Comments and predictions for Bulgaria vs Spain: Knocking out the home team
The match between Bulgaria vs Spain World Cup Qualifiers takes place at 1:45 a.m. on September 5. Nghe An Newspaper analyzes performance, makes football comments and predicts the score.
Latest Bulgaria vs Spain team information
Goalkeeper Dimitar Mitov (Aberdeen) is likely to start for Bulgaria, but he still has to compete with Svetoslav Vutsov of Levski Sofia.
Coach Iliev could use a five-man defense to limit Spain's attacking prowess, with Nikolay Minkov, Kristian Dimitrov, Aleks Petkov, Anton Nedyalkov and Fabian Nurnberger.
Up front, Aleksandar Kolev is expected to start in place of Vladimir Nikolov in the striker position.
On the Spanish side, Gavi (Barcelona), Fabian Ruiz (PSG) and new signing Yeremy Pino (Crystal Palace) all withdrew from the squad due to injury.
Coach De la Fuente has called up midfielder Aleix Garcia (Bayer Leverkusen) and striker Jorge de Frutos (Rayo Vallecano).
Young star Lamine Yamal will hope to continue his fine form after scoring two goals and assisting three times in his opening three La Liga games for Barcelona.
Meanwhile, Ferran Torres could give way to Mikel Oyarzabal, but the former Man City striker will be hoping to make his 50th international appearance.
Latest expected lineup for Bulgaria vs Spain
Bulgaria:
Mitov; Minkov, Dimitrov, Petkov, Nedyalkov, Nurnberger; Despodov, Shopov, Gruev, Milanov;
Spain:
Simon; Porro, Le Normand, Huijsen, Cucurella; Pedri, Zubimendi, Olmo; Yamal, Williams, Oyarzabal
Latest football commentary on Bulgaria vs Spain
Bulgaria will return to competitive action after failing to qualify for the 2024-25 Nations League.
Ilian Iliev's side finished second in Group C3 with nine points from six games, forcing them into a promotion/relegation play-off against the Republic of Ireland. However, Bulgaria lost both games 2-1, meaning they will remain in League C when the Nations League returns in 2026.
Ahead of the World Cup qualifiers, Bulgaria had two disappointing friendlies in June: a 2-2 draw at home to Cyprus and a heavy 0-4 loss to Greece.
As the lowest-ranked team in the World Cup qualifying group, the Lions understand that the road to the finals for the first time since France 98 will be extremely thorny.
They will try to create a surprise in their first meeting with Spain since 2002, although their head-to-head record is not in their favour: they have lost four and drawn one of their last five encounters.
Spain will also have their first official match after missing the chance to defend their Nations League title.
“La Roja” overcame the Netherlands on penalties in the quarter-finals, then beat France 5-4 in the semi-finals to set up a final against Portugal.
However, in the final in Munich, they twice lost the lead and eventually fell 3-5 on penalties.
Now, Luis de la Fuente and his team will focus all their efforts on the 2026 World Cup qualifying campaign, with the goal of winning the world cup for the second time.
Based on their Nations League performance, Spain have already secured a play-off spot, but they are aiming to qualify directly for their 13th consecutive World Cup appearance.
Under De la Fuente, Spain have been particularly impressive away from home, going more than two years unbeaten in Euro qualifying since losing to Scotland in March 2023.
Latest score prediction for Bulgaria vs Spain
Based on the above football comments, we and the world's leading football sites have given the results of the match.Bulgaria vs Spainas follows:
- Sportsmole:Bulgaria 0-3 Spain
- WhoScore:Bulgaria 1-3 Spain
- Our newspaper predicts:Bulgaria 0-3 Spain
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