain Georgia 2 : 0
11.10.13 CUP Spain Belarus 2 : 1

The last direct meetings:

26.03.13 CUP France Spain 0 : 1
16.10.12 CUP Spain France 1 : 1
23.06.12 EUR Spain France 2 : 0
03.03.10 MEC France Spain 0 : 2
06.02.08 MEC Spain France 1 : 0

 

  France and Spain met in the World Cup qualifiers in Brazil, the two national werw part of group I. In the second confrontation, Spain managed to take four points of France and occupy first place in the group. The two teams meet 12 times to before, and the results are balanced  one each team had five wins and two draws from both sides.
The French dominated the years 80′90 ‘, while the Spaniards were imposed against the French in the past decade when they managed two European titles and one World Cup.

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