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Spain 2-0 Yugoslavia - December 14, 1996 / World Cup Qualifying - Europe Zone 1998

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World Cup Qualifying - Europe Zone 1998 - Group 6

Mestalla - Valencia - Spain

December 14, 1996

Spain

2 - 0

Yugoslavia

Serbia and Montenegro

(penalty) Josep Guardiola

18'

Raúl

37'

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18' - Goal Josep Guardiola18

37' - Goal Raúl37

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61' - Substitution Alfonsois substituted by Guillermo Amor61

75' - Substitution Kikois substituted by Javier Manjarín75

75' - Substitution Hristo Vidakovicis substituted by Milinko Pantic

79' - Substitution Milinko Panticis substituted by Albert Nadj

86' - Red card Nisa Saveljic

88' - Substitution Raúlis substituted by Julen Guerrero88

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Spain

2 - 0

Yugoslavia

Spain Yugoslavia

Team line-ups

Spain

Zubizarreta

Andoni Zubizarreta

Spain

B.date23/10/1961

Age35 years

H1m87

positionGoalkeeper

Alkorta

Rafael Alkorta

Spain

B.date16/09/1968

Age28 years

H1m77

positionCentral defender

Ríos

Roberto Ríos

Spain

B.date08/10/1971

Age25 years

H1m94

positionCentral defender

Nadal

Miguel Ángel Nadal

Spain

B.date28/07/1966

Age30 years

H1m87

positionCentral defender

Abelardo

Spain

B.date19/04/1970

Age26 years

H1m80

positionCentral defender

Sergi

Spain

B.date28/12/1971

Age24 years

H1m72

positionLeft full-back

Luis Enrique

Spain

B.date08/05/1970

Age26 years

H1m79

positionRight full-back

Guardiola18

Josep Guardiola

Spain

B.date18/01/1971

Age25 years

H1m80

positionDefensive Midfielder

Kiko75

Kiko

Spain

B.date26/04/1972

Age24 years

H1m88

positionCentre forward

Alfonso61

Alfonso

Spain

B.date26/09/1972

Age24 years

H1m72

positionStriker

Raúl3788

Raúl

Spain

B.date27/06/1977

Age19 years

H1m80

positionSecond striker

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Andoni Zubizarreta		35	114	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Rafael Alkorta		28	43	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Roberto Ríos		25	3	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Miguel Ángel Nadal		30	36	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Abelardo		26	32	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Sergi		24	26	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Luis Enrique		26	28	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Josep Guardiola	18	25	18	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Kiko	75	24	14	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Alfonso	61	24	18	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Raúl	3788	19	3	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

26 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Yugoslavia

Kocic

Aleksandar Kocic

Serbia

B.date18/03/1969

Age27 years

H1m91

positionGoalkeeper

Vidakovic75

Hristo Vidakovic

Serbia

B.date05/01/1969

Age27 years

H1m83

positionCentral defender

Saveljic86

Nisa Saveljic

Serbia

B.date27/03/1970

Age26 years

H1m88

positionCentral defender

Djukic

Miroslav Djukic

Serbia

B.date19/02/1966

Age30 years

H1m87

positionCentral defender

Djorovic

Goran Djorovic

Serbia

B.date11/11/1971

Age25 years

H1m83

positionCentral defender

Jokanovic

Slavisa Jokanovic

Serbia

B.date16/08/1968

Age28 years

H1m91

positionDefensive Midfielder

Brnovic

Branko Brnovic

Montenegro

B.date08/08/1967

Age29 years

H1m83

positionDefensive Midfielder

Jugovic

Vladimir Jugovic

Serbia

B.date30/08/1969

Age27 years

H1m79

positionLeft Midfielder

Savicevic

Dejan Savicevic

Montenegro

B.date15/09/1966

Age30 years

H1m82

positionVersatile Offensive Midfielder

Stojkovic

Dragan Stojkovic

Serbia

B.date03/03/1965

Age31 years

H1m74

positionOffensive Midfielder

Mijatovic

Predrag Mijatovic

Montenegro

B.date19/01/1969

Age27 years

H1m77

positionForward

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Aleksandar Kocic		27	11	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Hristo Vidakovic	75	27	3	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Nisa Saveljic	86	26	8	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Miroslav Djukic		30	8	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Goran Djorovic		25	15	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Slavisa Jokanovic		28	10	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Branko Brnovic		29	8	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Vladimir Jugovic		27	9	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Dejan Savicevic		30	11	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Dragan Stojkovic		31	12	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Predrag Mijatovic		27	9	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

27.9 years

Average number of matches played for the team

			Age	Match num	Note
M	Guillermo Amor	61	29	24	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Julen Guerrero	88	22	28	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Javier Manjarín	75	26	10	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	M		Albert Nadj	79	22	13	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
	M		Milinko Pantic	7579	30	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Roberto Ríos

