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In the past two years, the Spanish national team has been practically unbeaten away, consistently scoring at least two goals even at the homes of strong opponents. In contrast, Bulgaria has struggled to score goals in their recent competitive matches, while their defense regularly allowed 2-3 goals.

• Spain won six of their last nine away competitive matches, drew three, and did not lose any.
• The Spanish team scored an average of over 2.0 goals in these matches and only once did they score less than 1 goal.
• In Bulgaria’s last five competitive matches, they scored no more than one goal four times and failed to score three times.

The main risk lies in the fact that in the opening round of the qualifiers, favorites sometimes play more conservatively and a single Bulgarian counter-attack could slip a goal in, but statistics suggest this chance is minimal.