Spain, before the key week on the way to Qatar 2022

The moment of truth has come for the Selection. The team led by Luis Enrique faces throughout this week the two duels that will mark his future with respect to the Qatar World Cup 2022. On Thursday (8:45 p.m.) visit the Athens olympic to face Greece and on Sunday (8:45 p.m.) he receives at The Cartuja from Sevilla a Sweden in the duel with which group B of the qualifier will close for the aforementioned appointment at the end of next year.

With two days to go, it is Sweden who leads the group with 15 points, follows him Spain with 13 and in third place is Greece, with 9. Both Sweden What Spain They depend on themselves due to the direct confrontation of the last day, while the Hellenic team has options, although remote, since they would need to defeat Spain So what Sweden click on Georgia the day after tomorrow to get to Sunday alive. And even then he would not depend on himself.

Everything points to that, except for a puncture of the National Team in Athens, everything will just be decided in the Spain-Sweden from The Cartuja. If as many as others win in their respective commitments the day after tomorrow, the accounts are clear: Spain It will be first of the group only if it wins. In the event of a tie or loss, it would be relegated to looking in the repechage for the ticket for the Qatar World Cup 2022.

“The situation has changed, but the fact that we now depend on ourselves does not mean that we will succeed. It’s going to cost ”, he warned Luis Enrique minutes after winning in Kosovo in September. Since then the Selection knew that, winning the two remaining commitments, will be in Qatar 2022 to chain his 12th consecutive participation in a World Cup event. You haven’t missed one since West Germany 1974 and of course you don’t want to miss the next one.

On alert for precedents

Although the Selection has the favorite poster both in front of Greece as against SwedenIt should be noted that they were unable to defeat either one or the other in the first round matches of this group B of the qualifying phase. In view of Greece, on the first day, he was not able to go beyond the draw (1-1) in a duel played in March in Los Cármenes, and against Sweden, in the Friends Arena de Solna in September, lost 2-1.

Finally, it should be remembered that if there is a tie on points between two teams in the group once it is closed, in the tiebreaker method the general goal difference prevails over what happened in direct confrontations.

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