Spain-Malta, European 2020 qualifications: predictions

Spain-Malta is a qualifying group F match for the 2020 European Championships, is played Friday at 20:45 at the Ramon de Carranza stadium in Cadiz: probable line-ups and forecasts.

SPAIN – MALTA | Friday 8:45 pm

The match against Malta always evokes fond memories of Spain, which won 12-1 in 1983, qualifying for the 1984 European Championships: it needed a win with eleven goals to gain access to the finals instead of the Netherlands. Many pages of suspects were written on that match, which was stopped on the score of 3-1 at the break.

On this round, Spain has already secured qualification for the final round of the 2020 European Championships, and could also afford a defeat against Malta. This will not be the case, given the technical gap between the two teams, but technical coach Roberto Moreno will surely perform experiments giving space to players who have been little used so far in qualifying matches for the 2020 European Championships.

In particular, Roma goalkeeper Pau Lopez, Villarreal defender Pau Torres and Dinamo Zagreb midfielder Dani Olmo should play. Olmo should play in this game as an outside striker with Oyarzabal, while Morata will be the central. The midfielder Cazorla – already back in the "Roja" after two years of ordeal between 2016 and 2018, with eight operations on the ankle tendon and even the risk of amputation of the leg – should start as the owner and celebrate the eighty international appearances .

Spain-Malta: the predictions

Spain is favored for victory in a game where the total number of goals could be between three and six.

On a statistical level it is easy to imagine a greater number of goals scored in the second half than the first. Spain has in fact scored as many as 18 goals from the last 25 in the second half, and in the long run the best physical preparation compared to the Maltese players who will think only of defending will come out. Malta have lost their last seven games without ever scoring.

As possible markers eye to the novice Olmo and Sergio Ramos, who scored in eight of the last eleven matches of Spain, of which he is the penalty taker: he has always scored the last seven shots from the penalty spot.

The probable formations of Spain-Malta

SPAIN (4-3-3): Pau Lopez; Navas, Sergio Ramos, Pau Torres, Gaya; Cazorla, Rodri, Fabian Ruiz; Oyarzabal, Morata, Olmo.
MALTA (4-4-2): Bonello; Muscat, Caruana, Agius, Mbong; Corbalan, Vella, Muscat, Gambin; Mifsud, Nwoko.

POSSIBLE RESULT: 4-0