A draw against Sweden is enough for Spain

Spain will seal your direct ranking for the Qatar World Cup 2022 next Sunday as long as I don’t lose to Sweden on The Cartuja. After the skid of Ibrahimovic and company this Thursday before Georgia (2-0 loss), those of Luis Enrique did their homework in Athens by beating Greece (0-1), and after that the accounts are clear: the victory and the draw next Sunday would make Spain finish as leader of this group B (and therefore it would achieve a direct place for Qatar 2022) and only a defeat would condemn it to having to go through the play-offs so as not to miss next year’s World Cup event.

Everything indicated that, to be the leader in the closing of the group, Spain I was going to need the victory in the duel against Sweden. And it is that on paper it seemed unlikely that the Swedish team would not successfully solve their visit to Georgia, who had not won a home game in this group stage; but in a match to forget Ibrahimovic, Isaac, Forsberg and ultimately all the pupils of Janne Andersson they saw as a double from the local Kvaratskhelia knocked them down.

Greece, no options

On the other hand, the triumph of Spain just certified that Greece will reach the last day with no options to qualify for Qatar 2022, not even by repechage. To have stayed alive until the end, but for this he needed to win against Spain. Therefore, in the encounter of The Cartuja, whoever does not get the ticket directly, will fall to the repechage no matter what he does Greece in view of Kosovo.

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