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Scheffler bogeys last for 71
Scottie Scheffler seems suddenly bereft of energy! He takes Texas wedge from just off the front of 18 … and severely underhits the putt, nine feet short! This has to go in, surely … and he steers the gentle left-to-right slider in for a damage-limiting bogey. That’s a rare shaft of light glinting from Scottie’s putter today, though it put him in that trouble in the first place. A 71, and he ends the day at -1. Just three off the lead, but with the leaderboard so crowded, the odds are stacked against him tomorrow unless he does something extremely special. Which, well, y’know … it’s not beyond the realms, is it?
McNealy and Smalley have plenty of green to work with, and both whisk their wedges out of the trap and down the slope to a couple of feet. Par, par, we move on. Then back to 18 … and Scheffler’s mojo, having threatened to desert him all day, finally does one. Sheffler’s third, a wedge up onto the green, hits the false front and dribbles back off. Can’t recall the last time he did something like that. A big up and down for Scheffler coming up; he can’t risk a double bogey, surely, with so many players in front of him on the leaderboard.
Maverick McNealy and Alex Smalley having followed each other into the cup on 13, now send their tee shots at 14 into the same bunker, front left. Meanwhile up on 18, Scottie Scheffler sends his drive into a fairway bunker down the right, and fails to reach the green with his splash out. All a bit careless.
Maverick McNealy joins the leaders! He walks in a 20-footer on 13. And then … Alex Smalley joins the leaders! He cleans up having wedged his second to five feet, and having started with three bogeys in the first four holes, the 29-year-old from Greensboro has battled back to where he started the day. Chris Gotterup meanwhile has a chance to do the same on the par-three 14th, but his 14-foot effort never looks like dropping. Gotterup remains at -3.
-4: Schmid (F), Taylor (F), Rahm (F), Rai (F), Åberg (F), McNealy (13), Smalley (13)
Ludvig Åberg couldn’t make his birdie on 17 … and it’s close but no cigar on 18 as well. But that’s a par-par finish, and he’s now in the clubhouse with a 68. A five-way tie at the top. Meanwhile Scottie Scheffler still can’t purchase one of those delicious birdies, a 30-foot rake across 17 drifting millimetres wide right. So close. More irritation, but despite a round during which he must have felt like wading through quicksand, he’s still level par for the day and just two off that five-way lead.
Scottie Scheffler can’t buy a putt today. He whips out of a deep bunker guarding the front of the par-five 16th, but can’t make the seven-footer he’s left with, the ball horseshoeing out. A bit of frustration creeping in.
67 for Rai
Aaron Rai gathers himself and wedges from just off the front of the 18th green to three feet. He cleans up for bogey, and he did extremely well to limit the damage there. A 67, and the 31-year-old from Wolverhampton is in with a great shout of becoming the first English winner of the PGA Championship since Jim Barnes in 1919. And while a dropped shot can never be ideal, avoiding the glare and pressure of being in the final group isn’t the worst outcome in the world. Silver linings, all that.
-4: Schmid (F), Taylor (F), Rahm (F), Rai (F), Åberg (17)
In fact Rai is 67 yards from the flag. But the exact yardage is neither here nor there, because he gets nowhere near the green with his splash out, decelerating and taking way too much sand. Every amateur golfer will feel his pain. This is going to cost him any chance of a place in the final group tomorrow.
Aaron Rai’s ball is tangled up in rough … and yet he considers it sitting up well enough to take his hybrid out. He fires it out low and hard, hoping to send the ball scuttling onto the putting surface, but he shoves it to the right, and it disappears into a bunker 50 yards shy of the green. Trouble ahoy.
Aaron Rai almost hooks his drive at 18 into the thick rough down the left. He trudges off after it. Meanwhile back on 17, Ludvig Åberg clips his tee shot pin high, and will have a look at birdie from 25 feet.
Ludvig Åberg sends a gentle fade into the par-five 16th. Pin high. But the 13-foot eagle putt somehow stays up on the left lip. Half a dimple to the right and that was dropping. He can’t believe it. That looked in all the way. Shame, because the approach deserved the eagle. The birdie takes him up to -4, though. Meanwhile Rai and Gotterup lag long putts to kick-in distance, on 17 and 11 respectively. Rai will be delighted to get through the treacherous 17th with his par; Gotterup will be reasonably pleased to have limited the damage to bogey, because that could have gotten ugly real quick. They’re -5 and -3 respectively.
