Spain vs Germany. Prediction and Betting Tips for 2022 FIFA World Cup

Luis Enrique led his team to success in the first World Cup game and immediately became one of the main candidates for the role of head coach at Manchester United. The victory against Costa Rica was the highest-scoring victory of the Spanish national team at World Cups. That was also the first victory of Furia Roja in the opening game since 2006 World Cup.

Enrique was criticized for his choice of players before the World Cup, as he only kept one player (Sergio Busquets) from the legendary 2010 team in his squad. Last year, Spain were among the favourites at Euro-2020, but they only made it to the semifinals. In the semifinals match, Spain lost to the eventual champions, Italy. 

Guillamon remains sidelined with a knee injury. 

Germany national team suffered a shocking defeat to Japan (1:2) in the first World Cup game and must beat or draw Spain to retain a chance of qualifying for the playoffs. The two sides have recently met, and Spain crushed Germany with a score of 6:0. For the German side, that was their biggest defeat since 1931. 

That was one of the last games of Joachim Löw as head coach of Germany. Hansi Flick used to be Löw's assistant, and now it is up to him to avoid going home after the group stage, which is exactly what happened to Germany at the last World Cup.

The DFB-Team were excellent in the qualifying matches, but then delivered a disappointing performance in the Nations League. In the first World Cup game, Germany lost to Japan after taking the lead and winning the first half - the last time it happened to the team was back in 1978.