{"id":671056,"date":"2026-06-21T06:47:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T10:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=671056"},"modified":"2026-06-21T06:47:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T10:47:18","slug":"spain-predicted-lineup-team-news-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/06\/21\/spain-predicted-lineup-team-news-saudi-arabia\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain Predicted Lineup & Team News vs Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a Spain predicted lineup for their second group stage game against Saudi Arabia. One of the tournament favourites, the Spaniards got off to a poor start as they drew 0-0 with Cape Verde in one of the shocks of the tournament so far. They are easing in star attackers Nico Williams and Lamine Yamal but that won’t be a worthy excuse when there’s talent like Ferran Torres capable of subbing in and playing. Let’s take a look at the latest team news and try to predict the XI Luis de la Fuente will go with.<\/p>\n

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Spain Predicted Lineup vs Saudi Arabia for June 21<\/h2>\n

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Spain Team News<\/h3>\n

Updates on anyone other than Yamal have been tough to come by so Williams is likley still unable to play much after getting a short cameo in the tournament opener. Victor Munoz could remain sidelined. Regarding the Barcelona attacker, the latest was a vague hint<\/a> that he could play 45 minutes, according to the manager.<\/p>\n

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There will likely be no changes to the starting unit from the opening fixture with the injured names continuing to be slowly revved up to speed to play more minutes come the knockout phase.<\/p>\n

Spain Recent Tactics & Starters<\/h3>\n

De La Fuente plays a strict 4-3-3 that is used in tiki-taka setups like Luis Enrique’s. The trio in midfield is Rodri, Fabian Ruiz and Pedri with Mikel Oyarzabal the striker who fits the system. Unai Simon is the first choice goalkeeper behind Marcos Llorente, Pau Cubarsi, Aymeric Laporte, and Marc Cucurella.<\/p>\n

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The surprises against Cape Verde came on the wings where Gavi was chosen to play left wing instead of his usual midfield spot. Torres started on the right and was wasteful with his chances. Picking a midfielder instead of a natural winger came back to bite the manager but he may not learn his lesson.<\/p>\n

Spain Predicted Lineup vs Saudi Arabia<\/h3>\n

GK – Unai Simon<\/p>\n

LB – Marc Cucurella<\/p>\n

CB – Pau Cubarsi<\/p>\n

CB – Aymeric Laporte<\/p>\n

RB – Marcos Llorente<\/p>\n

DM – Rodri<\/p>\n

CM – Fabian Ruiz<\/p>\n

CM – Pedri<\/p>\n

W – Gavi<\/p>\n

ST – Mikel Oyarzabal<\/p>\n

W – Ferran Torres<\/p>\n

Featured Image Credit<\/strong><\/p>\n

CREDIT: IMAGO \/Sipa USA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a Spain predicted lineup for their second group stage game against Saudi Arabia. One of the tournament favourites, the Spaniards got off to a poor start as they drew 0-0 with Cape Verde in one of the shocks of the tournament so far. They are easing in star attackers Nico Williams and Lamine […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":643351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[161,30,1831,2132],"tags":[439],"class_list":["post-671056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-football","category-news","category-starting-line-up","category-world-cup","tag-spain"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671056"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":671149,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671056\/revisions\/671149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}