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Two sides with one hundred per cent records go head-to-head in qualification for the 2014
World Cup on Tuesday night, when Spain take on France in Group I at the Estadio Vicente
Calderon in Madrid.
As current World and European champions, Spain will go into the match as hot favourites,
not least because they have won their last three matches against the French, the most
recent a 2-0 victory at the quarter-final stage of Euro 2012 in Ukraine.
Spain are also enjoying a remarkable winning run in major championship qualifiers - another
success against the French would be their 25th in a row.
They last failed to take three points in a qualifier in September 2007 when they drew
1-1 with Iceland and nearly a decade has passed since they last lost a qualifier on home soil
- that was a 1-0 defeat by Greece in Zaragoza back in June 2003.
However France will be buoyed by Spain's absentees - coach Vicente del Bosque is likely to field
a makeshift defence in the absence of injured Barcelona duo Gerard Pique and Carlos Puyol.