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15 June 2026 97 comments
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Much-fancied Spain get their World Cup campaign underway on Monday, when they face Cape Verde.

La Roja are considered one of the favourites to win this tournament, so they should, in theory, find it relatively easy to overcome the World Cup newcomers.

Kick-off in Atlanta is at 17:00 BST.

TEAM NEWS

Lamine Yamal and Nico Williams are only fit enough for the bench after injury.

With an ownership of nearly 40%, Yamal is the fourth most-owned player in World Cup Fantasy.

Spain’s two other most-owned players, Marc Cucurella and Mikel Oyarzabal, are both included in Luis de la Fuente’s starting line-up.

Unai Simon is preferred to David Raya in goal, while Marcos Llorente gets the nod over Pedro Porro at right-back.

No Cape Verde player features in more than 0.6% of Fantasy squads.

LINE-UPS

Spain XI: Simon, Llorente, Cubarsi, Laporte, Cucurella, Pedri, Rodri, Ruiz, Torres, Gavi, Oyarzabal

Subs: Raya, J Garcia, Pubill, Grimaldo, E Garcia, Porro, Merino, Baena, Zubimendi, Olmo, Pino, Williams, Yamal, Munoz, Iglesias

Cape Verde XI: Vozinha, Moreira, Lopes, Borges, S Cabral, K Pina, L Duarte, Mendes, Monteiro, J Cabral, Livramento

Subs: Rosa, dos Santos, Stopira, Costa, W Pina, Pires, Paulo, D Duarte, Y Semedo, Arcanjo, Benchimol, Rodrigues, W Semedo, da Costa, Varela


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  1. Jafooli
    • 14 Years
    11 hours, 44 mins ago

    Pedri YC lol…stopping a breakaway…

  2. x.jim.x
    • 11 Years
    11 hours, 44 mins ago

    As predicted, Spain are doing nowt this tournament

  3. GreennRed
    • 14 Years
    11 hours, 43 mins ago

    Up the Dubs 🙂

  4. Jafooli
    • 14 Years
    11 hours, 42 mins ago

    CV now joint favourites….

  5. Thanos
    • 4 Years
    11 hours, 42 mins ago

    Wirtz outscores Oryabazal 😆

    What S**t housery 🙁

  6. Nomar
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 16 Years
    11 hours, 42 mins ago

    Amazing! Who had this on their bingo card as the first 0-0 of the tournament?

  7. Bobby Digital
    • 8 Years
    11 hours, 42 mins ago

    Scandalous

  8. Freshy
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 15 Years
    11 hours, 42 mins ago

    Thing is Cape Verde isnt just fouling to draw

    Total fouls
    Spain 10 fouls
    Cape Verde 1

  9. Jafooli
    • 14 Years
    11 hours, 41 mins ago

    CV GK player of the match, surly…

    1. Nomar
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 16 Years
      11 hours, 37 mins ago

      Their number 8 was immense!

  10. Jafooli
    • 14 Years
    11 hours, 40 mins ago

    Sub on Ronaldo for Oryabazal?

    1. Bobby Digital
      • 8 Years
      11 hours, 31 mins ago

      😆

  11. boc610
    • 14 Years
    11 hours, 40 mins ago

    spain just cant kick their tippy tappy habit. they've relapsed again.

    1. GreennRed
      • 14 Years
      11 hours, 35 mins ago

      Any style would struggle against Cape Verde defence tonight. Spain looked complacent, expecting a walk in the park. Bar Cucurella and Pedri can't remember too many of them doing the hard work.

      1. boc610
        • 14 Years
        11 hours, 31 mins ago

        not sure about that. a posession based style would fair the worst imo, let them have some attacks and then break but keeping the ball and letting them defend lots pointless sideway passes and crosses is what they where set up for and spain duly delivered

        1. GreennRed
          • 14 Years
          11 hours, 19 mins ago

          They were sussed alright. Hopefully CV coach has as good plans v Saudi and Uruguay with a few goals included.

  12. keefy59
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    11 hours, 40 mins ago

    So the Cape Verde defensive scouting bonus triple up was the way to go
    Who'd have thought it ?

  13. Kroenius
      11 hours, 38 mins ago

      Absolute cinema. Hopefully they saved all the goals for us Belgians (in Egypt's goal,that would be helpful too)

    • The Bandit
      • 15 Years
      11 hours, 37 mins ago

      Cape Verde Islands population is smaller than Bristol 😆

      1. Nomar
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 16 Years
        11 hours, 37 mins ago

        They are way better than either of our cities 2 clubs, though!

    • BeaversWithAttitude
      • 7 Years
      11 hours, 35 mins ago

      Statues of Vozinha being thrown up all over Cape Verde as we speak, lol!

    • JBG
      • 8 Years
      11 hours, 31 mins ago

      Egypt x2 goals would be nice

    • bso
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      11 hours, 30 mins ago

      Is Saudi going to follow the Cape Verde plan?

    • ow00019
      • 10 Years
      11 hours, 28 mins ago

      Does anyone know what is considered a chance created? Haven't seen a midfielder credited with a point for it yet and that includes Gravenberch who was credited with 2 assists

    • Christina.
      • 16 Years
      11 hours, 23 mins ago

      lets do this egypt

    • CoracAld2831
      • 5 Years
      11 hours, 12 mins ago

      Late post:

      Spain played right into Cape Verde's hands who played a very defensive masterclass match and gained a valuable draw. Spain will almost feel like they lost this.

      1. CoracAld2831
        • 5 Years
        11 hours, 10 mins ago

        Also a very valuable win for Ivory Coast and an impressive win for Sweden.

      2. CoracAld2831
        • 5 Years
        11 hours, 9 mins ago

        Also Vozinha was pretty impressive in goal.

    • BeaversWithAttitude
      • 7 Years
      11 hours, 6 mins ago

      C'mon, KDB! I never stopped believing in you! x

    • GreennRed
      • 14 Years
      11 hours, 3 mins ago

      Pico Lopes. The Cape Verde centre back from Dublin.

      https://youtu.be/kMglO36segA?is=z446PlE4ZMdQLQT1