Wales are back in competitive action next week when they travel to Dublin, but first, they have a glamour friendly against a Spanish side that seems to have gotten their mojo back with their new manager, Luis Enrique. Can the Spaniards earn a second win on British soil in two months, or will Wales cause an unlikely upset? Spain would take on England in Seville next week in the reverse fixture of their Euro Nations League, so they could experiment with their line up. Wales, on the other hand, would be looking to build on their Euro Nations League start after winning 1 and losing 2-0 to Denmark in their last game. Ryan Giggs’ men face the Republic of Ireland in their next Euro League game so a positive result here would give them a confidence boost. Spain struggled in Russia, but Enrique seems to have what it takes to take them back to their glory days as they have started his reign brightly. They have won their two Euro Nations League games against England and Croatia, scoring 8 goals against opponents of this calibre, so they shouldn’t have a big problem seeing off this Welsh side. These two sides last met in the qualifiers for the 1986 World Cup, with each side claiming a 3-0 home win across those two encounters.

After failing to build on their romantic success story at the World Cup, Iceland faces France in this friendly game, and the question on everyone’s lips at the moment is whether they can survive the onslaught of the World champions and restore some pride in this game. France began their reign as World Champions with two games against Germany and Netherlands, and they collected 4 points from those matches to put themselves firmly on the driving seat in their Euro Nations League group. They would be playing Germany next week, so we expect to see a few changes in this game, but this French team is incredibly talented and we don’t think Iceland can get a draw from their third string side. Iceland also got their Nations League campaign underway last month, and they were handed two heavy defeats. They have failed to turn around their form after the World Cup, with their poor run dragging on for 12 months now. They were able to qualify for Russia in style, but the build-up to the World Cup brought losses to the likes of Norway, Peru and the Czech Republic. Nothing seemed to lift their poor form ahead of the big tournament, and now the surprise side of Euro 2016 is under a cloud as they return to France. France have won six and drawn one of their last seven meetings with Iceland, and they have never lost to them.

Serbia travels to their neighbours Montenegro in fine form as they look to show them that ranking above them on the FIFA rankings means they are a better team. After beating Costa Rica, Serbia looked like they would be reaching the knockout stages of the last World Cup, however, they were subsequently beaten by both Switzerland and Brazil and left after the group stages. They earned a 1-0 win over Lithuania before drawing 2-2 against Romania in their previous Euro Nations League game, and they would need to win this game if they want to stand any chance of topping this group as things look tight. Serbia is blessed with some of the best players that have either played or are currently playing in the Premier League and that should make this game easy for them as their opponents are really unknown quantity at the moment. Montenegro have been under the shadows of their visitors since the two countries split and that should continue in this game. Nevertheless, they have made a good start to this competition after beating Lithuania 2-0 in their first game. This games against Serbia will be tough but they should hope their home advantage will help. They will be without their main centre-back Stefan Savic as well as Nikola Vuvkevic, which will definitely suck some of the defensive grit out of the side and the replacements in these areas are quite weak so it will have to be a whole team effort if they want to get anything from this game.