Spain boss Julen Lopetegui has announced his squad for their 2018 FIFA World Cup,\u00a0with Chelsea’s Alvaro Morata being the key omission. Spanish national team manager Julen Lopetegui unveiled his 23 man squad as \u201cLa Roja\u201d look to emulate the heroics of 2010 South Africa World Cup-winning squad.<\/p>\n
Morata has been a consistent selection under Lopetegui and was La Roja\u2019s joint-top scorer in qualifying with five goals. However, he has scored just one league goal in 2018 and has been dethroned by Diego Costa – who also netted five times in qualifying – Rodrigo, the Valencia attacker has scored 16 goals in 31 league games for Valencia and Iago Aspas of Celta Vigo based on their current form as Morata had a forgettable second half of the season with Chelsea.<\/p>\n
La Roja’s squad has moved on from Cesc F\u00e1bregas,\u00a0Juan Mata,\u00a0Pedro and many others and\u00a0has also decided to go without the likes of \u00c1lvaro Morata,\u00a0Marcos Alonso and Javi Mart\u00ednez. Marcos Alonso could count himself unlucky to miss out despite\u00a0scoring seven goals and earned two assists in 33 league games for Chelsea.<\/p>\n
United midfielder Herrera is considerably less of a surprise, having only received two caps for his country and last playing in a friendly against France over a year ago and did not flourish to his full potential as Manchester United finished another season trophyless. Other key players snubbed from the La Roja squad based on the recent form are\u00a0Arsenal defender Hector Bellerin, Chelsea pair Pedro and Cesc Fabregas, and Bayern Munich midfielder Javi Martinez.<\/p>\n
Spain is grouped with Portugal, Morocco and Iran in Group B. Spain play warm-up matches against Switzerland on June 4 and Tunisia on June 9, ahead of the World Cup.<\/p>\n
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The full Spain squad can be seen, below:<\/p>\n
Goalkeepers:<\/strong> David de Gea (Manchester United), Kepa Arrizabalaga (Athletic Bilbao), Pepe Reina (SSC Napoli).<\/p>\n Defenders:<\/strong> Dani Carvajal (Real Madrid), \u00c1lvaro Odriozola (Real Sociedad), Gerard Piqu\u00e9 (Barcelona), Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid), Nacho (Real Madrid), C\u00e9sar Azpilicueta (Chelsea), Jordi Alba (Barcelona), Nacho Monreal (Arsenal).<\/p>\n Midfielders:<\/strong> Sergio Busquets (Barcelona), Sa\u00fal \u00d1\u00edguez (Atl\u00e9tico Madrid), Andr\u00e9s Iniesta (Barcelona), Thiago Alc\u00e1ntara (Bayern M\u00fcnchen), Koke (Atl\u00e9tico Madrid), Isco (Real Madrid).<\/p>\n Forwards:<\/strong> David Silva (Manchester City), Marco Asensio (Real Madrid), Lucas V\u00e1zquez (Real Madrid), Diego Costa (Atl\u00e9tico Madrid), Rodrigo (Valencia), Iago Aspas (Celta Vigo). <\/p>\n<\/div>\n Spanish players NOT selected for the World Cup squad<\/strong>..<\/p>\n \u274c Cesc Fabregas Spain boss Julen Lopetegui has announced his squad for their 2018 FIFA World Cup,\u00a0with Chelsea’s Alvaro Morata being the key omission. Spanish national team manager Julen Lopetegui unveiled his 23 man squad as \u201cLa Roja\u201d look to emulate the heroics of 2010 South Africa World Cup-winning squad. Morata has been a consistent selection under Lopetegui and was La Roja\u2019s joint-top scorer in qualifying with five goals. However, he has scored just one league goal in 2018 and has been dethroned by Diego Costa – who also netted five times in qualifying – Rodrigo, the Valencia attacker has scored 16 goals in 31 league games for Valencia and Iago Aspas of … Continue reading “\u201cLa Roja\u201d squad unveiled by Julen Lopetegui for World Cup 2018”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":658,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[259,268,263,258,255,272,275,260,277,271,264,278,256,270,279,274,273,262,265,257,276,267,266,261,269],"class_list":["post-657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alvaro-odriozola-real-sociedad","tag-andres-iniesta-barcelona","tag-cesar-azpilicueta-chelsea","tag-dani-carvajal-real-madrid","tag-david-de-gea-manchester-united","tag-david-silva-manchester-city","tag-diego-costa-atletico-madrid","tag-gerard-pique-barcelona","tag-iago-aspas-celta-vigo","tag-isco-real-madrid","tag-jordi-alba-barcelona","tag-julen-lopetegui","tag-kepa-arrizabalaga-athletic-bilbao","tag-koke-atletico-madrid","tag-la-roja","tag-lucas-vazquez-real-madrid","tag-marco-asensio-real-madrid","tag-nacho-real-madrid","tag-nacho-monreal-arsenal","tag-pepe-reina-ssc-napoli","tag-rodrigo-valencia","tag-saul-niguez-atletico-madrid","tag-sergio-busquets-barcelona","tag-sergio-ramos-real-madrid","tag-thiago-alcantara-bayern-munchen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u274c \u00c1lvaro Morata
\n\u274c Pedro
\n\u274c Hector Bellerin
\n\u274c Marcos Alonso
\n\u274c Ander Herrera
\n\u274c Juan Mata
\n\u274c Javi Martinez
\n\u274c Sergi Roberto
\n\u274c Marc Bartra<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"