England

FT

1 : 2

vs

HT 1 : 2

Spain

Kick Off at 18:45 (GMT) on 8th September, 2018
The referee for this match is Danny Makkelie
Attendance of 81392 fans at the Wembley
This is a match in Nations League - UEFA Nations League A Grp. 4, Match Day 1, Season 2018/2019

England
Goals
Rashford (11')
Cards
Henderson (18')
Shaw (42')
Stones (66')
Rose (90')

Spain
Goals
Niguez (13')
Rodrigo (32')
Cards
Carvajal (84')

Full lineups: England vs Spain

England

Starting XI

1. Jordan Pickford
6. Harry Maguire
5. John Stones
4. Joseph Gomez
2. Kieran Trippier
8. Jordan Henderson
11. Dele Alli
7. Jesse Lingard
3. Luke Shaw
10. Marcus Rashford
9. Harry Kane

Substitutes

13. Jack Butland
21. Alex McCarthy
22. Marcus Bettinelli
12. Kyle Walker
14. Trent Alexander-Arnold
15. Danny Rose
16. James Tarkowski
17. Eric Dier
18. Ruben Loftus-Cheek
19. Fabian Delph
20. Danny Welbeck

Coach

Gareth Southgate

Spain

Starting XI

1. David De Gea
2. Daniel Carvajal
4. Nacho Fernandez
15. Sergio Ramos
12. Marcos Alonso
10. Thiago Alcantara
5. Sergio Busquets
8. Saul Niguez
9. Rodrigo
17. Iago Aspas
22. Isco

Substitutes

13. Kepa Arrizabalaga
23. Pau Lopez
3. Raul Albiol
6. Inigo Martinez
7. Alvaro Morata
11. Suso
14. Cesar Azpilicueta
16. Rodri
18. Jose Gaya
19. Sergi Roberto
20. Marco Asensio
21. Daniel Ceballos

Coach

Luis Enrique

15

fouls

9
3

offsides

3
6

shots on target

4
3

shots off target

4
2

blocked shots

3
0

counter attacks

1
4

corners

1
21

crosses

11
48%

possession

52%

89 Votes

England vs Spain
Team Performance

50 Comments

Top Comments

Outlaw 8 years ago

Chelsea, Greece 0 580

It's coming home lads!

JuanMataLegend 8 years ago

Manchester United, Spain 0 179

UEFA Nations League makes football better

milanlamiavita 8 years ago

Bustese Milano City, Italy 4 3418

When it comes to technical ability, Spain are a whole generation ahead of England. They might've scuppered their own chances at the WC when leaving themselves manager-less before the first game, but the reality is that when it comes to pure footballing class, I'm not sure if there is a country on the planet that plays football in as fluid a manner as Spain. Unfortunately though, Spain are back to being how they were before David Villa. Lacking a killer goalscorer upfront. If they consistently had a top world class goalscorer throughout their history, they'd have a lot more than the one WC.

All comments

rescue_secure 8 years ago

England 25 1357

Rashford is wasting his time at lousy united! He needs to move to a far better club like liv, manc or prob real madrid who are in need of an instinctive striker!

mas_bowo25 8 years ago

Liverpool, Indonesia 0 512

Speed recovery, Luke lad!

Forester 8 years ago

Fiorentina, Finland 0 139

Luis Enrique might turn spain into a champion again

francisa75 8 years ago

FC Porto, Portugal 0 72

Clearly studied the 2nd spanish goal.

critlord 8 years ago

Manchester United 0 158

I think Luke Shaw should retire from football. The GODS are against him.

JaapStam 8 years ago

Manchester United, Australia 2 268

I think you should STFU.

critlord 8 years ago Edited

Manchester United 0 158

Sorry, i didnt know if i had not commented he would have had a glorious career without any unlucky injuries and have won everything. I will try next time and revive someone's career. Thanks for the suggestion.

Also, I found a new word you might like. It's called "Sarcasm." Go google it.

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2018-09-11T23:02:53+00:00

Sorry, i didnt know if i had not commented he would have had a glorious career without any unlucky injuries and have won everything. I will try next time and revive someone's career. Thanks for the suggestion.

Marcus2011 8 years ago

Chelsea FC, England 277 6501

We almost beat them

EdgarEAM 8 years ago

2 241

Brilliant set piece by Spain, deserved win after that diamond piece.v😍😍

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tawqir 8 years ago

Arsenal, Jamaica 4 548

If Kyle walker played, we would have smash them

akashnai90 8 years ago

Real Madrid 0 398

"we". Walker plays for England, not Jamaica.

tawqir 8 years ago

Arsenal, Jamaica 4 548

Sterling is Jamaican and plays for England. Hush your mouth.

