After a challenging season at Chelsea the previous year, the 25-year-old left-back has been crucial for Spain this summer, starting all but one of his country’s matches to reach Sunday’s spectacular.

Following his impressive performance in Spain’s semi-final match against France on Tuesday—La Roja’s sixth straight victory in the competition—Cucurella is most likely to stay in Luis de la Fuente’s starting lineup.

Spain, who have been by far the most convincing team in Germany, are the favorites to win the title as they go into their first major final in twelve years.Palmer, Cucurella’s club teammate, may face him in Berlin; however, Southgate has only used the attacker, Chelsea’s Player of the Season, in substitute roles thus far.

However, Palmer made a significant contribution off the bench in the Three Lions’ semi-final triumph over the Netherlands, setting up Ollie Watkins’ incredible 90th-minute winner in Dortmund.

Although it was more than a week ago, we did speak. In the earlier rounds, Cucurella spoke with the Spanish newspaper Mundo Deportivo for a considerable amount of time.

“I think it’s much better if he sits on the bench and doesn’t play.”Cucurella said, “Today we had our first talk and we discussed it a bit,” in response to the question of whether De la Fuente had asked him for any inside knowledge on the players for England.

But Rodri, who is more knowledgeable about English football than I am, is with him.

I guess we could present him with alternative viewpoints if he is still unsure.

“We’re going to approach the game the same way we’ve approached the previous nine matches.” We stand a decent chance of winning if we perform to the best of our abilities.While Cucurella has excelled at the Euros and disproved many of his doubters, many viewers were perplexed when they saw the full-back the target of jeers and yells during Spain’s semi-final victory against France in Munich.

It was later revealed that the offenders were neutral German supporters expressing their ire because Cucurella was spared penalty for a handball shout during last week’s quarterfinal, rather than irate French fans.

In response to the question of whether the jeering had startled him, Cucurella said, “At first, yes, a little, because I didn’t really understand it.”

However, I soon noticed that a large number of people were dressed in white, and I knew why.

Instead than paying money to be in the European Championship semi-finals and then jeering, they could have donated the ticket to someone who would have enjoyed the game.