The team closes its magical year, that of the Euro Cup and popular enthusiasm, with another victory. Worked and suffered, but electrifying by the final emotion (3-2). A goal of Bryan Zaragoza In extra time they defeated Switzerland on the last day of the Nations League.
With the first place in the group assured, without sporting details in discussion, once again the national team players find the incentive in the custody of issues that seem minor: the defense of the shirt, the commitment to their country, reaching the level of demand maximum that is requested for going to everyone’s team. Brushstrokes to decorate a dull match, in which Switzerland does not play much, nor does it seem to have any desire.
Luis de la Fuente He is like those nuclear midfielders who always contribute what the play requires. Reasonableness, coherence, normality of action. Athletes who solve problems and who do not transfer the ball, as if it were a problem, to another teammate. In Tenerife the coach decrees a team full of novelties and surnames that demand minutes and a thorough examination of their capabilities.
debut ParedesAthletic’s center back, finally plays Mingueza After three call-ups, Barça’s lynchpin Marc Casadó appears to be the starter, Yeremy Pino receives another pass to show his skills, Remiro defends the goal after five starts for David Raya… What the game asks for.
It happens that football does not flow with the same lucidity, the same channels of creativity are not activated. Some spring squeaks when Remiro has to hit three balls in eighteen minutes because the ball doesn’t come clean from behind. Without complexes, Spain hits the ball so that Morata can catch it or Nico Williams looks for the rebound on the second play.
Spain generates chances from the beginning because, as always, it presses very high, frequently steals near the opponent’s area and seeks advantageous shooting situations. Grimaldo, Nico and Pedri can score quickly, but the goal does not arrive until Morata invents half a goal by subtly raising the ball over a rival’s head and the matter ends in a trip.
Moratawhom De la Fuente praises in every journalistic question as if she were the reincarnation of Saint Teresa, gives the penalty shot to Pedri as requested by the stands due to countryman’s issues. Murphy’s Law is propagated, according to which the toast always falls on the butter side. Failure Pedri the throw, as it was called, and on the second rebound Yeremyanother canary, connects it to the network.
Switzerland does not exist, Remiro is just another spectator, the official match does not give much, and the incentive comes after the break. There is always more interest in the enigma of the new than in the repetition of the known, no matter how Morata it may be. Debuts with the national team Findthe boy who came to Spain in his mother’s search for a better life from Nigeria.
The second period dawned with two mistakes by Paredes, Athletic’s center back. In the first Monteiro he kicks out after overtaking him. In the second, the Swiss attacker takes the ball to the pot after beating Grimaldo in the race and a mistaken defense by Paredes. Draw in a dull match that, suddenly, the youngsters and debutants reactivate.
The team ends the match with an unprecedented and refreshing forward, Bryan Zaragoza, Samu and Bryan Gil. Two dribblers on the wings, two who lift the stands with their feints and cuts, and a rough-looking finisher who finishes piglets. A bright alternative to Lamine Yamal, Nico and Morata.
Bryan Gil shows the meaning of these matches, where nothing is at stake, the ambition of those who want to take over the world appears. The Andalusian striker from Girona steals a ball against the slowness of the Swiss defenders and shoots powerfully at goal. The match is not over because a kick from Fabián to Sierro ends in a penalty that transforms Violence. And in the extension, the sentence: penalty to Bryan Zaragoza which he turns into victory.
