{"id":6571,"date":"2012-05-25T14:36:15","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T14:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=6571"},"modified":"2012-05-25T14:36:15","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T14:36:15","slug":"spain-coach-to-experiment-in-their-friendly-match-against-serbia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=6571","title":{"rendered":"Spain coach to experiment in their friendly match against Serbia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Madrid:<\/strong> Spain coach Vicente del Bosque will carry out some  experiments with his side when Spain kick off their preparations for  the European 2012 Championships with a friendly game against Serbia  Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Spain take on the Serbs in the town of St. Gallen in Austria, where  Del Bosque has taken his squad to prepare for the Championships.\n<\/p>\n<p>The fact that he has not taken any players from Athletic Club Bilbao  or FC Barcelona, who play in the final of the Spanish Cup Friday night,  means that Del Bosque has provisionally called up players such as  Atletico Madrid&#8217;s Adrian Lopez and Betis midfielder Benat Etxabarria,  reported Xinhua.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Both have a chance of making their debuts for Spain Saturday, with  Adrian trying to show he can replace the injured David Villa and Benat  looking to prove he can be an able back up to Barca&#8217;s Xavi Hernandez.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile Atletico Madrid defender Juanfran Torres could start at  left back and a good performance from him would allow Del Bosque to  consider playing Sergio Ramos in central defence to replace Carles  Puyol, who looks almost certain to miss out with a knee injury.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea duo Fernando Torres and Juan Mata will probably not start the  game, joining the squad late after the final of the Champions League,  which they won with the English club just under a week ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is the only game Spain will play before Del Bosque names his  final list Sunday. That list will include several players who are  tonight taking part in the Cup final, so the Serbia game is virtually  the only chance some members of the current squad have to impress. <strong>(IANS)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Madrid:<\/strong> Spain coach Vicente del Bosque will carry out some  experiments with his side when Spain kick off their preparations for  the European 2012 Championships with a friendly game against Serbia  Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Spain take on the Serbs in the town of St. Gallen in Austria, where  Del Bosque has taken his squad to prepare for the Championships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-euro-cup"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Spain coach to experiment in their friendly match against Serbia - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=6571\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Spain coach to experiment in their friendly match against Serbia - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u00a0 Madrid: Spain coach Vicente del Bosque will carry out some experiments with his side when Spain kick off their preparations for the European 2012 Championships with a friendly game against Serbia Saturday. 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