The wind’s back up a little bit. Not dramatically so, but it’s got a bit of whip again. So hats off to Aaron Rai for finding the heart of the par-three 17th amid the swirl. Meanwhile back on 11, Chris Gotterup makes the fatal error of plonking his approach into the thick rough covering a hill behind the green. He has to whip out forcefully enough to get his ball out of the gunk, but land it softly on the fringe so it doesn’t dribble down the sloping green too much. He does all he can, chopping the ball high and sitting it down gently on the fringe, but it still rolls 50 feet past the flag. At least it didn’t keep going off the green, and like I say, the mistake was putting the ball in there in the first place.
… and back on 16, Rai isn’t able to make the 15-footer he’s left himself for birdie, but tidies up for par. Three-putting never feels good, but doing so from 82 feet draws a bit of the sting.
-5: Rai (15)
-4: Schmid (F), Taylor (F), Rahm (F), Gotterup (10)
-3: McIlroy (F), Schauffele (F), Reed (F), Åberg (15), Greyserman (12), McNealy (10), Smalley (10)
Rahm shoots 67
… there’s some disappointment for Jon Rahm on the last. He’s left with a three-footer for par, and he gives the putt a wee bit too much welly, playing through the gentle left-to-right break. It horseshoes out and that’s a bogey to finish. He’s -4 and Aaron Rai has the lead all to himself now.
At 554 yards, the par-five 16th is a whopping three yards longer than the par-four 15th. That’s just the way it is. And while Aaron Rai was unable to get a full connection to his second shot at 15 from rough down the left, on 16 he’s able, from a similar position, to arrow a low runner that scampers all the way onto the front of the green. But the putting surface is huge, and he’s left with an 80-footer for his eagle. He gets nowhere close. And I mean nowhere. Still a long way to go with his second putt. More on that anon, though, because …
A slightly disappointing end to the round for Patrick Reed. After birdies at 13 and 16, he appears to be closing out his third round in style as he screeches his approach at 18 from 147 yards pin high to four feet. But he misreads the birdie putt, which doesn’t drift left to right as he’d expected. That’s a 67, though, and at -3 overall the 2018 Masters champion is not out of this.
-5: Rahm (17), Rai (15), Gotterup (9)
-4: Schmid (F), Taylor (F)
-3: McIlroy (F), Schauffele (F), Reed (F), Åberg (14), Greyserman (11), McNealy (9)
Scottie Scheffler grips down on a 3-wood at the driveable par-four 13th. His tee shot trundles through the dancefloor and off the back, into deep nonsense. He still swishes out to four feet … but the old putter woes resurface, as he dribbles a weak effort wide left. That’s a poor miss. A par that’ll feel like a bogey.
Aaron Rai looks to be in a spot of bother on the monster 551-yard 15th, the longest par-four in major championship history. His drive disappears into the rough down the left, and he’s forced to gouge out. But left with 108 yards, he lands his wedge a few feet past the hole and spins it back to 17 inches. He’ll tidy that up for a par that’ll feel like a birdie.
Chris Gotterup has been going about his business quietly. Now he hits the turn in 33, after birdies at 6 and 9. He joins Aaron Rai in the lead at -5 … as does Jon Rahm, who birdies the other par-five on the course, the 16th. Gotterup and Rahm become the 43rd and 44th [subs please check] players to lead this tournament today.
Scottie Scheffler is re-energised. From the bunker guarding the front of 12, he splashes out to kick-in distance. For a split second, the ball looks like dropping for another birdie, but stubbornly shaves the lip. Scottie spins round with great god-darn-it feeling. He thought that was in. But he’s still just three off the lead at -2, and the wind’s dropped a bit, so field watch out.
Problems for Min Woo Lee at the par-five 9th. He’s over the back of the green, and he’s unable to get back up with his chip. He ends up with a double-bogey seven, dropping to -1 overall. Meanwhile on the huge 8th green, Maverick McNealy leaves himself a 100-foot putt (!) and clatters it eight feet past and wide left. He can’t make the next one, and there goes that blemish-free run of pars. He’s -3. But Aaron Rai makes a nerveless save on 14, despite knocking his first putt six feet long. Rai still holds the sole lead at -5.