EdgarEAM 8 years ago Edited

2 241

LOL, Well, Both teams played great. Hope that England can get three points in next match

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2018-09-09T00:54:55+00:00

LOL, Well Both teams played great. Hope that England can get three points in next match

tuan_jinn 8 years ago

Manchester United, Netherlands 198 6914

Quite a good game. England wasnt that bad, but surely has to work on big teams. England should be one. Hope Shaw is ok :(

_Pelle_ 8 years ago

Paris Saint-Germain 161 6982

Barca used to have so many players in the national team... Nowadays majority of their players are foreign players... La Masia?

tawqir 8 years ago

Arsenal, Jamaica 4 548

They are just a money club. Look at their transfers

Neymar from Santos 50m
Suarez from Liverpool 75m
Coutinho from Liverpool 140m
Dembele from Dortmund 135m

ForcaCataluna 8 years ago

Barcelona, Argentina 2 455

we've got some promising talents in midfield for La Masia. alena, oriol, monchu, puig. looking at the transfers, we mostly spend on attacking force, something that is lacking from academy to be quite honest.

bembot 8 years ago

Real Madrid, Indonesia 0 81

@ForcaCataluna everyone has promising talents in their academy. It doesn't mean anything until they're proven in the first team level. Fact is, Barcelona that used to boast their academy for one golden generation has become Real Madrid that they said "big spender club". Meanwhile Madrid these days are barely spending and promoting (or buying back) their Castilla players. Tbh the last decent player coming out of La Masia is Sergi Roberto..

_Pelle_ 8 years ago Edited

Paris Saint-Germain 161 6982

Pep was good at giving La Masias talents a chance in the team. But since he left it seems like their talents get much less chances. To become a starplayer and take that last step you have to be given chances. It's a bit sad because Barca used to be really good at mixing their own talents with bought in starplayers. Now it is almost a panic situation if a starplayer leaves without a replacement being bought in, instead of bringing up talents which are much less expensive. However I'm not really updated on La Masia and maybe their talents today are not on the level to get chances in the team...

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2018-09-09T08:17:37+00:00

Pep was good at giving La Masias talents a chance in the team. But since he left it seems like their talents get much less chances. To become a starplayer and take that last step you have be given chances. It's a bit sad because Barca used to be really good at mixing their own talents with bought in starplayers. Now it is almost a panic situation if a starplayer leaves without a replacement being bought in, instead of bringing up talents which are much less expensive. However I'm not really updated on La Masia and maybe their talents today are not on the level to get chances in the team...

_qwerty_ 8 years ago Edited

0 69

with messi, pique,alba and busquets retired within a few years, barca will be without a world class la masia player, unless someone new is found (roberto is decent, but not world class)... I really miss that 'golden generation' of la masia players: busquets, messi, iniesta, xavi, pedro, pique, valdes, puyol, febregas

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2018-09-09T09:58:50+00:00

with messi, pique,alba and busquets retired within a few years, barca will be without a world class la masia player, unless someone new is found (roberto is decent, but not world class)... I really miss that 'golden generation' of la masia players: busquets, messi, iniesta, xavi, pedro, pique, valdes, puyol, febregas etc

Tretze 8 years ago

Barcelona, Romania 0 433

On the one side, the current Barcelona board is focused on big names and tough players (see Vidal) rather than purely technical ones to fit the Cruyffian way of playing. They've also started started buying youngsters for Masia
On the other side, hunger for trophies makes teams look for shortcuts to long-term success in proven young players, while other teams are already getting stronger themselves. Academies and testing players becomes a high risk to those objectives and managers prefer to loan out every surplus talent.

Seeing Madrid fans attempting to be on the higher ground on this topic is laughable, having bought Lunin, Vinicius, Odegard (which are great players and a normal thing to do in the current market, with their trophy objectives and all).

the_bald_genius 8 years ago

10 1583

lol forget about expecting messi, academy sometimes can't produce sergi roberto, carvajal kind of player all the time.

Outlaw 8 years ago

Chelsea, Greece 0 580

It's coming home lads!

