Football World Cup 2018 / Spain

Football World Cup 2018 : Spain
Trainer	Fernando Hierro
captain	Sergio Ramos
Qualified as	Winner Europe Group G
World rankings before the tournament	10
Tournament result	Round of 16
Games won	1
Games tie	2
Games lost	1
Gates	10:10

This article covers the Spanish national football team at the 2018 World Cup . Spain took part in the finals for the fifteenth time and reached the round of 16.

qualification

The team qualified for the World Cup in Russia through the qualifying matches of the European football association UEFA .

Games

Spain met in the group G in Italy , Albania , Israel , Macedonia and Liechtenstein . In the ten encounters that resulted, the Spanish team had nine wins. Once - in the second game - they played a draw. For a long time Spain fought neck and neck with Italy, which was decided in the third game by a 3-0 home win.

Overall, national coach Julen Lopetegui , who took over the post after the European Championship, deployed 34 players, 15 of whom were already in the European Championship squad . Ten of these players were used in at least five games, but none were used in all ten games. Four players - goalkeeper David de Gea , David Silva , Sergio Busquets and captain Sergio Ramos - appeared in nine games. Álvaro Odriozola and Jonathan Viera made their first international appearances in the qualifying matches on October 6 and 9, 2017.

Spain scored the most goals in Europe after Belgium and Germany (both 43) and conceded the fewest goals together with England (both three).

The best goal scorers were Álvaro Morata , David Silva , Diego Costa and Isco with five goals each . A total of 14 Spaniards met and they also benefited from an own goal each by a Liechtensteiner and a Macedonian. Vitolo and Sergi Roberto (in the 8-0 win against Liechtenstein in the first game), Nacho Monreal (in the 4-0 win against Macedonia), Rodrigo and Thiago (in the 3-0 win in the penultimate game against Albania), Asier scored their first international goals in the qualifying matches Illarramendi (in the 1-0 win against Israel in the last game),

date	Venue	host		guest	Result	Goal scorers for Spain
09/05/2016	Leon	Spain	-	Liechtenstein	8: 0 (1: 0)	Diego Costa (10., 66.), Sergi Roberto (55.), David Silva (59., 90 + 1.), Vitolo (60.), Álvaro Morata (82., 83.)
10/06/2016	Turin	Italy	-	Spain	1: 1 (0: 0)	Vitolo (55.)
10/09/2016	Shkodra	Albania	-	Spain	0: 2 (0: 0)	Diego Costa (55th), Nolito (63rd)
11/12/2016	Granada	Spain	-	Macedonia	4: 0 (1: 0)	ET MKD (34th), Vitolo (63th), Nacho Monreal (84th), Aritz Aduriz (85th)
March 24, 2017	Gijón	Spain	-	Israel	4: 1 (2: 0)	David Silva (13th), Vitolo (45 + 1.), Diego Costa (51st), Isco (88th)
06/11/2017	Skopje	Macedonia	-	Spain	1: 2 (0: 2)	David Silva (15th), Diego Costa (27th)
02.09.2017	Madrid	Spain	-	Italy	3: 0 (2: 0)	Isco (13th, 40th), Álvaro Morata (77th)
05.09.2017	Vaduz	Liechtenstein	-	Spain	0: 8 (0: 4)	Sergio Ramos (3rd), Álvaro Morata (15th, 54th), Isco (16th), David Silva (39th), Iago Aspas (51st, 63rd), ET LIE (89th)
06.10.2017	Alicante	Spain	-	Albania	3: 0 (3: 0)	Rodrigo (16th), Isco (23rd), Thiago (26th)
09.10.2017	Jerusalem	Israel	-	Spain	0: 1 (0: 0)	Asier Illarramendi (76.)