Finally some positive momentum for Scottie Scheffler. He wedges his approach at 11 over the flag to ten feet, and steers in the downhill swinger, with big right-to-left movement. Very well judged, especially in the context of the much easier putts he’s missed this afternoon, and he pumps the air gently with his fist as the ball drops. He’s back where he started the day at -2.
An incredibly careless three-putt bogey from 15 feet by Ludvig Åberg on 12. Maverick McNealy makes a graceful sandy save from a deep bunker at 7, without too much green to work with. That’s his seventh par in a row today. The new pretender to Nick Faldo’s crown? Because Stephan Jaeger is busy ruining his own steady-as-she-goes reputation: after that run of 29 consecutive pars was broken by birdie, he’s then carded back-to-back bogeys, at 7 and 8, to drop away to -2.
Birdie for Jon Rahm on 14. Reward for a tee shot at the par-three sent from 203 yards to 13 feet, and a putt rodded home. Meanwhile news of a disastrous finish to Justin Thomas’s front nine: bogeys at 7, 8 and 9, and he clatters down the standings to -1.
-5: Rai (12)
-4: Schmid (F), Taylor (F), Rahm (14), Åberg (11), Gotterup (7), McNealy (7)
-3: McIlroy (F), Schauffele (F), Lee (8), Greyserman (8)
Taylor cards 65
Nick Taylor finds the heart of 18 in regulation, and has a 12-footer for birdie and a share of the lead. But he lets the putt slip by. Par, though, and he’s the latest player to scribble his name at the bottom of a 65. His playing partner and compatriot Corey Conners let things slip dreadfully, though: having made it up the leaderboard to -3, thanks in no small part to four consecutive birdies, 3 through 7, he bogeyed six of the last seven holes to sign for a spirit-sapping 72. He’s +3.
When Justin Thomas won his second PGA four years ago, he came back from a seven-shot deficit after 54 holes. That matched the PGA Championship record set by John Mahaffey in 1978. Thing is, there were just six players above Thomas on the leaderboard at that point; when Mahaffey did it, there were just four above him. Now this is purely for illustrative purposes, but right now there are 55 players within seven shots of the lead. Should Aaron Rai drop a shot, there’d be 65. Not entirely sure what I’m trying to say here, other than this leaderboard is glorious nonsense … and nobody will be coming back from seven behind this week, you can be pretty sure of that.
Schmid shoots 65
Matti Schmid pars the last to sign for a wonderful 65. It’s extra-special, as Paul McGinley on Sky points out, given he’s completed half of that round in wind stronger than the earlier starters played in. At -4, Schmid takes over the clubhouse lead from Rory McIlroy and Xander Schauffele.
No, hold on, make that four off the lead … because Aaron Rai rolls in a 15-footer on 11 for his third birdie on the bounce, and the popular Englishman grabs the lead for himself! Given no English player has won this title since Jim Barnes in 1919, I’ll have to update the leaderboard now. Because just look at it!
-5: Rai (11)
-4: Schmid (F), Taylor (16), Åberg (10), Jaeger (6), Gotterup (5), McNealy (5)
-3: McIlroy (F), Schauffele (F), Rahm (12), Lee (7), Greyserman (7)
Scottie Scheffler can only par the par-five 9th, and he turns in 36 strokes. Not the performance anyone expected. And yet he’s just three off the lead at -1.
Chris Gotterup joins the leaders. Birdie at 6. This is getting old. I’m not updating the leaderboard yet. I’m not sulking, I just … I just can’t. I will soon, promise.
… so how did Stephan Jaeger join the leaders? Well, the simple answer is, with birdie at 6. But what’s really eye-opening is that the birdie snaps a run of 29 consecutive pars. That run makes Nick Faldo look like Maurice Flitcroft.
Make that a round dozen. The 38-year-old Canadian Nick Taylor is on a heater: birdies at 3, 6, 9, 14 and now 16, and he’s joined the ever-growing pack at -4. Two pars and he’ll match Kristoffer Reitan, Chris Kirk and Justin Rose’s best-of-day 65s. Meanwhile one par for Matti Schmid and he’ll have done that, after parring 17.
