Spain is measured this Thursday at Swiss, in a match from the third day of the UEFA Nations League on Swiss soil. After conceding two draws against Portugal and the Czech RepublicLuis Enrique’s eleven is almost forced to gain if you don’t want to see your options to qualify for the Final Four that will decide the title of champion of the present edition of this championship very diminished.
However, it will not be easy task for La Roja to break a Swiss team that, without much fuss, has become a real rock for the interests of Spain for some time now.
And it is that since the June 16, 2010 Switzerland beat Spain for the first time after fifteen losses and three draws, the last five clashes between both teams show a balance absolutely equal: one win for each and three draws, with four goals for each selection. The last pulse, true, ended with a Spanish victory on penalties, but the ‘official’ result was a tie at one.
for penalties
It was on July 2, 2021, in Saint Petersburg, in the quarterfinals of the European Championship, when after Zakaria’s own goals at 8′ and Shaqiri’s for the final 1-1 at 68′, extra time did not break the tables despite the superiority of the Red (at 77 ‘Freuler had been sent off). The currency of penalties fell to the Spanish side 3-1, after Unai Simón stopped two Swiss shots.
In 2010, Spain began its journey in the World Cup in South Africa stumbling against Switzerland in the debut, with a minimum 0-1 signed by Fernandes that meant the first Swiss victory in history against the Red and a knock that served to wake up Del Bosque’s men, who would end up winning the only world of the selection to date.
Eight years later, on June 3, 2018, both teams met in a friendly played in Villarreal. Odriozolaat 29, opened a scoring that R. Rodríguez would close at 62 with the final 1-1.
Precedent in the UEFA Nations League with SR4 as the protagonist
On October 10, 2020, in the league of the UEFA Nations League, minimum triumph of Spain thanks to the goal of Oyarzabal 14 minutes into the match played at the Alfredo di Stéfano. In the game played on Swiss soil on November 14, a goal was tied thanks to Freuler (26′) and Gerard Moreno, who almost tied in extremis, at 89′ of the game. A duel in which Sergio Ramos missed… two penalties!
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Since then, only one other confrontation, the one already reviewed in July of last year, in Saint Petersburg. The fifth in eleven years, which endorsed that label of enemy in disguise with which Switzerland has managed to match its statistics against Spain since that historic World Cup in South Africa. Raised to 14th place in the FIFA ranking (Spain is in seventh position), Switzerland is, almost without seeming it, a real touchstone for this faltering selection of Luis Enrique.
Balance of the last Spain-Switzerland
James Miserachs
