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Luis Enrique<\/strong><\/p>\n SPAIN MANAGER Luis Enrique has said he considers Argentina and Brazil the favourites for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.<\/p>\n Argentina lifted last year\u2019s Copa America title with a 1-0 win in the final over Brazil at the Maracana, their first major title since 1993. The Lionel Messi-led side built on that success earlier this month by claiming a 3-0 victory over Italy in Finalissima.<\/p>\n The two South American sides went unbeaten in World Cup qualifying, although Brazil finished six points ahead of Argentina in the qualifying table.<\/p>\n \u201cI see Argentina and Brazil well above all the other national teams,\u201d Luis Enrique told a news conference on Saturday. \u201cWell above the rest.\u201d<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Enrique\u2019s Spain side have been unconvincing in this month\u2019s international break. The 2010 World Cup winners head into Sunday\u2019s Nations League game against the Czech Republic looking for only their second win in the tournament in a 1-0 victory at Switzerland on Thursday.<\/p>\n Spain drew their opening Group A2 games, a 1-1 result against Portugal followed by a 2-2 draw at the Czech Republic.<\/p>\n \u201cIf some expect us to win all of the games and do so by thrashing our opponents, they know nothing of modern football,\u201d Enrique said.<\/p>\n France are bottom of Group A1 after taking two points from their opening three Nations League games.<\/p>\n Spain have struggled in front of goal leading to calls for Enrique to field Barcelona forward Ansu Fati against the Czech Republic.<\/p>\n Ansu, 19, has not played for Spain since October 2020 due to injuries and hamstring problems, and he made just 14 appearances for Barcelona last season.<\/p>\n \u201cI have no doubt that he will return to his level,\u201d Enrique said. \u201cHe is a unique player in terms of his rapport with goal. We were the first to call him up because we were aware of that. We can\u2019t be in a hurry. He\u2019s had a very difficult year and we must mark the necessary steps that I believe are the best for him. We are not going to take any risks.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 Luis Enrique SPAIN MANAGER Luis Enrique has said he considers Argentina and Brazil the favourites for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. Argentina lifted last year\u2019s Copa America title with a 1-0 win in the final over Brazil at the Maracana, their first major title since 1993. The Lionel Messi-led side built on that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1120115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[5312,566,5625,804,2457,9923,805],"class_list":["post-1120109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-argentina","tag-boss","tag-brazil","tag-glory","tag-qatar","tag-spain","tag-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1120109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1120109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1120109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1120109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}