Final table of the qualifying round

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Spain	10	9	1	0	036: 300	+33	28
2.	Italy	10	7th	2	1	021: 800	+13	23
3.	Albania	10	4th	1	5	010:130	−3	13
4th	Israel	10	4th	0	6th	010:150	−5	12
5.	North Macedonia	10	3	2	5	015:150	± 0	11
6th	Liechtenstein	10	0	0	10	001:390	−38	00

preparation

Games

date	Result	opponent	venue	Spanish goal scorers
November 11, 2017	5-0	Costa Rica	Málaga	Jordi Alba (6th), Álvaro Morata (23rd), David Silva (51st, 55th), Iniesta (73rd)
November 14, 2017	3: 3	Russia	St. Petersburg	Jordi Alba (9th), Sergio Ramos (35th / penalty, 53 / penalty)
23 March 2018	1: 1	Germany (TV)	Dusseldorf	Rodrigo (6.)
March 27, 2018	6: 1	Argentina	Madrid	Diego Costa (12th), Isco (27th, 52nd, 74th), Thiago (55th), Iago Aspas (73rd)
3rd June 2018	1: 1	Switzerland	Villarreal	Álvaro Odriozola (29.)
June 9, 2018	1-0	Tunisia	Krasnodar ( RUS )	Iago Aspas (84th)

Quarter

Team quarters were the football academy of FK Krasnodar in Krasnodar , where the team could also train.

Squad

The roster was announced on May 21st. After it was announced on June 12 that Julen Lopetegui after the World Cup head coach of Real Madrid will, this was a day later - two days before the World Cup opener against Portugal - dismissed and by the sports director of the Spanish Football Federation , Fernando Hierro replaced .

position	No.	Surname	birth date	Calls	Gates	society	debut	Last use						World Cup participation	World Cup games (before 2018)	World Cup goals (before 2018)
goal	01	David de Gea	07/11/1990	29	0	Manchester United	2014	06/09/2018	4th					2014	0	0
	13	Kepa	10/03/1994	1	0	Athletic Bilbao	2017	11/11/2017
	23	Pepe Reina	08/31/1982	36	0	SSC Naples	2005	09.10.2017						2010, 2014	0	0
Defense	18th	Jordi Alba	03/21/1989	62	8th	FC Barcelona D.	2011	06/09/2018	4th					2014	3	0
	14th	César Azpilicueta	08/28/1989	22nd	0	Chelsea FC P	2013	06/03/2018						2014	2	0
	02	Dani Carvajal	01/11/1992	15th	0	Real Madrid C	2014	03/27/2018	3
	16	Nacho Monreal	02/26/1986	22nd	1	Arsenal FC	2009	06/03/2018
	04th	Nacho	January 18, 1990	17th	0	Real Madrid C	2013	06/09/2018	2	1
	12	Álvaro Odriozola	12/14/1995	4th	1	Real Sociedad	2017	06/09/2018
	03	Gerard Piqué	02/02/1987	98	5	FC Barcelona D.	2009	06/09/2018	4th					2010, 2014	8th	0
	15th	Sergio Ramos	03/30/1986	152	13	Real Madrid C	2005	06/09/2018	4th					2006, 2010, 2014	13	0
midfield	05	Sergio Busquets	07/16/1988	103	2	FC Barcelona D.	2009	06/09/2018	4th		1			2010, 2014	9	0
	06th	Andrés Iniesta	05/11/1984	127	14th	FC Barcelona D.	2006	06/09/2018	4th					2006, 2010, 2014	10	2
	08th	Koke	01/08/1992	40	0	Atlético Madrid E.	2013	06/09/2018	3
	07th	Saul	11/21/1994	10	0	Atlético Madrid E.	2016	06/03/2018
	21st	David Silva	01/08/1986	121	35	Manchester City M	2006	06/09/2018	4th					2010, 2014	5	0
	10	Thiago	04/11/1991	29	2	FC Bayern Munich M	2011	06/09/2018	2
Storm	20th	Marco Asensio	01/21/1996	12	0	Real Madrid C	2016	06/09/2018	3
	17th	Iago Aspas	08/01/1987	10	5	Celta Vigo	2016	06/09/2018	3	1
	19th	Diego Costa	07.10.1988	20th	7th	Atlético Madrid E.	2014	06/09/2018	4th	3				2014	2	0
	22nd	Isco	04/21/1992	28	10	Real Madrid C	2013	06/09/2018	4th	1
	09	Rodrigo	03/06/1991	6th	2	Valencia CF	2014	06/09/2018	3
	11	Lucas Vázquez	07/01/1991	7th	0	Real Madrid C	2016	06/09/2018	2
Coaching staff	Trainer	Fernando Hierro	03/23/1968	89	29		2018							1990 , 1994, 1998, 2002	12	5
Appearances and goals as of June 9, 2018, after the game against Tunisia
↑ Positions according to information from the Spanish Association. ↑ Numbers according to the official squad list ↑ D = champions and cup winners in the World Cup year, M = champions in the World Cup year, P = cup winners in the World Cup year, C = winners of the 2017/18 UEFA Champions League, E = 2017/18 UEFA Europa League winners ↑ Years in italics = no use ↑ a b c d e As a player

