Spain vs Germany Prediction & Betting Tips (5 July)

Exited in the semi-final three years ago by Italy, Spain is still in the running in this edition and only confirms that we will have to count on it for the supreme title. It's been 12 years now since the era of the great "Roja" with the Euro x2 + World Cup treble ended, and after years of scarcity and soporific results in major competitions, she returned to the helm of the table by winning the 2023 Nations League against Croatia, a year after its defeat in the final against the Blues led by Karim Benzema and Kylian Mbappé. In this Euro, Spain did not laugh in the group stage by easily finishing first after a scathing first salsa against Croatia 3-0, a collective demonstration against Italy despite a "small" score 0-1 and in a stroll against Albania 0-1. In the round of 16, led for the first time in the competition against Georgia, Luis de la Fuente's men never doubted and offered themselves their greatest victory in the competition by literally asphyxiating Willy Sagnol's men 4 -1. Organizing country of the competition, Germany is expected to turn the corner, especially by its public to return to the European roof after disastrous deadlines in 2021 defeat against England in the 1/8 final and during the 2018 world championships in Russia and in 2022 in Qatar with two eliminations in the group stage. Julian Nagelsmann took the reins of the Nationalelf but he was scared in the 1/8th final against a valiant Danish selection winning 2-0 all the same who had a goal refused for an offside of a few centimeters a piece of crampons.

... In the group stage, the Germans, 4 times world champions, did the job by slapping Scotland from the start 5-1, calmly against Hungary 2-0 before being finally put up against a very good Swiss team where it was necessary to wait for an equalizing goal from Füllkrug in stoppage time to avoid a 1-1 defeat. The Mannschaft has not reached the final four of a major competition since 2016, during the Euro, defeated by France at the Vélodrome.

The years go by but Spain is still a breeding ground for talented players who are becoming, for some of them, the revival of world football. He has just graduated from high school, Lamine Yamal (FC Barcelona) is making a splash and he offered Fabian Ruiz a marvelous pastry on the 2nd Spanish goal against Georgia. He is not the only one to explode during this Euro since Bilbao winger, Nico Williams (scorer and passer against Georgia) is reaching a milestone and his rating is skyrocketing for a possible transfer this summer to a more upscale club to play in the Champions League. If in Catalonia, we hope to line up the two cracks, La Roja holds them and the two youngsters surround the captain, Morata (Atlético Madrid, 77 sel, 36 goals), scorer against Croatia. The midfielder made up of Ruiz (PSG), Pedri (Barcelona) and switchman Rodrigo (Man City) clearly makes us tremble but let's not forget to mention the valuable contributions of the full-backs Cucurella (Chelsea) and Carvajal (Real Madrid). The central hinge could have been French with Laporte and Robin le Normand (a priori future Atlético Madrid player, imminent deal). We find a quality bench with Ayoze Perez (Bétis Sevilla), Mikel Oyarzabal (Real Sociedad), Mikel Merino (Real Sociedad), Dani Olmo (RB Leipzig), Baena (Villarreal), the now former Real Madrid player Joselu ( departure for Qatar) without forgetting the only scorer against Albania during J3, Ferran Torres (Barcelona, ​​44 sels, 20 pawns). Small point concerning the absences with the non-calls of Aleix Garcia (probable future Bayer Leverkusen player), Marcos Llorente (Atlético Madrid), Cubarsi (FC Barcelona) or even choices like Asensio (PSG, short time of game), the too often injured Gerard Moreno (Villarreal) and the injured Pino (Villarreal) and Gavi (FC Barcelona).

 Suspended for the 1/8 finals against Denmark, Jonathan Tah (Leverkusen) was perfectly replaced by Schlotterbeck (Dortmund) but should, a priori, find his place in the eleven with the unbeatable Rüdiger (Real Madrid) who as a reminder , plays with a thigh alert. We regularly talk about the Yamal - Nico Williams duo, but the Mannschaft cannot be complained about with the cracks Wirtz (Leverkusen) and Musiala (Bayern Munich, author of 3 goals in the competition) without forgetting X factors like Kai Havertz (Arsenal ) or the Borussia Dortmund scorer, Füllkrug (2 goals each in this European Championship). To surround all these beautiful people, Gundogan (FC Barcelona) is there like the future retiree, Toni Kroos and a certain Andrich (Bayer Leverkusen) who is showing himself to be more and more important and irreplaceable in this role of double pivot with the ex-Merengue. Furthermore, let's talk about the absences with the non-calls of Brandt (BVB), Süle (overweight), Hummels (BVB), Goretzka (Bayern), Gnabry (Bayern) or even the legend of German football, Reus . Note that Emre Can (Dortmund) was not previously invited to the competition but took his chance following the withdrawal of Pavlovic (Bayern). Werner (Tottenham) is on the decline and was not called up following his injury.