Euro 2024: Spain Vs France, La Roja Is More Convincing

Spain was even more favored when they met France in the semifinals of Euro 2024 (Instagram/@sefutbol).

JAKARTA Spain vs France is presented in the semifinals of Euro 2024. The journey of the two teams to reach this point is very different.

The match to win the final ticket will take place at the Allianz Arena, Munich, Germany, on Wednesday, July 7, early morning WIB, to be precise at 02.00 WIB

La Furia Roja, Spain's nickname, came to the top four with a perfect record. They won all the group stage matches, beat Georgia in the round of 16, and repatriated the hosts of Germany in the quarter-finals.

Germany is a strong team that was previously seeded to triumph at the Euros this year. However, their journey stopped dramatically through an extension round of 2 x 15 minutes.

In the duel, Spain took the lead through Dani Olmo in the 51st minute. Florian Writz then scored the equalizer in normal time for the second half with one minute remaining.

La Furia Roja's victory was only certain when there was one minute remaining extra time. Mikel Merino scored the winning goal through a header using Olmo's pass.

Luis de la Fuente's team is the only team to have won all five games so far. Interestingly, none of Spain's wins were awarded on penalties in the knockout stages.

However, no team in Euro history won six times in one final or recorded six consecutive wins.

La Roja has so far had a record of mentereg under De la Fuente's tutelage. They won 15 of 19 matches. That is the best winning percentage compared to other European countries.

In addition, Spain has passed four of the five semifinals of the Euros to date. Only lost on penalties against Italy, which then won, in the 2020 edition.

Meanwhile, Les Bleus reached the last four with a tense penalty shootout victory over Portugal. However, the journey of Didier Deschamps' troops was far from smooth to the semifinals.

They have not scored a single goal from an open game so far. The only goal they scored occurred in the group stage against Poland, but that was also from Kylian Mbappe's penalty.

Of the three games in the group, they narrowly won 1-0 against Austria thanks to an own goal, played goalless against the Netherlands, and only shared points with Poland in the last game so they qualified as group runners-up.

In the knockout stages, they also won thanks to an own goal against Belgium in the last 16 before playing a goalless draw for 120 minutes against Portugal. Dewi Fortuna then oversaw them in the penalty shootout round.

This unconvincing work made them clearly not good when dealing with Spain. Moreover, their star, Kylian Mbappe, is not in the best form following an injury in the nose.

Moreover, in the record of the meeting summarized 11v11, Spain still excels with 16 wins, while France only packs 13 wins, and the remaining seven matches end in all competitions.

Formation Forecast

Spain (4-3-3): Simon: Navas, Nacho, Laporte, Cucurella; Olmo, Rodri, Ruiz: Yamal, Morata, Williams

France (4-3-3): Maignan; Kounde, Saliba, Upamecano, Hernandez; Kante, Tchouameni, Rabiot; Griezmann; Kolo Muani, Mbappe