Netherlands – Spain

It will be extremely difficult for the home team to outplay the Spanish side

The Spanish national team will start the Nations League quarter-final clash as tournament favourites. The bookmakers offer similar odds on Germany, but the reigning European champions have more advantages. Firstly, the Spaniards have an established team capable of producing results. This was proved last summer at the EURO. In addition, it is the Red Fury who are the reigning winners of the Nations League. In the final meeting of 2023, the team defeated Croatia on penalty shootout. The Netherlands have long not pleased fans with participation in the finals of major tournaments. "Orange" quite confidently passed the group stage, but won only two home games, when the opponents were Hungary, as well as Bosnia and Herzegovina. In the matches against Germany, who took the first place in the quartet the Netherlands lost away and drew at home. Bookmakers have identified the visitors as favourites for the upcoming meeting, offering odds of 2.35 on their victory. The Netherlands national team in the middle of the last decade experienced a very deep drop in class. For a long time "orange" revived, but the last two big tournaments showed that there are already results of the work of functionaries and players. At the World Cup in Qatar, the Dutch team very much in the play-offs "scuffed" Argentina, which let themselves pass only in a penalty shootout. Subsequently, as we all remember, Messi and company won the championship. At last year's UEFA EURO, the Oranje struggled to get out of the group, but had the easiest playoff spot in Romania and Turkey before the semi-finals. Already in the semi-finals, the Netherlands crashed out at the end of their meeting with England. The Spanish national team has dominated European football for the past few years. Given that the average age of the Red Fury players is 25.5 years old, this team will progress and improve the level of play even more. Spain's main ambition right now is to win the upcoming World Cup, but the Nation's League won't be spared either. The competition for a place in the squad is too high here, and you can drop out of the starting eleven after a couple of bad matches. We bet that the visitors will be closer to victory in the Netherlands.