The Spain overturns the Georgia e flies to the quarter-finals where they will face Germany on Friday, in what can be considered the first direct clash between two absolute favourites. The dream of Kvaratskhelia and his companions ends in the round of 16, protagonists of a European Championship beyond all expectations, but sunk by a Roja clearly superior in every aspect.
INSIGHTS
Spain-Georgia 4-1
Spain dominated possession, finishing at 90% in the first 17 minutes, but did not materialize their territorial supremacy. So Georgia draws the joker, with the play of the surprise advantage: Mikautadze opens on the right for Kakabadze, cross in the middle with the onrushing Kvaratskhelia who deceives Le Normand, his own goal is the first goal conceded by Spain in this tournament. Georgian celebration in the stands, but on the pitch the siege of Spain continues, who never loses lucidity and continues to play their unstoppable football. Mamardashvili flies on a poisonous left-footed shot from Cucurella and says no to Nico Williams, but has to surrender to the unstoppable tracer of Rodri for the equaliser a handful of minutes before half-time.
It’s the play that La Roja needed for a peaceful recovery, after a record-breaking first half: from 1980 onwards no team in the final phase of the European Championships has made more shots than Spain (17) in the first 45 minutes of a match.
Georgia tries another surprise move with a left-footed shot from Kvaratskhelia from beyond the midfield. But Spanish supremacy gives birth to the 2-0 on the Yamal axis – Fabian Ruiz: the first becomes the youngest assist man in the final phase of a European Championship, the second makes it 2-1 with a header. The Spanish continue to accelerate, Georgia has no more and the ending is one-way; Gvelesiani’s own goal is disallowed for offside on the Olmo – Yamal combination, but the 3-1 comes shortly after: unstoppable Nico Williams on the left, who dribbles past Gvelesiani and fires the ball under the crossbar for the goal that closes the match. In the final Olmo draws poker with a great striker’s play
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