Finals

Group draw

Kaliningrad (VR) Kazan (VR) Sochi (VR) Moscow (AF) Krasnodar

Venues and quarters (blue / italic) for the Spaniards

For the draw of the qualification groups on December 1st, the Spaniards were assigned to pot 2 and could therefore be drawn into a group with defending champions Germany, record world champions Brazil, vice world champions Argentina or host Russia. Spain was drawn into group B with European champions Portugal as the group head and the teams from Iran and Morocco . Portugal, along with France, are the second most frequent opponents of the Spaniards, who have won 16 against their neighbors and lost six of 35 games. The two drew thirteen times. There were two victories against Morocco in qualifying for the 1962 World Cup. Spain had never played against Iran.

Group stage / group B matches

→ Main article : Football World Cup 2018 / Group B

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Spain	3	1	2	0	006: 500	+1	05
2.	Portugal	3	1	2	0	005: 400	+1	05
3.	Iran	3	1	1	1	002: 200	± 0	04th
4th	Morocco	3	0	1	2	002: 400	−2	01

Fri., June 15, 2018, 9:00 p.m. (8:00 p.m. CEST) in Sochi
Portugal	-	Spain	3: 3 (2: 1)	24., 55. ′ Diego Costa , 58. ′ Nacho
Wed., June 20, 2018, 9:00 p.m. (8:00 p.m. CEST) in Kazan
Iran	-	Spain	0: 1 (0: 0)	58. ' Diego Costa
Mon., June 25, 2018, 8:00 p.m. (CEST) in Kaliningrad
Spain	-	Morocco	2: 2 (1: 1)	19 ′ Isco , 90 + 1 ′ Aspas

Games of the knockout round

At the end of the group stage, Spain had the same number of points and goal difference as Portugal, thus taking first place in the group due to the higher number of goals and meeting hosts Russia on July 1 in Moscow , against whom the team 3: 4 on penalties lost and was eliminated from the tournament.

Thursday, July 1, 2018, 5:00 p.m. (4:00 p.m. CEST) in Moscow (Luschniki Olympic Stadium)
Spain	-	Russia	1: 1 n.V. (1: 1, 1: 1), 3: 4 in E.	11. Ignashevich

Individual evidence

1. ^ All of Vitolo's international matches
2. ^ All international matches by Sergi Roberto
3. ^ All of Nacho Monreal's international matches
4. ^ All of Rodrigo's international matches
5. ^ All of Thiago's international matches
6. ^ All of Asier Illarramendi's international matches
7. ↑ fifa.com: 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia - Team Base Camps
8. ↑ sefutbol.com: "OFFICIAL | Lopetegui sets date for Spain World Cup squad announcement "
9. ↑ sefutbol.com: "OFFICIAL | Spain squad named for 2018 World Cup in Russia "
10. ↑ Spain separates from coach Julen Lopetegui before the World Cup , kicker.de, June 13, 2018, accessed on June 13, 2018.
11. ↑ OFICIAL | Fernando Hierro asumirá el cargo de seleccionador nacional durante el Campeonato del Mundo de Rusia , sefutbol.com, June 13, 2018, accessed on June 13, 2018.