Luck has smiled on the Spanish team in the last two months, in which it has won every game since that stumble. Sweden, on the other hand, have six points left. The last three, against Georgia, in an unexpected defeat that allowed to the Red advance them in the classification. Basically, this evening’s duel is with safety net, because whoever loses will have a second bullet to get the ticket to the World Cup. But Spain wants to prevent the same thing from happening to him as in 1974, when it was left out after losing in the tiebreaker against the defunct Yugoslavia. He has since competed in the next eleven editions of the tournament. He now has a dozen at his fingertips.
Aware that this Sunday would be a duel of box or belt, Luis Enrique rotated in the match against Greece. Two regular starters, Jordi Alba and Sergio Busquets, remained on the bench. This time they will be at eleven, as the presence of César Azpilicueta and Pau Torres is also expected, to face a duel that Luis Enrique is not preparing thinking about the tie but only about the victory. In Sweden, on the other hand, the big question is whether Zlatan Ibrahimovic – the big star who returned to the national team after almost five years of absence – will play from the start.
