Spain and Germany day today...and both should be worried. This is not an easy group. twoht fears/hopes for a shock.
. These two nations have been drawn against each other in the same World Cup group, and the assumption that they will both qualify by default is based on them both turning over the other two teams in the group – Japan and Costa Rica – and that looks considerably shakier today than it did yesterday. Their match against each other ensures that one or both of them will drop points; further dropped points start to look like they could be a gamble too far.
In 2018, Spain squeaked through the group stages by the skin of their teeth, winning one and drawing their other two group matches. Curiously they were again put in the same group as another big side; in this case, it was the then-reigning European champions Portugal. Having qualified top of their group on goals scored from Portugal, they were beaten on penalties in the second round by Russia. They fared better at Euro 2020, where they came within a penalty shoot-out of a place in the final.
There is no guarantee that he’ll get much playing time, with competition from Goretzka and Kimmich, Jonas Hoffman and Ilkay Gundogan, but just for Gotze to be there is quite a turnaround for a career disrupted by frequent injury. But with the discovery of an underlying cause for these injuries, his career has turned itself around. Gotze left PSV to return to the Bundesliga after an absence of two seasons and has been instrumental in taking Eintracht to fourth place in the table.
Germany seem to be in transition and Spain seem a little unpredictable, and either of these character traits could be combustible when combined with the experience of the two other teams in their group. Costa Rica reached the quarter-finals of the World Cup in 2014 after topping a group also containing Italy, England and Uruguay, while Japan are at their seventh successive finals and made the second round in 2018. Neither of these teams should be taken in the slightest bit lightly.
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