Spain looks for rivals for the Euro Cup in a draw with ‘traps’

This Saturday, Spain will find out its rivals at the German Euro 2024 during the draw in Hamburg for the group stage of the competition, where it will start as seeded while waiting to avoid possible “traps” such as the teams of Italy, Croatia, Netherlands, Hungary or Denmark.

The draw will be held at Elbphilharmonie from Hamburg (6:00 p.m./5:00 p.m. GMT), one of the ten venues, and will form the six groups of the initial round (A, B, C, D, E and F). Germany, as host, will be placed directly as the first team in group A.

Spain, winner of the last Nations League and champion of group A of the qualifying phase, will start from pot 1 along with Germany, as well as Portugal, France, Belgium and England, so it will not coincide with these in its first matches.

The three rivals of Luis de la Fuente’s men will come from each of the other three drums, formed by the results of the qualifying round and its coefficient.

In the 2 will be Hungary and Romania, group champions and undefeated, ahead of Serbia and Switzerland, respectively. Also Türkiyewhich finished ahead of Croatia, in addition to Denmark and Albania, leaders of their groups, and Austriawhich was second behind Belgium (F).

The Albanian team led by the Brazilian and former Barcelona player Sylvio Mendes, Sylvinhowill be in the Eurocup for the second time after closing its group as first, ahead of the Czech Republic and Poland, relegated to the play-offs.

He third drum includes rivals as powerful as Netherlands, Ronald Koeman’s team, which was second in group B behind France. The Dutch were eliminated in the quarterfinals of the World Cup in Qatar, after losing on penalties to champions Argentina.

Will also be Scotlandsecond in the Spanish group, which they beat (2-0) last March, along with CroatiaMadrid player Luka Modric’s team, which finished second in the group behind Turkey and was the rival against which Spain won the Nations League on penalties (0-0/4-5) last June in Rotterdam.

Slovenia, Slovakia, rival of the Spanish team in the first phase of the previous Euro Cup, and Czech Republic, They will complete the third drum. The three closed their classification as second, behind Denmark, Portugal and Albania.

The third rival for Spain will come from bomb 4 which includes Italy, Serbia and Switzerland, along with the winners of the play-offswith teams like Poland, Ukraine and Greece.

After the disappointment of not being in the Qatar World Cup 2022Italy, the last European champion, guaranteed its presence on the last day of the group stage with a draw with Ukraine (0-0) and a controversial last play due to a possible penalty, which not even the Spanish referee Jesús Gil Manzano appreciated. nor the VAR.

The eleventh of Luciano Spalletti will defend the title won in 2021, when after eliminating Spain on penalties (1-1/4-2) they reached the final and defeated England at Wembley also on penalties (1-1/3-2).

Serbia and Switzerland, second in the group after Hungary and Romania, will complete the fourth pot along with the winners of the play-offs, which will be played between March 21 and 26 with a format of six semifinals and three finals. The winners of Georgia-Luxembourg and Greece-Kazakhstan They will fight for a place, just like the winners of Israel-Iceland and Bosnia-Ukraine and those who prevail in the clashes Poland-Estonia and Wales-Finland.

Tomorrow’s ceremony, enlivened by the performances of the tenor Jonas Kauffman and the violinist David Garret, The position of each team in its group in the competition will also be determined by draw, which will be played from June 14 to July 14.

The first two from each of the six groups will advance to round of 16, along with the four best third parties.

Berlin, Hamburg, Leipzig, Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Gelsenskirchen, Cologne, Frankfurt, Munich and Stuttgart will be the headquarters of the tournament.

Drum distribution:

1: Germany, Portugal, France, Spain, Belgium and England.

2: Hungary, Turkey, Romania, Denmark, Albania and Austria

3: Netherlands, Scotland, Croatia, Slovenia, Slovakia and Czech Republic

4: Italy, Serbia and Switzerland, along with the play-off winners

2023-12-02 11:10:09
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