Spain took an enormous leap to securing Nations League quarter-final development after Tuesday’s snug 3-0 victory over Serbia.
Luis de la Fuente’s facet will want only a level from their final two video games within the competitors subsequent month after a routine win in Cordoba.
Aymeric Laporte opened the scoring after simply 5 minutes, heading into the far nook after a well-worked nook routine allowed Pedro Porro area to ship.
Mikel Merino’s header from Alex Baena’s cross was denied by the submit quickly after, earlier than Spain missed a wonderful probability to increase their lead after the interval.
Porro’s vicious shot was adjudged to have been dealt with by Veljko Birmancevic, however Alvaro Morata blazed over with a disappointing 54th-minute penalty.
Captain Morata made amends simply 11 minutes later, nonetheless, ending with ease into the underside nook after Fabian Ruiz profited on Serbia’s slack makes an attempt to play out from defence.
Additional distress adopted for Serbia as Strahinja Pavlovic’s last-man problem on Mikel Oyarzabal was upgraded to a pink card following a VAR evaluate, earlier than Baena curled the ensuing free-kick previous Predrag Rajkovic to seal one other Roja win.
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Information Debrief: Unbeaten run continues for rampant Roja
De la Fuente masterminded Spain’s Euro 2024 triumph, with the most effective workforce deservedly triumphing on the event in Germany, however La Roja’s spectacular run began nicely earlier than that.
Spain are actually unbeaten of their final 19 matches throughout all competitions (W17 D2), excluding friendlies, their greatest such streak since a 29-game run between June 2010 and June 2013 (W24 D5).
This was a sometimes dominant efficiency from the hosts, who gathered 2.9 anticipated targets (xG) in comparison with Serbia’s meagre 0.37, because the away facet struggled all through.
