Spain take on the visitors Costa Rica in the round 1 match of group stage of FIFA World Cup 2022. The match will be played on Wednesday, November 23rd at Al Thumama Stadium (Doha).
Spain have been managed in recent years by Luis Enrique. This is an extremely specific specialist, who is distinguished by an unpredictable choice of composition, with some demonstrative bet on youngster. For example, Alejandro Balde, a 19-year-old lateral of Barcelona, is going to the World Cup, who had never tried on the form of the national team before this training camp. At the same time, there was no place in the cage for such masters as De Gea, Thiago, Moreno and even Sergio Ramos, although he was included in the preliminary list. It should not be surprising that the team is quite inconsistent. They won only 1 match at the Euro last year in regular time, in the fall they lost to direct competitor in qualifying, Sweden. Even this year, in the Nations League, there were losses of points with both Portugal and the Czech Republic, while Switzerland lost at all. However, for now, “Ray” compensates with the main result. At the Euro, his wards lost in the semi-finals, and then in a penalty shoot-out, and in the fall they won their group, having won 1-0 over Ronaldo and company in the last round.
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Costa Rica n the last century only once managed to break into the World Cup. But in this century, on the contrary, only 1 time this team missed the World Cup. The real breakthrough was a trip to Brazil in 2014. Then the team managed to get into the quarterfinals, and, above all, due to the courage of Keylor Navas. As a result, he was taken to Real Madrid, and the national team after 4 years, in Russia, was already limited to only the group stage. Moreover, they closed the final table in their group. Now the Costa Ricans are one of the last, along with Australia, to make it to the tournament. However, everything went quite as expected: yes, in the qualifications in the region of Central and North America this time we finished only 4th. But the US and Mexico are stronger by default while Canada was also able to add significantly. However, such a place did not become a problem - the Costa Ricans went to the intercontinental playoffs. It remained only in the decisive duel to cope on a neutral field with New Zealand. Which was done by Campbell's early goal. Joel scored already in the 3rd minute, and then this handicap was simply kept.
All 3 head-to-heads (all friendly) were played between 2011 and 2017. Starting with a draw against Costa Rica, then Spain won minimally, 2-1, and then defeated the Americans 5-0. Spain are seen as the favourites, but this is a team that might just come up with a problem. We recommend stopping at the offer in the form of “more than 2.5 goals”.
Prediction for the match: Over 2.5 scored goals