Fernando Hierro

OUT

Josep Guardiola

Guillermo Amor

OUT

Kiko

Juan Antonio Pizzi

OUT

Abelardo

Julen Guerrero

OUT

Alfonso

Alberto Belsué

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Nisa Saveljic

Savo Milosevic

OUT

Dejan Savicevic

Sinisa Mihajlovic

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Javier Clemente

Success rate in this team:

58 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

47 %

Clemente vs Yugoslavia

1 victory

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on December 14, 1996

Clemente vs Santrac

1 victory

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on December 14, 1996

Manager

Age

Match num

Slobodan Santrac

Success rate in this team:

67 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

63 %

Santrac vs Spain

0 victory

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on December 14, 1996

Santrac vs Clemente

0 victory

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on December 14, 1996

Referee

Serge Muhmenthaler

2 victories	0 draw	0 loss	Spain2 matches	General total	Yugoslavia1 match	0 victory	0 draw	1 loss
1 victory	0 draw	0 loss	Spain1 match	Season total	Yugoslavia1 match	0 victory	0 draw	1 loss
Latest figure on December 14, 1996					Latest figure on December 14, 1996

Videos

May 01, 2012

Comments

Key figures

End of streak for Yugoslavia after 4 consecutive matches without a loss in World Cup Qualifying - Europe Zone (since 24/04/1996). It's a record streak. The first of history

It's the first time Josep Guardiola scores a goal in his professional career with since the 27/06/1994 (with vs )

It's the first time Raúl scores 1 goal vs in his professional career

Read the next 17 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

VSpain 1-0 Armenia07/06/1995

VSpain 6-0 Cyprus06/09/1995

VSpain 2-1 Argentina20/09/1995

VSpain 3-0 North Macedonia15/11/1995

VSpain 1-0 Norway07/02/1996

VSpain 4-1 Slovakia13/11/1996

Overall

DFrance 1-1 Spain15/06/1996

VSpain 2-1 Romania18/06/1996

DEngland 0-0 Spain22/06/1996

VFaroe Islands 2-6 Spain04/09/1996

DCzech Republic 0-0 Spain09/10/1996

VSpain 4-1 Slovakia13/11/1996

Current form

Away

LArgentina 1-0 Yugoslavia27/12/1994

VGreece 0-2 Yugoslavia20/09/1995

VEl Salvador 1-4 Yugoslavia12/11/1995

VMexico 1-4 Yugoslavia15/11/1995

LJapan 1-0 Yugoslavia26/05/1996

VFaroe Islands 1-8 Yugoslavia06/10/1996

Overall

VYugoslavia 3-1 Faroe Islands24/04/1996

DMexico 0-0 Yugoslavia23/05/1996

LJapan 1-0 Yugoslavia26/05/1996

VYugoslavia 6-0 Malta02/06/1996

VFaroe Islands 1-8 Yugoslavia06/10/1996

VYugoslavia 1-0 Czech Republic10/11/1996

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	6	1
Unbeaten streak	10	23
Drawless streak	6	1
Scoring streak	10	1
Conceding streak	1	1

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Winning streak	1	3
Unbeaten streak	1	3
Drawless streak	7	4
Scoring streak	1	3
Conceding streak	4	0
Invincibility streak	0	1

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

3	Number of games (Competition total)	4
1	Number of games (Home / Away)	1
2	Victories (Competition total)	4
1	Victories (Home / Away)	1
1	Draws (Competition total)	0
0	Draws (Home / Away)	0
0	Losses (Competition total)	0
0	Losses (Home / Away)	0

Goals

10	Goals scored (Competition total)	18
4	Goals scored (Home / Away)	8
3	Goals conceded (Competition total)	2
1	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	1
3.33	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	4.5
4	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	8
1	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	0.5
1	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	1

Betting aid

2	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	3
1	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	1
1	Clean sheets (Competition total)	2
0	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	0
1	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	0
0	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	0
2	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	2
1	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	1
4-1 (1 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	8-1 (1 times)

Bookings

5	Yellow cards (Competition total)	6
0	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	1
0	Red cards (Competition total)	0
0	Red cards (Home / Away)	0

Key players

Alfonso	3 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	6 goals	Savo Milosevic
Fernando Hierro	1 goal	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	3 goals	Savo Milosevic
-		Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	1 penalty	Dejan Savicevic
-		Team's penalty best scorer (Home / Away)	1 penalty	Dragan Stojkovic
Fernando Hierro	2 goals during the last 3 matches	The fittest player	6 goals during the last 4 matches	Savo Milosevic