Both teams have a strong midfield three. While Spain is starting with the trio of Ruiz, Zubimendi and Pedri, Portugal will have the combination of Silva, Vitinha and Bruno Fernandes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
There are plenty of match-winners on the pitch to suggest that it will not just be about Ronaldo vs Yamal, which has been the main narrative ahead of the final.\u00a0<\/p>\n
With Nico Williams and Lamine Yamal starting on the left and right flanks, respectively, the Portugal backline will need to be careful of their pace. We might get to see a lot of clever runs behind the defence, and of course, the counter-attacking threat always remains.\u00a0<\/p>\n
For the Spanish backline, they would know better than to count Cristiano Ronaldo. The star might be 40 but he thrives on big occasions.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Both teams have a strong midfield three. While Spain is starting with the trio of Ruiz, Zubimendi and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[70328,70329,2000,299,70333,70332,70319,70320,70330,70331,70313,70315,70316,70321,70323,104,70325,70314,70317,70324,70318,70327,70326,70322],"class_list":{"0":"post-168275","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-esp-v-por-live-score","9":"tag-esp-v-por-live-updates","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-football-live-score","13":"tag-football-live-updates","14":"tag-nations-league-final-live-score","15":"tag-nations-league-final-live-updates","16":"tag-por-v-esp-live-score","17":"tag-por-v-esp-live-updates","18":"tag-portugal-vs-spain","19":"tag-portugal-vs-spain-live-score","20":"tag-portugal-vs-spain-live-updates","21":"tag-ronaldo-live-updates","22":"tag-ronaldo-match-today","23":"tag-spain","24":"tag-spain-portugal-tv-channel-india","25":"tag-spain-vs-portugal","26":"tag-spain-vs-portugal-live-core","27":"tag-spain-vs-portugal-live-streaming-india","28":"tag-spain-vs-portugal-live-updates","29":"tag-where-to-live-streamin-portugal-spain-india","30":"tag-where-to-watch-portugal-spain-india","31":"tag-yamal-live-updates"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168275","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=168275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}