EURO 2024: FABIAN RUIZ STRONGER WITH SPAIN THAN WITH PSG? THE RESPONSE FROM THE MIDFIELDER OF LA ROJA

Highly visible since the start of Euro 2024, Fabian Ruiz will be one of the players in the Euro 2024 semi-final between Spain and the French team, Tuesday evening in Munich (9 p.m.). If he is currently in good shape, the 28-year-old player assures that he is also at ease with his club, PSG.

Luis de La Fuente should still count on him. With the exception of the third group match, without stakes for Spain, against Albania (1-0), the coach of the Roja has always relied on Fabian Ruiz since the start of Euro 2024. The midfielder with 27 caps does not disappoint him. From the start, against Croatia (3-0), he distinguished himself with a sublime goal and an assist .

Same stats sheet in the round of 16 against Georgia (4-1). Enough to surprise some PSG supporters who were more used to seeing a player on alternating current. It must be said that in terms of statistics, Fabian Ruiz has already scored more at the Euro than in the whole of last season in 21 appearances in Ligue 1 (1 goal). And he almost equaled his total of assists (3).

Fabian Ruiz: “If some people prefer me in the national team…”

So, are there two Fabian Ruiz? One performing well with La Roja and another, less reliable, with Paris Saint-Germain? “I don’t read the criticism too much,” assures the person concerned, interviewed by Le Parisien on Monday, on the eve of the semi-final against the French team in Munich. “Afterwards, if some prefer me in the national team than in the club, I don’t have much to say to them. The main thing is to give everything for my teams. I find that the way of playing at PSG and in Spain is very similar with Spanish coaches (Luis Enrique at PSG, Luis de La Fuente with La Roja). They both love possession.”

Regarding Luis Enrique, who had not retained him for the 2022 World Cup when he was in charge of Spain, Fabian Ruiz is keen to deny the rumours of tensions. “Everything that has been said about it is false,” says the Spanish international who assures that he will stay in Paris this season.