Barcelona's Olmo ruled out of Spain's World Cup qualifiers

Spain forward Dani Olmo has been ruled out of the European champions' upcoming World Cup qualifiers against Georgia and Bulgaria, the Spanish football federation (RFEF) said on Friday.

The Barcelona forward trained on Friday in a bid to be passed fit for Saturday's match with Georgia, but after some tests he was diagnosed with a muscle injury in his left leg.

The RFEF said that he would return to Barcelona when the rest of Luis de la Fuente's squad travels to Elche to continue their qualification bid.

Spain can secure a place at next year's finals in the United States, Mexico and Canada with back-to-back wins in this international window, if other results in Group E go their way.

La Roja are expected to be title contenders for a second World Cup crown, but De la Fuente wants his players to focus on the job at hand.

"I'm not worried about anything. First, let's qualify. And then we'll think about it (winning the World Cup)," he said.

"We have to take the drama out of defeats and results. Being a champion is very difficult."

Spain lead their qualifying group by three points from Georgia and Turkey, after opening their campaign with crushing 6-0 and 3-0 away wins over the Turks and Bulgaria respectively last month.