2023-11-22 13:02:39

The first defeat suffered by Brazil in a World Cup Qualifier, By losing in Rio de Janeiro to Argentina 1-0, it made the Spanish team the only undefeated team at home on the way to a World Cup, as highlighted today by the Iberian press.

“Brazil’s setback makes Spain the only team that has never lost at home on the way to a world championship,” published the sports newspaper Marca, since until last year there were three teams that shared this honor: Italy, Brazil and Spain.

Italy was the first to give up that undefeated record with a painful defeat in the European playoff for Qatar once morest North Macedonia in March 2022 and last night Brazil left Spain as the only undefeated team following Nicolás Otamendi’s header, consummating a new ‘Maracanazo’, breaking that unbeaten record since 1954.

With the defeats of the Italians and Brazilians in consecutive years, Spain is the only team left with the record of being undefeated at home in a World Cup qualifying match. Since 1934 they have a total of 52 wins and 10 draws.

Spectacular figures that have made him not miss his appointment with a world championship since the one in Germany in 1974 in which he was left out following a defeat as a visitor once morest Yugoslavia.

The goal balance also denotes Spain’s superiority when playing on national territory. La “Roja” scored 182 goals, the last of them by Álvaro Morata once morest Sweden in La Cartuja, in Seville, and received only 28.

Spain’s record will remain at least until March 2025, when the qualifying phase begins in Europe for the next World Cup in the United States, Mexico and Canada.

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