Problems in detecting Spanish Date with es-core-news-lg v3.8.0

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Our org has a requirement for detecting spanish dates that are not in perfect format like dd/mm/yyyy (Predefined DateRecognizer is more then enough for that). But stuff like - "El acontecimiento histórico tuvo lugar el 23 de abril de 2021.". The english translation of it ("The historical event took place on April 23, 2021.") works quite well with en-core-web-lg, spacy identifies it well.

For spanish I am using es-core-news-lg version 3.8.0, but no luck with any kind of dates with months like the one above. Is the model not trained on such date datasets?

The following is my setup -

import spacy

nlp = spacy.load("es_core_news_lg")

doc = nlp("El acontecimiento histórico tuvo lugar el 23 de abril de 2021.")


print(doc.ents)
for ent in doc.ents:
    print(ent.text, ent.label_)