Spanish maestros should be back to face France

Xavi and Alonso are coming back after niggling injuries and missed Friday's surprise 1-1 draw at home to Finland, while Busquets was deployed as a makeshift centre-back when Spain were held 1-1 by France in Madrid in October.

"Both [Xavi and Alonso] are fine but as I have said we are not going to risk anyone and it will be the players who take the final decision," Del Bosque told a news conference at Spain's team hotel in the French capital.

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