-4: Schmid (17), Taylor (16), Rai (10), Åberg (9), Jaeger (6), McNealy (4)
It’s been an up-and-down round for Min Woo Lee so far. Bogeys at 3 and 4, followed by birdies at 5 and 6. The latter birdie was a swashbuckling affair: a 380-yard tee shot at the driveable par-four, into the heart of the green … then an aggressive eagle putt that races six feet past. But he makes the one coming back … and now he’s set up another birdie chance at 7. Meanwhile back-to-back birdies for Aaron Rai, at 9 and 10, and according to Sky Sports (because I’m certainly not going back to count) he becomes the 11th different leader today! It’s quite the leaderboard all right.
Matti Schmid is looking to become just the third male major champion of all time, behind Bernard Langer and Martin Kaymer. The 28-year-old hasn’t come close before: his silver medal for low amateur at the 2021 Open at Sandwich, which saw him finish in a tie for 59th, is still his best effort in any major. But on PGA Championship debut this week, he’s finally making his presence felt. Birdies at 13, 14 and now 16 have whisked him into a share of the lead. And he’s joined there by Ludvig Åberg, after birdies at 4, 6 and 9. Many think Åberg’s major breakthrough, which surely will happen sooner or later, is most likely to come at Augusta, but here we are. This is quite the leaderboard.
-4: Schmid (16), Åberg (9), McNealy (3)
-3: McIlroy (F), Schauffele (F), Taylor (15), Rahm (11), Rai (9), Thomas (7), Lee (6), Jaeger (5), Gotterup (4)
-2: 15 players, life’s still going along at way too quickly a clip
Scottie Scheffler follows up one three-putt bogey with another. His tee shot into the par-three 8th nearly finds a bunker at the front. Instead it pings off the shoulder, to the right and then back to the front of the big green. His first putt up and over a ridge sails five feet wide left, and his uncertain par prod dribbles wide right of the green. Some shocked mumbling from the gallery, who haven’t seen Scottie putt like this since the early stage of his career, before something clicked with the flat stick and he went stellar. He’s back down to -1, and his expected charge across this supposedly easier front nine simply hasn’t materialised.
The wind is beginning to pick up now. Flags whipping. Trouser legs flapping. It’s not causing Justin Thomas any problems yet, though. The two-time champion birdies 5 and 6 to join the leaders. Meanwhile up on 18, Xander Schauffele pars the last to match Rory McIlroy’s 66, while Rickie Fowler signs for a blemish-free 68. They’re -3 and -1 respectively.
-4: Rahm (10), Thomas (6), McNealy (2)
-3: McIlroy (F), Schauffele (F), Schmid (15), Taylor (14), Åberg (8), Jaeger (4), Gotterup (3)
-2: 17 players, life’s too short
A careless bogey for Scottie Scheffler on 7. He gets a good break with his drive, which looked to be heading for the rough, but takes a bounce back onto the fairway. But he doesn’t take advantage. Distance control uncharacteristically awry, he flies the flag, and can’t get down in two putts from a higher portion of the green. Back to -2 for Scottie, and gaining and keeping momentum has been an issue for the world number one all week. Meanwhile Aldrich Potgieter fails to get up and down from greenside sand at 3 and hands the shot he’d just picked up straight back to the field. He slips out of the joint lead.
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In the opening half an hour against Cape Verde, Mikel Oyarzabal, the centre-forward, did not get a single touch.
Kyle Green gets in touch: “Your highlighting of Lalas and his absurdity is something that has prevented me from wanting to watch the coverage on Fox. While every channel has its pros and cons I just can’t.
“I’m 45 and probably the youngest of anyone who remembers him as a player instead of an opinionated insert insult here. As for the match this could be more competitive than it looks on paper Spain need a win the pressure is on them. Saudi Arabia could hold out for a draw and see what happens in their last match. “
News from the England camp, and it seems to be good news on Declan Rice.
“I’m ready and fit, raring to go. I was feeling a little bit of neural pain in my hamstring, which I was managing from after Christmas with Arsenal for a very long time. Obviously, not a lot of people would have known that. It was all behind-the-scenes stuff but it was a smart decision.
“In the end, that last 20 minutes is probably where you pick up the most, and it’s where you play a 70-minute match. But that last 20 is where you really feel your body going for it. And I think it was a smart decision because the last few days I felt really, really good.”
Alex Reid has penned today’s weekend special Football Daily.
