Spain vs Turkey preview, prediction, team news and head-to-head

Spain have been impeccable in this World Cup qualifying series and barring a shocking collapse, they can treat this as a warm-up fixture.

Turkey is unlikely to offer much resistance, and anything other than a heavy defeat here should be viewed as a positive outcome.

Spain have recorded five wins from five games already in WCQ, and it is hard to believe they haven't rubber-stamped their ticket to next year's showpiece event in North America.

After downing Georgia 4-0 on the road on Saturday, Spain now have the chance to go through a full WCQ cycle without conceding a single goal for the first time in history. They need to lose by seven clear goals here, not to take top spot, and that is extremely unlikely.

Turkey have done pretty much everything they could have done to keep up with Spain, winning every Group E game aside from their defeat against Spain in the reverse.

That 6-0 defeat they suffered in that game is what has realistically consigned them to the play-off spot, and their chances of finishing as group winners are very unlikely.

Spain have been utterly dominant in this fixture.

Both sides have met four times, with Spain winning every single clash, including keeping a clean sheet in 3 of the 4 meetings.

Lamine Yamal is Spain’s big-name absentee, but Real Madrid’s Dean Huijsen also missed Saturday’s game with a groin issue.

Turkey’s Kaan Ayhan was withdrawn with an issue against Bulgaria on Saturday and could miss out here.

Spain: Simon; Porro, Le Normand, Cubarsi, Cucurella; Merino, Zubimendi, Ruiz; Oyarzabal, Torres, Baena.

Turkey: Cakir; Muldur, Demiral, Bardakci, Elmali; Yuksek, Kokcu; Akgun, Guler, Yildiz; Yilmaz

Spain are favourites here, and even if Luis De la Fuente chooses to rest players, we should still see a few goals. Prediction: Spain 3-0 Turkey

• Spain over 2.5 goals

• Over 6.5 corners