Individual Highlights Of David De Gea’s Superb MOTM Display For Spain

Russian Federation are returning to the European Championship for the fourth straight time, while Slovakia will be playing in the tournament for the first time as an independent nation.

Play-off places are confirmed for Sweden, Slovenia, Ukraine, Denmark and Ireland.

As it occurred, Slovakia’s patience were really invalid is an first Mario Gaspar goal and objective sent Spain a 1-0 beat the Ukrainians in…

Slovakia had to survive a late scare in Luxembourg to book their place in the finals as Group C runners-up behind winners Spain.

The Spanish manager made numerous changes including reinstating De Gea between the sticks as Spain had already qualified for Euros 2016, so the manager could rest key players.

Cesc Fabregas, captaining the side on his 100th worldwide appearance, won a penalty moments later but had his effort saved by Ukraine goalkeeper Andriy Pyatov.

Austria and England, both going into their last matches unbeaten, preserved those records with Austria beating Liechtenstein 3-0 in Vienna to wrap up their Group G campaign with nine wins and a draw from their 10 games, but England did even better.

Ukraine created many chances and breached Spain’s defence on several occasions, but they couldn’t penetrate the wide-stretched arms of De Gea, much to the disbelief of the opposition players.

Slovakia came into the final round of qualifiers level on points with Ukraine but knew a win at the Stade Josy Barthel would be enough and they were quickly 3-0 up thanks to goals by Marek Hamsik, Adam Nemec and Robert Mak.

The home side went into the match knowing a good victory was likely required with Slovakia heading to Luxembourg and second on goal difference.

They end the campaign second behind Spain while Ukraine will now look to the playoffs in order to reach the finals. It was a tiring, fun esta Western experience with a happy ending: Spain’s eighth win on the trot. He also warned that he has not yet decided and it is a good thing that “David has responded” when given the chance. “We could have killed the game with the penalty”.

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