Spain’s La Furia Roja meet Tunisia’s Carthage Eagles in their World Cup Group encounter at the Gottleib-Daimler Stadion in Stüttgart on Monday.

Spain coach Luis Aragones is hoping to extend Spain's unbeaten-run to 23 games after they hammered Ukraine 4-0 in the group opener and starts with the same team that won that match so decisively.

Arsenal FC midfielders Cesc Fabregas and Jose Antonio Reyes start on the Spanish bench, along with their regular captain Raul, who is still recovering from injury.

Toulouse striker Francileudo dos Santos is on the bench for the Carthage Eagles after also failing to recover fully from a leg injury.

Tunisia will need to improve on their performance against Saudi Arabia in their first match when they needed an injury-time goal from Rahdi Jaidi to secure a draw.

Spain, buoyed by their impressive win over Ukraine last Wednesday, are hoping to reach new heights in Germany this summer and have started in style and are now brimming with confidence.

“Historically we have done nothing at the World Cup,” said Spain head coach Luis Aragones.

“This time we hope to do something, but we've got a very difficult game against Tunisia. They are a better footballing side than Ukraine and we've got a lot of respect for them.”

Bolton’s Radhi Jaidi, who scored the injury-time equaliser for Tunisia against Saudi Arabia said: We can't do as badly.... as in the last game. We must concentrate and keep cool. Sure we will be motivated.”

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