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MIGUEL ANGEL LARA
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The Spanish team faces the end of the year 2024 with visits to Copenhagen (match against Denmark, Friday, 8:45 p.m.) and Tenerife (Serbia, Monday at the same time). It is the culmination of a year that is already part of the golden history of Spanish football, which will be remembered as the year of the fourth European Championshipthe one with the goal Oyarzabalthe explosion of Lamine Yamal and that of a team that left Germany with a sensation of power rarely seen.
The selection of Luis de la Fuentealready classified among the eight that in March will fight to be in the Nations League Final Four and defend the title she wears on her shirt, she will try to be first in her group and thus play the second leg at home. For that, a tie is enough. Copenhagen Parken. A mission that Spain faces with the security that comes from having erased the word defeat from its vocabulary.
Luis de la Fuente’s men beat Serbia with goals from Laporte, Morata and Baena and sealed their qualification to the quarterfinals of the Nations League
The Spanish team is the one in the world that has the longest journey right now since its last defeat. There are 14 games he has played Spain since entering this year with a defeat in London against Colombia. Since then there have been 12 victories, seven of them in the Euro Cup, and two draws (Brazil, in the friendly at the Bernabéu, and the 0-0 in Belgrade that opened the Nations League).
Nobody even comes close to double digits. Behind Spain there are three teams with eight games in a row without defeats. One is African (Morocco) and the other two Asians (South Korea and Japan). The Moroccan team is the one with the most consecutive victories: six. It is followed by the surprising Greece with his five out of five, of them four in Division B of the Nations, with victory included in Wembley.
The first European after Spain in that classification without defeats is Portugal. The team led by Roberto Martínez has six games without defeat, since 2-0 against Georgia that closed its group stage of the Euro.
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Spain’s powerful path gains more strength when the friendlies played are removed from the calendar. So, the team goes up to 19 consecutive games without a blemish. Because in the era of Luis de la Fuente He has only fallen in one official match in Glasgow, that 2-0 that opened a life crisis for a newborn. Since the defeat at the hands of the Scots, she has gone undefeated in 19 official matches, which has earned her the title of champion twice: of the Nations and the Euro Cup.
We are facing Spain’s third best streak without defeats in official matches. Ahead, the 24 games of Gracious (from the defeat against Italy in USA 94 to Nigerian in the next World Cup) and the 29 with Forest (from 1-0 against Switzerland to open the World Cup in South Africa to the resounding defeat in the final of the Confederations Cup of 2013 against Brazil, 3-0 in Maracaná).
