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The Spanish soccer team faces Egypt this Tuesday in the last preparation test for the 2026 World Cup in the United States, Mexico and Canada that will be played at home, specifically at the RDCE Stadium, a fiefdom to which it returns four years after the last time.<\/p>\n
Spain arrives with morale through the roof after the overwhelming victory against Serbia (3-0)<\/strong> last Friday at the Villarreal Ceramics Stadium. This peaceful victory has made it one of the best teams of the current campaign with six wins and one draw, which places it at the level of England, France and Croatia.<\/p>\n This last friendly duel of La Roja on Spanish soil is almost unprecedented; You have to go back 20 years to see the only confrontation to date between the European and African teams<\/strong>. It was the last warm-up test for a Spain led by Luis Aragon\u00e9s before heading to the 2006 World Cup that was held in Germany.<\/p>\n Then, the Spanish team was in full transition between two generations, those of Ra\u00fal and Reyes. Precisely, both were responsible for achieving the victory against Egypt, which they defeated 2-0 at the Mart\u00ednez Valero in Elche<\/strong>. <\/p>\n \t\tReyes’ great goal against Egypt<\/span><\/span>\n\t<\/div>\n And from forwards who marked an era in the Spanish team to those who are marking the present. Mikel Oyarzabal showed again the other day that he is in top shape with a new double against Serbia<\/strong>a streak that he will want to continue increasing against the African team led by Hossam Hassan.<\/p>\n The Real striker, thanks to his two goals against the Balkan team, can now boast to be in the ‘top 10’ of La Roja scorers<\/strong>. At 28 years old, he already has 24 goals with the senior team, and is ranked number 9 in the ranking, ahead of a historic player like Di St\u00e9fano (23).<\/p>\n Oyarzabal is about to celebrate a decade wearing the Red. He debuted on May 29, 2016 against Bosnia. Since then he has not stopped growing and was a key player in winning the Euro Cup two years ago in Germany. <\/p>\n He has other historic players ahead of him, with David Villa as the top scorer in the history of the national team, with his 59 goals. The second position is, precisely, Ra\u00fal Gonz\u00e1lez, with 44. Figures are still very distant for the man from Eibar, although facing the World Cup he has within reach the 26 of Butrague\u00f1o, the 27 of Morientes and the 29 of Hierro<\/strong>who occupies sixth place in the ‘top 10’ of national scorers.<\/p>\n And from the present scorer of Spain, to the future. The friendly duel against Serbia last Friday also provided a preview of what is to come. The debutant V\u00edctor Mu\u00f1oz, only 22 years old, left very good feelings up front and his first goal with the senior shirt, in a first game with La Roja that begins a promising path for the Osasuna forward.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The one who could not make his debut the other day was Joan Garc\u00eda, the big news in Luis de la Fuente’s penultimate call-up for this window of pre-World Cup friendlies, as he was left without a number for the match against Serbia. This may be a good opportunity to be among those chosen to face Egypt.<\/p>\n Friday’s lineup against the Balkan team was a general rehearsal of what Spain’s type ‘eleven’ could be for the World Cup, with Unai Sim\u00f3n in goal, Cubars\u00ed and Laporte in the center of defense and with Llorente and Cucurella on the sides. The command center from the center of the field for Rodri and Pedri<\/strong>accompanied at the ends by Lamine and Baena; and Oyarzabal at the point of attack. <\/p>\n Only two positions in this configuration could change in Luis de la Fuente’s ideal. One is the right side, where Pedro Porro or Carvajal himself could have their place. The latter has a difficult time after not being in the squad due to the lack of minutes he is having this season at Real Madrid due to the serious injury he suffered last season.<\/p>\n The other place would be the far left, where Nico Williams was a regular until his physical problems <\/strong>that have been weighing him down all season. It will be necessary to see if the Athletic player is capable of arriving in full shape and with minutes in order to be in the final squad for this summer’s World Cup event.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Spanish soccer team faces Egypt this Tuesday in the last preparation test for the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Oyarzabal enters the historical top-ten of scorers<\/h2>\n
Luis de la Fuente already outlines his ‘eleven’ type for the World Cup<\/h2>\n