Sir_Frank 8 years ago

Chelsea, England 0 330

Thats actually pretty funny lolz

milanlamiavita 8 years ago

Bustese Milano City, Italy 4 3418

When it comes to technical ability, Spain are a whole generation ahead of England. They might've scuppered their own chances at the WC when leaving themselves manager-less before the first game, but the reality is that when it comes to pure footballing class, I'm not sure if there is a country on the planet that plays football in as fluid a manner as Spain. Unfortunately though, Spain are back to being how they were before David Villa. Lacking a killer goalscorer upfront. If they consistently had a top world class goalscorer throughout their history, they'd have a lot more than the one WC.

tawqir 8 years ago

Arsenal, Jamaica 4 548

England don't have technical ability? Yeah because young talents like kane alli rose rashford sterling welback wilshere woodburn lingard don't have any technical ability?

milanlamiavita 8 years ago

Bustese Milano City, Italy 4 3418

Firstly. I didn't say they didn't have technical ability. I clearly stated that Spain are superior. Secondly. No. Wilshere? Welbeck? Who is Woodburn? Are you referring to Ben Woodburn at Liverpool? Ben Woodburn is WELSH.

Kane - very good goalscorer.
Alli - very good player.
Sterling??

Do England have game changers? Flair players? Players who can do something out of the ordinary? Not a single one.

tawqir 8 years ago

Arsenal, Jamaica 4 548

Harry Maguire can look at his wc

milanlamiavita 8 years ago

Bustese Milano City, Italy 4 3418

He has a WC medal?

tawqir 8 years ago

Arsenal, Jamaica 4 548

I guess Messi and Ronaldo don't have technical ability looking at world cup medals. I applaud your logic. Bravo

milanlamiavita 8 years ago

Bustese Milano City, Italy 4 3418

What? You said he can look 'at his wc'. He doesn't have a wc. England beat Tunisia in the last moments and their biggest win was vs 69th ranked country in the world! Got outclassed not once but twice by Belgium and beaten by a nation of less than 5m. Who on earth is Harry maguire?

diehardbarca 8 years ago

Barcelona 0 1821

Spain taking this tournament seriously but first game of France and Germany was of poor quality. I hope this concept replaces meaningless international friendlies across all continents

LiverpoolKlopp 8 years ago

Liverpool FC, England 0 459

Maguire was poor today. And no flow in the team.

NikoGambit 8 years ago

0 49

LMAO He had never been good even before this game.

Zeshii 8 years ago

Manchester City, Canada 0 112

The english hype fools everyone

Gennady 8 years ago

Manchester United 285 3985

Get well soon Luke Shaw!

tuan_jinn 8 years ago

Manchester United, Netherlands 198 6914

He seems ok, thanks lord

JaapStam 8 years ago

Manchester United, Australia 2 268

Here, here. The boy will be back.

the_bald_genius 8 years ago

10 1583

rashford could have scored 2 goals lol, he needs to move to bundesliga if mourinho is not playing him at all, wasting time with his talent being sanchez backup.

NikoGambit 8 years ago

0 49

Mou needs to be sacked. He doesn't know how to develop talents. He only likes to use experienced players.

amir_keal 8 years ago

Arsenal, Netherlands 66 2895

England will get relegated at this rate. The defense repeatedly lose concentration for periods of the game, and the attack is not flowing with the mid. The more I see Kane, the more overrated I think he is. But then he seems more isolated with Rashford then Sterling. Welbeck comes and scores in like 3 minutes. Something has to change for them, because Spain was there for the taking.

Phenomenal 8 years ago

Chelsea, Netherlands 0 20

and we will most definitely also be relegated.

amir_keal 8 years ago

Arsenal, Netherlands 66 2895

Not yet really, we are playing decently actually. Though Germany and France are much stronger than us atm.

JuanMataLegend 8 years ago

Manchester United, Spain 0 179

UEFA Nations League makes football better

the_bald_genius 8 years ago

10 1583

true at least no more friendly mentality

delfin 8 years ago

Liverpool 0 239

I really hope so too.

Sir_Frank 8 years ago

Chelsea, England 0 330

Yeah too bad its only once in two years.

_Pelle_ 8 years ago

Paris Saint-Germain 161 6982

No it's not bad, because the other games will be WC and euro qualifiers. So it's not like there will be friendlies instead.

milanlamiavita 8 years ago

Bustese Milano City, Italy 4 3418

Only if you're Spain :) Because with this new format, we might actually get relegated ha ha. Un abrazo para ti, amigo!

LoveKavi 8 years ago

Manchester United, England 0 845

Once in two years is great. It fills the void between major tournaments

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