{"id":1130297,"date":"2026-08-04T18:15:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T18:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1130297\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T18:15:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T18:15:20","slug":"world-champions-spain-to-host-england-at-metropolitano-in-decisive-uefa-nations-league-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1130297\/","title":{"rendered":"World champions Spain to host England at Metropolitano in decisive UEFA Nations League clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"v-d-p\" style=\"\">Reigning world champions Spain will face England at Madrid&#8217;s Riyadh Air Metropolitano on Sunday 15 November in the final round of the men&#8217;s UEFA Nations League league phase.<\/p>\n<p class=\"v-d-p\" style=\"\">The 2026 FIFA World Cup winners will take on Thomas Tuchel&#8217;s side, semi-finalists in the United States, with the match likely to play a key role in deciding qualification for the finals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"v-d-p\" style=\"\">The first Nations League meeting between the teams this upcoming campaign will take place in London on Saturday 26 September in a repeat of the Euro 2024 final, when Spain claimed a 2-1 victory in Berlin to lift their fourth European title. <\/p>\n<p class=\"v-d-p\" style=\"\">The Metropolitano, which holds more than 70,000 spectators, has hosted three previous Spain men&#8217;s internationals since opening. Spain remain unbeaten at the stadium, recording two wins and one draw.<\/p>\n<p class=\"v-d-p\" style=\"\">The venue also staged <a href=\"https:\/\/www.surinenglish.com\/sport\/spain-retain-nations-league-crown-20251205223716-nt.html\" target=\"_self\" data-voc-vtm-id=\"in-text-traffic\" data-mrf-link=\"www.surinenglish.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Spain women&#8217;s second Nations League triumph in 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reigning world champions Spain will face England at Madrid&#8217;s Riyadh Air Metropolitano on Sunday 15 November in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1130298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5312],"tags":[55361,60055,307563,393,2000,299,3572,6695,307562,9197,104,6536,26],"class_list":["post-1130297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-champions","tag-clash","tag-decisive","tag-england","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-host","tag-league","tag-metropolitano","tag-nations","tag-spain","tag-uefa","tag-world"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1130297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1130298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1130297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1130297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1130297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}