Spain v Germany LIVE: Euro 2024 team news, line-ups and latest updates from quarter-final

Spain boss Luis de la Fuente admitted that limiting the influence of Germany midfielder Toni Kroos will be vital for his side to succeed.

“We thought about tying Kroos’ feet together, but I’m not sure if Uefa will let me,” the 63-year-old joked, “We know how Kroos behaves.

“We will try to make sure he doesn’t have the chance to receive the ball and will limit his passing options.”

Spain’s Fabian Ruiz has been involved in five goals in his last four games in all competitions (three goals, two assists).

He has both scored and assisted in two of his three games at Euro 2024 so far – no player has ever done so in three different games at a single edition of the European Championship.

Germany have scored 10 goals across their four matches at Euro 2024, which is already their joint-most in a single edition of the European Championship.

The Germany coach said: “It’s not a final, it’s a quarter-final. We want to be one of the teams in the semi-final.

“Spain want to be champions as well, so it’ll be a tough game. Both teams are good in possession, have good counter-pressing qualities and can put their opponents under pressure.”

It is something that Julian Nagelsmann doesn’t even want to be mentioned around the German camp, but it’s now impossible not to consider.

A 1-0 defeat would have put Germany second in their group and on the more forgiving side of the draw, probably making them the biggest force there. It could have been a clear route to the semi-final.

No host nation has ever been eliminated from the quarter-final stage of a European Championship, with all four previous host quarter-finalists (England in 1996, Netherlands in 2000, Portugal in 2004 and France in 2016) progressing.

This will be the fourth meeting between Spain and Germany at a European Championship, with Spain winning two (1984 and 2008) to Germany’s one (1988).

Their last such meeting was in the 2008 finalwith Spain winning 1-0 thanks to goal from Fernando Torres.

The Spain coach said: “It’s going to be an equal game. It could have been the Euros final and I think it’ll be an even game on a footballing level.

“Germany always start matches strongly, so obviously we’ll try and counter that. We’ll try and take the initiative and go all-out from the first minute.”

Spain boss Luis de la Fuente keeps the same starting XI that lined up against Georgia in the last-16. Lamine Yamal keeps his place in the forward line with Alvaro Morata up top. Rodri anchors the midfield and Aymeric Laporte continues his centre-back partnership with Robin Le Normand.

For Germany there are two changes to the team that faced Denmark in the previous round. Jonathan Tah and Emre Can are brought into the team to replace Nico Schlotterbeck and Robert Andrich who both drop to the bench.

16-year-old winger Lamie Yamal has provided two assists for Spain so far becoming just the third teenager on record (since 1980) to provide multiple assists in the European Championship after Enzo Scifo (1984) and Cristiano Ronaldo (2004).