Portugal v Uzbekistan on Tuesday enticingly pits the incredibly nice, incredibly 41-year-old-superstar-tolerant Roberto Martínez against Fabio Cannavaro, who’s won a Ballon d’Or as a player and the Chinese Super League as a coach. While the fixture following that game really does see the dream of Thomas Tuchel – in his first international job with England – taking on Queiroz, who is in charge of his ninth national side with Ghana.
The expected formations are 4-2-3-1 for Spain, and 5-3-2 for the Saudi Arabians.
The Saudi team features two Donis changes: Ali Lajami, a defender, and Nasser Al Dawsari, a midfielder, are preferred to Mohammed Abu Al Shamat and Mohamed Kanno. You may recall Salem Al Dawsari, the Saudi captain, as the man who scored the winner against Argentina.
An entertaining read, even for those of us who have just seen the clips.
In a conversation where his co-panelist is casually reminiscing about his days playing alongside Messi or exchanging shirts with Ronaldo Nazário at the World Cup, what exactly is Lalas going to talk about – coming on as a second-half substitute for Earnie Stewart in a friendly against Scotland in 1998? Helping the Kansas City Wizards finish last in the 1999 MLS Western Conference? Did Lalas enjoy an elite playing career? No. But does he do the background reading that could compensate for his relative lack of standing in a conversation with titans like Henry and Zlatan? Also no. But is he charming or funny or charismatic or otherwise magnetic on screen? Eh, no.
For the record, I once interviewed Alexi Lalas on the challenge of playing against Romario in the 1994 World Cup. He had this to say:
“He could kill you in so many different ways. If you remember from that World Cup, he scored so many types of goals. That ranged from solo adventures to an outside-of-the-right-foot half-volley off a corner kick. Romario was both the most difficult to play against and the best that I have faced.
“Roberto Baggio was doing his thing, but in terms of consistency and living up to the hype, he [Romario] was the best. As with all stars, there was a moment when the fans sit up in their seats, and that was a feeling I got with Romario. When it got close to him and the potential for his involvement in a play was there, everybody sat up in their seat. They knew that something spectacular would be happening.”
Saturday’s match reports here.
The Saudi Arabia coach, and Blackburn legend, Georgios Donis, spoke about the challenges facing his team: “Spain is not the same team when Yamal or Williams are on the bench.
“While they still have plenty of possession, they lack the individual one-on-one penetration when these two are missing. I’m not saying it’s a problem for Spain, but when those players are missing, they play in a different way. We saw this very clearly against Cape Verde.
“We are playing against one of the best teams in the world, and it’s very important that when you play against these kinds of teams, you should enjoy the experience and respect the opponent, but not too much.
“It is very hard for any team playing against Spain to have any time in possession. So what we must do is to be more in control of our movement and compact, and when the ball goes through the lines, be able to defend dynamically.
“It’s nice to see miracles in football, and we’ve seen favourites losing against underdogs. Of course, it’s great for Saudi football to have a great memory of the result against Argentina, but we aren’t drawing anything from that.
“I think we’ll feel more pressure in that [Cape Verde] game than we will against Spain.”
The Spain coach, Luis De La Fuente had this to say in his Saturday press conference: “This generation of footballers is highly competitive and really fired up… It’s going to be a completely different story,” he said at his pre-match press conference on Saturday. There is no drama or crisis. The bottom line is simply that we need to win tomorrow.”
Four changes for Spain: Lamine Yamal, Pedro Porro, Dani Olmo and Alex Baena also come into the side with Marcos Llorente, Fabian Ruiz, Ferran Torres and Gavi dropping out.
The teams – Lamine Yamal starts
Spain: Simon, Porro, Cubarsi, Laporte, Cucurella, Gonzalez, Rodri, Yamal, Olmo, Baena, Oyarzabal. Subs: Raya, Joan Garcia, Pubill, Grimaldo, Eric Garcia, Llorente, Merino, Torres, Fabian, Gavi, Pino, Williams, Zubimendi, Munoz, Iglesias.
Saudi Arabia: Al Owais, Abdulhamid, Tambakti, Lajami, Al Amri, Al Harbi, Nasser Al Dawsari, Al Khaibari, Al Juwayr, Al Buraikan, Salem Al Dawsari. Subs: Al Aqidi, Al Kassar, Majrashi, Yahya, Al Shehri, Al Boushal, Kadesh, Al Johani, Al Ghannam, Al Hajji, Al Hamdan, Mandash, Kanno, Thakri, Abu Al Shamat.
