Match Report
23 points separated the sides: Spain 1st on 26, Malta 5th on 3. Malta's recent output lagged their position: 50th on form over five rounds while 5th in the table. Per game in the league, Spain were scoring 3.1 and conceding 0.5, Malta 0.3 and 2.7, against a competition average of 1.6 goals per team per game.
Malta had lost four in a row. From the last five rounds, Spain held 10 points of 15 and Malta 1.
The match was played at Estadio Nuevo Mirandilla in Cádiz (capacity 2,000). Half-time and full-time told different stories: Spain led 2-0 at the break, before 5 more goals closed it at 7-0.