Watch Spain vs Netherlands Live Streaming Free World Cup 2014 Soccer Online

2014 Fifa World Cup: Watch Spain vs Netherlands Live Streaming Free
Venue: Arena Fonte Nova, Salvador
Date: Friday 13 June
Kick-off: 3 p.m., ESPN

MATCH FACTS

Head-to-head

• This is the first time in World Cup history that the finalists from the previous tournament have met in their first game.
• Spain lead by five wins to four from their 10 previous meetings. The only draw was a friendly match in Barcelona in 1987 that finished 1-1.
• Their only previous World Cup encounter was in the 2010 final, which Spain won 1-0
• Spain have 16 returning players from their squad at the 2010 tournament – the Netherlands have seven.

Spain

• The defending world champions have only won their first game in three of the last 10 World Cups (D4, L3). Italy drew 1-1 with Paraguay in 2010.
• Spain lost their opening game of the 2010 World Cup to Switzerland, but went on to become the first team to win the tournament having lost their first game.
• That defeat to the Swiss is the only match that coach Vicente del Bosque has lost in 25 World Cup fixtures, including qualifiers (W22, D2).
• They won 1-0 in all four knockout matches at the 2010 World Cup. Only Italy (five games in 1990) and Switzerland (five in 2006 & 2010) have ever had a longer run of clean sheets in the competition.
• Goalkeeper Iker Casillas is three World Cup clean sheets short of matching the 10-game record shared by England’s Peter Shilton and France’s Fabien Barthez. Casillas has gone 433 consecutive minutes unbeaten – a clean sheet against the Dutch would see him surpass the record of 517 minutes set by Italy’s Walter Zenga in 1990.
• In 2010, Spain became the lowest-scoring winners of a World Cup finals, scoring just eight goals in seven matches.
• Manchester United duo David de Gea and Juan Mata are the only members of the Spain squad not to have played for a club that qualified for the Champions League this season.
• David Villa – Spain’s top scorer at World Cup finals with eight goals – has been directly involved in seven of Spain’s last nine goals in the tournament (six goals, one assist).

Netherlands

• The Netherlands have made it past the group stage in their last seven World Cup appearances, reaching the final three times.
• Robin van Persie was the top European scorer in the 2014 World Cup qualifiers with 11 goals.
• Wesley Sneijder is expected to become the sixth Dutchman to win 100 caps. Dirk Kuyt could win his 99th.
• The Netherlands have won 63% of their World Cup matches outside Europe, compared to just 42% on European soil.

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Starting Lineups