Spain vs Georgia Matchday Stats Preview

Spain have won six of their seven matches against Georgia in all competitions, all of which have been since 2012. They met in qualifying for EURO 2024, with Spain winning both games by an aggregate score of 10-2 (7-1 away, 3-1 home) – indeed, their 7-1 win away at Georgia remains the only time ever Georgia have conceded seven goals in an international fixture.

Georgia’s one win in seven meetings against Spain came in a June 2016 friendly at the Estadio Coliseum in Getafe, with Tornike Okriashvili scoring the winner in a 1-0 victory for the Georgians.

Spain have been eliminated in the round of 16 in three of their previous major tournament appearances (World Cup/EUROs), losing on penalties at the World Cup in both 2022 (v Morocco) and 2018 (v Russia), and at EURO 2016 versus Italy (0-2 defeat).

Georgia are into the knockout stages in what is their first ever international tournament. Since the quarter-final phase was introduced at EURO 1996, only three nations have ever reached that stage in their first UEFA EURO – Croatia in 1996 and both Wales and Iceland at EURO 2016.

Spain have kept a clean sheet in all three of their games at UEFA EURO 2024 so far, while the last time they kept four consecutive clean sheets at the same major tournament (World Cup/EUROs) was in 2012 (a run of five) – the last time they won this competition.

In the EURO 2024 group stage, Georgia faced the most shots (71), most on target (25) and had the highest xG conceded (8.1) of any nation. Indeed, the only nation to face more than 71 shots in the group stage is Latvia at EURO 2004 (86), while the previous most shots faced while qualifying for the knockouts was 68 by Türkiye at EURO 2000.

If Pedri is named in Spain’s starting XI here, he’ll become the player with the most starts in the knockout stages at the UEFA European Championship while aged 21 or under (currently on three). All three of his previous starts in the knockout stages of the competition have gone to extra time (120 minutes played v Croatia, 119 v Switzerland, and 120 v Italy – all at EURO 2020).

Nico Williams and Lamine Yamal have both created 5+ chances and completed 5+ dribbles at EURO 2024; the first time multiple players had done so for Spain in a group stage at a major tournament (World Cup/EUROs) since Andrés Iniesta and David Silva at EURO 2016.

Georges Mikautadze has scored (3) or assisted (1) all four of Georgia’s goals at EURO 2024. He became only the fourth player to score in each of his country’s first ever three matches in EURO history after Gareth Bale for Wales (2016), Hristo Stoichkov for Bulgaria (1996) and Viktor Ponedelnik for USSR (1960 & 1964).

Georgia goalkeeper Giorgi Mamardashvili has saved 16 of the last 17 shots on target he’s faced at EURO 2024. He made a grand total of 21 saves over his last three matches, the joint-most of any goalkeeper in a EURO group stage alongside Latvia’s Alexanders Kolinko in 2004.