But he's unhappy with the form of his team.
"We have to deal with an unstable roster and with the decline in play of some players," Bruckner said. "While in the past qualifiers, we needed just 12 players for the basic lineup, now we're much less consolidated."
Without a game on Saturday, Spain slipped two points behind Serbia-Montenegro at the top of Group 7 after the Serbs beat Lithuania 2-0.
Spain hosts Serbia in Madrid Wednesday and the result, with just two more rounds to follow, will be crucial to decide who finishes top.
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