{"id":672586,"date":"2026-07-19T13:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T17:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=672586"},"modified":"2026-07-19T13:42:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T17:42:21","slug":"spain-vs-argentina-confirmed-lineups-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/07\/19\/spain-vs-argentina-confirmed-lineups-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain vs Argentina Confirmed Lineups for July 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These are the Spain vs Argentina confirmed lineups for the World Cup final. The Spaniards beat the hot favourite France team in a dominant display that saw them boss their way to a 2-0 win and hold on comfortably to get the win. Their opponents have done things the other way, having hectic come-from-behind wins in high-scoring outings throughout their campaign; while one team has been in control, the Argentines have thrived in chaos. That control will meet chaos in a match that is sure to be decided by the small moments.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/07\/19\/spain-vs-argentina-predicted-lineups\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Spain vs Argentina Predicted Lineups for July 19<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Spain vs Argentina Confirmed Lineups &amp; Team News for World Cup Final<\/h2>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"max-width: 600px\"><smartframe-embed class=\"smartframe_wp_element\" customer-id=\"b0c95bc04383cef69c6b47df872135cf\" image-id=\"WmOB52YLJijW\" style=\"width: 100%; display: inline-flex; max-width: 5000px; aspect-ratio: 5000\/3332;\" ><\/smartframe-embed><\/p>\n<h3>Spain Team News<\/h3>\n<p>The focus will be on the health of both Nico Williams and Pedri. Pedri started most of the tournament matches but was only utilised for a 15 minute cameo against France. There were no indications that this was injury-related and could have been purely tactical, so he is likely fit. Williams is another case, at this point he may have missed any chance to start the final due to his <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/why-nico-williams-isnt-playing-184337499.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">niggling injuries<\/a> as he&#8217;s been limited to just cameos so far.<\/p>\n<h3>Argentina Team News<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/sport\/football\/world-cup-2026-injury-latest-mbappe-henderson-guehi-rice-james-b3015784.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facundo Medina<\/a> is the big absence for the nation, having started the tournament as the first-choice left-back he has missed the knockout phase for the most part. Veteran Nicolas Tagliafico has been able to deputise for him in his absence.<\/p>\n<h3>Spain World Cup Squad<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Unai Simon<\/li>\n<li>David Raya<\/li>\n<li>Joan Garcia<\/li>\n<li>Pedro Porro<\/li>\n<li>Marcos Llorente<\/li>\n<li>Aymeric Laporte<\/li>\n<li>Pau Cubarsi<\/li>\n<li>Marc Pubill<\/li>\n<li>Eric Garcia<\/li>\n<li>Marc Cucurella<\/li>\n<li>Alejandro Grimaldo<\/li>\n<li>Rodri<\/li>\n<li>Martin Zubimendi<\/li>\n<li>Pedri<\/li>\n<li>Fabian Ruiz<\/li>\n<li>Mikel Merino<\/li>\n<li>Gavi<\/li>\n<li>Alex Baena<\/li>\n<li>Mikel Oyarzabal<\/li>\n<li>Lamine Yamal<\/li>\n<li>Ferran Torres<\/li>\n<li>Borja Iglesias<\/li>\n<li>Dani Olmo<\/li>\n<li>Victor Munoz<\/li>\n<li>Nico Williams<\/li>\n<li>Yeremy Pino<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Argentina World Cup Squad<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Juan Musso<\/li>\n<li>Geronimo Rulli<\/li>\n<li>Emi Martinez<\/li>\n<li>Marcos Senesi<\/li>\n<li>Nicolas Tagliafico<\/li>\n<li>Gonzalo Montiel<\/li>\n<li>Lisandro Martinez<\/li>\n<li>Cristian Romero<\/li>\n<li>Nicolas Otamendi<\/li>\n<li>Facundo Medina<\/li>\n<li>Nahuel Molina<\/li>\n<li>Leandro Paredes<\/li>\n<li>Rodrigo De Paul<\/li>\n<li>Valentin Barco<\/li>\n<li>Giovani Lo Celso<\/li>\n<li>Ezequiel Palacios<\/li>\n<li>Nico Gonzalez<\/li>\n<li>Alexis Mac Allister<\/li>\n<li>Enzo Fernandez<\/li>\n<li>Julian Alvarez<\/li>\n<li>Lionel Messi<\/li>\n<li>Thiago Almada<\/li>\n<li>Giuliano Simeone<\/li>\n<li>Nico Paz<\/li>\n<li>Jose Manuel Lopez<\/li>\n<li>Lautaro Martinez<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Spain Confirmed Lineup<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Unai Simon<\/li>\n<li>Pedro Porro<\/li>\n<li>Pau Cubarsi<\/li>\n<li>Aymeric Laporte<\/li>\n<li>Marc Cucurella<\/li>\n<li>Rodri<\/li>\n<li>Fabian Ruiz<\/li>\n<li>Dani Olmo<\/li>\n<li>Alex Baena<\/li>\n<li>Lamine Yamal<\/li>\n<li>Mikel Oyarzabal<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Argentina Confirmed Lineup<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Emi Martinez<\/li>\n<li>Montiel<\/li>\n<li>Cristian Romero<\/li>\n<li>Lisandro Martinez<\/li>\n<li>Nicolas Tagliafico<\/li>\n<li>Rodrigo De Paul<\/li>\n<li>Enzo Fernandez<\/li>\n<li>Alexis Mac Allister<\/li>\n<li>Nico Gonzalez<\/li>\n<li>Messi<\/li>\n<li>Julian Alvarez<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Featured image Credit<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>IMAGO \/ Action Plus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are the Spain vs Argentina confirmed lineups for the World Cup final. The Spaniards beat the hot favourite France team in a dominant display that saw them boss their way to a 2-0 win and hold on comfortably to get the win. Their opponents have done things the other way, having hectic come-from-behind wins [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":656119,"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":[979,439],"class_list":["post-672586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-football","category-news","category-starting-line-up","category-world-cup","tag-argentina","tag-spain"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672586","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=672586"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":672596,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672586\/revisions\/672596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}