Referee: Raphael Claus (Brazil)
Perhaps one of the Saudi -players can write themselves into this high-grade selection?
Perhaps it can be their goalkeeper.
Madrid screening of Spain v Saudi Arabia cancelled due to heat
The public screening of Spain’s World Cup match against Saudi Arabia in Madrid on Sunday has been cancelled because of extreme heat forecast for the Spanish capital, officials said.
The match, due to kick off at 6pm local time on Sunday, had been scheduled to be shown on a giant screen installed by the Spanish football federation (RFEF) at a fan zone in Plaza de Colón in central Madrid.
Madrid city council and the federation decided to cancel the screening after national weather agency AEMET issued an orange heat warning – the second-highest level – for the Madrid region, with temperatures forecast to reach 40C.
“The decision has been taken with the aim of protecting the health of attendees, event staff and support services involved in the event,” Madrid city hall said in a statement, apologising for any inconvenience.
Officials urged supporters to watch the match indoors in air-conditioned spaces and avoid prolonged exposure to the heat.
Large parts of Spain are experiencing unusually high temperatures for June as a mass of hot air from North Africa moves across the Iberian Peninsula.
A total of 13 of Spain’s 17 regions are on orange alert for heat on Sunday, while the northern Basque Country bordering France is on red alert, the highest level.
Authorities advised residents and visitors to take precautions during the heatwave, including drinking water regularly, staying in cool environments, limiting outdoor physical activity during the hottest hours of the day and taking extra care of vulnerable people. AFP
Can Saudi Arabia repeat the magic of 2022?
Argentina arrived in Qatar on a 36-game unbeaten run. When Lionel Messi opened the scoring from the penalty spot after 10 minutes, a comfortable afternoon seemed in the offing. Saleh al-Shehri and Salem al-Dawsari had other ideas, Argentina had three goals disallowed for offside in the space of 13 minutes and the greatest comeback in Saudi Arabia football history was made. Argentina went on to lift the trophy, while defeats to Poland and Mexico meant the Saudis did not reach the knock-out stage.
Unai Simon over David Raya is a controversial choice for De la Fuentes. The Arsenal keeper could lay claim to being Europe’s best this season.
“Those at the Champions League final had a few more days, so I got there on the Wednesday night,” Raya says. “I arrived a bit before Fabián [Ruiz]. I was saying hello to some of the others in reception when he arrived. I went to say congratulations; that was almost the first thing I did. I couldn’t really talk [to him] after the final; I just didn’t have it in me. The next day we talked about the game properly. Just two mates chatting … I was happy for him that he could lift the trophy for a second time.”
A high pressure game for the European champions, as Sid Lowe reports.
“If we had scored one, the game would have changed,” Martín Zubimendi said. Immediately after the game, De la Fuente had offered a simple analysis: when the ball doesn’t want to go in it doesn’t want to go in, he insisted. Spain had racked up 27 shots, after all. Ferran Torres had hit the bar and seen another clear opportunity saved. Vozinha, the 40-year-old goalkeeper who stopped that, saved six more and was named the man of the match. “There’s nothing to reproach the team for,” Rodri said. “We generated chances but couldn’t put it away; the good thing is they created almost nothing.”
We wait to see what role Lamine Yamal will play today. His coach would surely like to be able to use him.
The worst mistake we could make would be to compare him to anyone. He is the midst of a process. He has exceptional footballing maturity and lives it all with total naturalness. He has great serenity and strength. We have to let him follow his path but those players who have something different are ready for that. They’re geniuses, like Dalí [who] can paint a picture, or Michelangelo. They’re different. What is exceptional to us, isn’t to them. In those extremes, they feel comfortable. Why? Because they are different. What we think is exceptional, they consider normal.
Preamble
Spain’s campaign did not get off to a flying start, and Luis de la Fuentes may wake up in the night to visions of Cape Verde’s Vozinha. He will have Georgia on his mind ever since Monday. Saudi Arabia are no pushovers and gave Uruguay a scare in their opening match. Memories of downing Argentina four years ago still abound, and so Spain might beware. They can ill afford to go into the final game with Uruguay at a disadvantage. All eyes on Lamine Yamal, whose fitness situation remains opaque, though Spain need their other forwards to come to the party.
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