Spain coach Luis Enrique known as Barcelona teenager Anu Fati on Friday for the nationwide crew’s deciding World Cup qualifiers in opposition to Greece and Sweden.
With two matches remaining, Spain is second solely to Sweden of their qualifying group. The winners of the group qualify for subsequent yr’s event in Qatar, whereas the second-place finishers face the playoffs.
Spain performs Greece in Athens on 11 November after which hosts Sweden in Seville on 14 November. Sweden leads Group B with 15 factors, adopted by Spain with 13 and Greece with 9.
The 19-year-old will be a part of a squad that’s largely untouched by the group that reached the European Championship semi-finals in July and the Nations League closing final month.
Other additions are AC Milan attacking midfielder Brahim Diaz and defender Dani Carvajal, the primary Real Madrid gamers to be joined by Luis Enrique since March.
In September 2020, Fati grew to become the youngest participant to attain within the historical past of the Spain nationwide crew on the age of 17 years, 311 days, after they registered a 4–0 win over Ukraine. Two months later, Fati injured the meniscus of his left knee and was dominated out for 10 months.
He lastly returned to play for Barcelona on the finish of September. Fati has since scored three objectives in seven matches, together with in Barcelona’s 1-0 win at Dynamo Kiev on this week’s Champions League.
Spain might be with out midfielders Pedri Gonzalez and Marcos Llorente, ahead Ferran Torres and striker Mikel Oyarzabal because of harm. Luis Enrique known as on Leeds striker Rodrigo Moreno to fill in his weak assault, whereas Dani Olmo and lvaro Morata additionally returned after lacking the earlier crew because of harm.
spain squad
Goalkeeper: Unai Simon (Athletic Bilbao), David de Gea (Manchester United), Robert Sanchez (Brighton)
Protector: Cesar Azpilicueta (Chelsea), Dani Carvajal (Real Madrid), Eric Garcia (Barcelona), Aymeric Laporte (Manchester City), Inigo Martinez (Athletic Bilbao), Pau Torres (Villarical), Jordi Alba (Barcelona), Jose Ges (Valencia)
Midfielder: Sergio Busquets (Barcelona), Rodri Hernandez (Manchester City), Gavi Pez (Barcelona), Coke Resurreción (Atletico Madrid), Mikel Merino (Real Sociedad), Carlos Soler (Valencia)
forward: Anu Fati (Barcelona), Brahim Diaz (AC Milan), Pablo Sarabia (Sporting Lisbon), Pablo Fornals (West Ham), Yeremy Pino (Villarreal), lvaro Morata (Juventus), Dani Olmo (Leipzig), Rodrigo Moreno (Leeds)
Germany remembers Drexler, Brandt for World Cup qualifiers
Germany coach Hansi Flick on Friday recalled midfielders Julian Drexler and Julian Brandt for the upcoming World Cup qualifying video games in opposition to Liechtenstein and Armenia.
The most up-to-date of Drexler’s 56 video games for Germany was in a 3-3 draw with Switzerland beneath earlier coach Joachim Low in October 2020. Brandt final performed for his nation in November 2020 in a 3-1 win over Ukraine.
Neither of them was a part of the German crew that reached the sixteenth spherical of this yr’s European Championships.
Manchester City midfielder Ilke Gundogan additionally went lacking in October after being injured in two nationwide crew video games. Forward Lukas Namecha has been known as up for the primary time since scoring in Wolfsburg’s final two Champions League video games.
Flick has received all 5 of his video games accountable for Germany and made it to the 2022 World Cup final month.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
