World Cup: two years ago, almost to the day, Spain defeated Germany

Under pressure after their inaugural defeat against Japan (2-1), Germany are preparing to meet Spain on Sunday, who fell Costa Rica 7-0 on Wednesday, with a nightmare already haunting them: November 17, 2020 , La Roja had defeated Mannschaft 6-0 in the League of Nations.

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A revamped Spain team

Behind closed doors at the Cartuja stadium in Seville (southern Spain), we are playing the last day of the 2020/21 Nations League, a few weeks after the historic 8-2 inflicted in August by Bayern Munich on Lionel Messi's FC Barcelona in the Champions League quarter-finals in Lisbon.

Deprived of its master to play Sergio Busquets, Spain fears such a humiliation.

The country is wondering what this Roja, young and largely overhauled by Luis Enrique, coach who returned to his head a year earlier, is worth.

Doubts will quickly give way to smiles: three goals in the first period, three in the second, with a magnificent hat-trick from young winger Ferran Torres (33rd, 55th, 72nd).

Spain inflicts on Germany one of the most resounding setbacks in its history, to rally the final four of the League of Nations.

We have to go back to a friendly match against Austria in 1931 (6-0) to find traces of Germany's defeat by such a gap.

In official competition, it is quite simply the worst defeat in the history of the Mannschaft.

A defeat that accelerates the change of coach in Germany

This defeat will also accelerate the exit of the German coach in office since 2006 and winner of the World Cup-2014.

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the day after this bitter failure, questioning the choices of the technician, who had decided to do without the three world champions and thirtysomethings Thomas Müller, Jérôme Boateng and Mats Hummels, dismissed after elimination in the first round of the 2018 World Cup in Russia.

Four months after this rout, in March 2021, Löw announced that he would leave the selection at the end of the Euro, the following summer.

From now on, it is his former assistant Hansi Flick who replaces him at the head of the Mannschaft, with always the same defensive difficulties, further highlighted by the recent German performances.

Spain, on the other hand, can rely on this reference match, which then launched La Roja towards the semi-finals of the Euro and the final of the League of Nations in the summer of 2021.

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