Spain v Slovakia background

Spain will join Slovakia on 18 points at the top of UEFA EURO 2016 Group C if they can avenge a 2-1 defeat to the surprise section leaders.

Previous meetings
• Substitute Miroslav Stoch's 87th-minute winner when these sides last met put an end to Spain's 36-game unbeaten run in qualifiers, which stretched back to October 2006.

• Prior to that 2-1 success, Slovakia had not won in four meetings with Spain: three defeats followed by a 1-1 draw in the return leg of a FIFA World Cup play-off in November 2005.

Disciplinary
• Spain forward Diego Costa and playmaker David Silva are both a booking away from a suspension.

• Slovakia's Martin Škrtel and Juraj Kucka are absent through suspension. Norbert Gyömber is a booking away from a one-game ban.

Form guide
• Spain have won five of their six Group C games. That loss to Slovakia remains their only defeat in their last 41 qualifying games (W37 D3 L1).

• Spain are unbeaten in 30 home qualifiers (W26 D4), winning the last 15 in the UEFA European Championship since a 1-0 loss to Greece on 7 June 2003.

• England and Slovakia are the only sides who won their opening six games in UEFA EURO 2016 qualifying.

• Slovakia have won all three of their Group C away games; when they reached the finals of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, they won four away games in qualifying.

Trivia and links
• Spain have made the most passes after six rounds of games (4,185) and have a pass completion rate of 92%.

• Slovakia were fouled 102 times in their first six qualifiers – more than any other team.

• Slovakia's Marek Hamšík plays alongside Spain internationals José Callejón and Raúl Albiol at SSC Napoli.

• The nations' eight meetings in UEFA age-group competitions have ended in six Spanish wins and two draws.

• Slovakian sides' record in 17 UEFA matches against Spanish clubs is W3 D4 L10; the most famous of those fixtures is the first, ŠK Slovan Bratislava's 3-2 victory against FC Barcelona in the 1969 European Cup Winners' Cup final.