Morata goal Spain edges Sweden 1-0 to qualify for 2022 World Cup

Morata goal Spain edges Sweden 1-0 to qualify for 2022 World Cup, Zlatan Sweden facing the playoffs.

Substitute Álvaro Morata scored late as “La Roja” beat Sweden 1-0 Sunday to win Group B and earn the automatic spot for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, leaving Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s team facing the playoffs.

 The 40-year-old Ibrahimovic came off the bench in the 74th minute but couldn’t spark the visitors to victory, which was the only result for Sweden to avoid the playoffs next year. 

Morata scored the winner in the tense match in Seville from inside the area in the 86th after a long-range shot by Dani Olmo struck the post.

 Spain finished with 19 points, four more than Sweden.

Spaniard Morata, Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s in Tears, Spain edges Sweden 1-0, Best stats.

  1 --  Spain beat Sweden, it means Spaniard have qualified for a 12th consecutive FIFA World Cup finals.

2  --   The Swedes made it to the quarterfinals of the 2018 World Cup but didn’t qualify for the tournament in 2014 and 2010.

3  --   Spain has qualified for every World Cup since 1978, winning its lone global title in 2010 in South Africa. It was eliminated by host Russia in the last 16 of the 2018 World Cup.

4  --   Spain have never lost a World Cup qualifying match at home.

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