Arsenal legend says Germany will beat Spain

Former Germany and Arsenal goalkeeper Jens Lehmann has claimed that Spain are ‘too small and inexperienced’ to win Euro 2024.

La Roja have cemented themselves as tournament favourites having become the only team to win all of their games.

In comparison, England and France have both struggled to click, while hosts Germany and Portugal have also suffered mixed form.

Spain are heavily tipped to overcome Germany in the quarter-finals, however, Lehmann has reservations over their lack of physicality.

He told Welt: “Because it is usually the case in a tournament that a team who are as highly praised as the Spanish and has undoubtedly shown why, their good results suddenly change.

“This has happened to the Spanish before and from a technical point of view, I would say that in terms of quality they are perhaps even better than us.

“But they are too small in size and they are very inexperienced, they are basically a youth team.

“They already have two wingers who are extremely young and have little international experience in the axis starting from the goalkeeper through the central defence to the forwards to Morata.”

Lehmann added: “I’ve mentioned a few technical arguments as to why we can win, you just say that Rodri is 28, when you have teammates who are 16 and 21 years old then, for me, it’s a bit youthful.

“At some point the team will perform above average, but teams that are too small in terms of height are usually punished.”