Germany travel to Spain in repeat of Euro 2008 final

Spain face Germany in an international friendly match at Estadio de Balaidos on Tuesday night in a repeat of the European Championship Final of 2008, where Spain came out on top.

Spain come in to the match following a comfortable 3-0 home victory over Belarus in Euro 2016 qualifying Group C. That victory sees Vicente del Bosque`s men in second place in the group on 9 points from 4 games played, the same record as Ukraine who sit one place below them on goal difference. It will be between these two countries and the current group leaders Slovakia for the two automatic qualifying positions in the group. The bookmakers have Spain as favourites to win this game against at 6/5 with SkyBet.

Despite not being able to find the back of the net against Belarus, Valencia`s Paco Alcacer has been in good goal scoring form for both club and country. The young striker has scored in each of Spain`s three qualifying matches prior to the recent game against Belarus and has also scored 4 goals in La Liga this season. With Diego Costa likely to miss the game through injury, Alcacer will continue in the starting eleven and is priced at 6/1 with BetVictor to get the opening goal of the game. Mainly operating off the substitutes bench for his club Juventus, Alvaro Morata has done well to score 4 goals from just 1 start and 6 substitute appearances and del Bosque may see this friendly as the perfect time to give the striker his chance in the Spanish national team. Morata is available at 2/1 with betfred to score at any time.

Germany travel to Spain on the back of their easiest international fixture for some time, a comfortable 4-0 home win over Gibraltar, a team that in truth, Germany would have expected to beat by an even larger scoreline than they did. Joachim Low`s team have not been in great form since lifting the world cup in Brazil and are 23/10 with BetVictor to leave Spain with a victory under their belts.

Low is likely to make some changes to the team that beat Gibraltar and it has been confirmed that key players such as goalkeeper Manuel Neuer and defender Jerome Boateng will miss the match through injury. However, one player who is fit to start is forward Thomas Muller, who is in great goal scoring form yet again this season and has netted a brace twice against both Scotland in September and more recently against Gibraltar. The Bayern Munich man is 13/2 with ladbrokes to open the goal scoring against Spain. Young Hoffenheim striker Kevin Volland is in line to make only his third ever appearance for Germany and will be keen to get his first goal for his country. Volland is available at 3/1 with ladbrokes to score at any time during the match.

Spain have won each of the last three meetings between the countries, two of which were huge wins in the 2008 European Championships final and the 2010 World Cup semi-final. Both of these were 1-0 wins and based on that we could expect a similarly low scoring affair again this time around. However, the importance of the occasion will not be such a factor in this match and there has been 17 goals scored in Germany`s last 5 matches and the figures are exactly the same for Spain. Therefore, on current form there is a good chance there will be over 2.5 goals in this game which can be backed at evens with paddypower. Given the current form of the two teams, Spain with 2 wins from their last 3 games and Germany with just 1 victory from their last 3, the Spanish are slight favourites and BetVictor offer 16/5 for Spain to win with both teams to score.

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