Georgia 1-2 Spain: 5 Talking points as Dani Olmo nets last-gasp winner for La Roja | 2022 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers

#3 Georgia struggle to keep possession against Spain

Georgia vs Spain - FIFA World Cup 2022 Qatar Qualifier

Georgia were pushed onto the backfoot by Spain with their possession-based game. The hosts rarely had the ball with them for any significant swathes.

While they did well to block and intercept most of Spain's forays into their box, Georgia failed to hold the ball. Either they were dispossessed in midfield, or they squandered possession with poor passes.

2 - The Spanish National Team have won two of their three games against Georgia, both in the 2014 World Cup Qualifiers. Their only defeat against them was in a friendly match, in June 2016. Remember. pic.twitter.com/lx3ITXHOUP

— OptaJose (@OptaJose) March 28, 2021

The hosts only had a 67% pass completion rate. That with their 21% possession meant that Georgia weren't in the game against Spain for significant periods, which eventually proved to be their undoing.

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#2 Spain's profligacy in front of goal is disconcerting

Georgia vs Spain - FIFA World Cup 2022 Qatar Qualifier

Despite boosting 79% possession and recording nine shots on target, Spain needed a late winner to take home all three points.

That was because despite the chances they created, Spain failed to finish them off, which meant the visitors were close to going winless in their first two games of the ongoing 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifiers.

Spain were two minutes away from going winless in their first two World Cup qualifiers.That 93rd minute game-winner feeling 😤 pic.twitter.com/tjtryLh8eJ

— B/R Football (@brfootball) March 28, 2021

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#1 Spain are now unbeaten in 65 FIFA World Cup qualifiers

Georgia vs Spain - FIFA World Cup 2022 Qatar Qualifier

Ferran Torres' equaliser and a late Dani Olmo strike meant Spain have no lost a FIFA World Cup qualifying game in almost two decades.

They last lost a World Cup qualifier 18 years, on 31 March 1993, when Denmark won 1-0. Since then, Spain have played 65 FIFA World Cup qualifiers without tasting defeat.

🇪🇸 Spain become the first team in history to score in 37 consecutive #WorldCup qualifiers, breaking the record West Germany set between 1934 and '85, and the first side to go unbeaten in 65 straight #WCQ matches. Unbelievable! 🤯 pic.twitter.com/IOlFdM9pWF

— FIFA World Cup (@FIFAWorldCup) March 28, 2021

Spain are now second in Group B as they look set to seal their berth at the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar by topping their group.