Team news Brazil: Santos, Diego Carlos, Guilherme Arana, Dani Alves, Nino, Douglas Luiz, Bruno Guimaraes, Matheus Cunha, Richarlison, Antony, Claudinho.
Ordinarily, Spain would then have played the beaten finalists, but Czechoslovakia had been disqualified from the tournament.
Spain thus advanced straight to the silver medal match against Holland, beaten in the semi-finals by gold medallists Belgium.