Luis Enrique considers starting Robert Sánchez in Euro 2020

One of the hottest debates in the Spanish team, beyond the criteria when preparing the call, resides in the goal. The defense of the Spanish goal has not been clear for years. Since the replacement of Iker Casillas, neither Del Bosque, nor Moreno, nor Luis Enrique have hit the key. A few weeks before the Eurocup begins, doubts remain about who will be the starting goalkeeper. In recent weeks, Robert Sánchez has been winning integers to put himself under the sticks of Spain, given the unfortunate performances of his two teammates, practically being a stranger, he slipped into the last list of Luis Enrique before the championship, on his own merits. From the shadows, he seized his opportunity in modest English Brighton to make himself undisputed. His great interventions, have a large part of the responsibility for the good season that his team has curdled in the Premier, which has served him to be the third in contention for the national team’s goal. In recent months he has even shown himself to be one step above a proven goalkeeper such as De Gea and another called to be the future of the national goal, such as Unai Simón. Neither of them has managed to convince in this final stretch of the course, which may cost them ownership in the tournament that will take place over the next month.The Cartagena goalkeeper has become one of the great revelations of the season in the Premier League. He started the course as a reserve, he had an opportunity in the first days, before returning to be a starter and earning a spot in the eleven that he would no longer lose.In total, he has played 27 league games this season, conceding the same goals, but with great interventions that have led him to leave a clean sheet in 10 games. Something not easy, considering that Brighton is a team called to fight for permanence, which they have achieved comfortably. Suddenly, the call of Luis Enrique After settling under the sticks of Brighton, the Murcian received the call of the National Team. The inclusion of Robert Sánchez in Luis Enrique’s list for the first three qualifying matches for Qatar 2022, played in March, was the big surprise. Being barely a stranger to the Spanish public, he caught the attention of the coach, who decided to bet on him to try to increase the level of the goal.His great saves in matches against important rivals of the Premier, had made him an alternative to the Spanish goal. Then, he did not play a minute, but during the Eurocup his situation can change a lot. Luis Enrique has already warned that he intends to give the 24 members of the expedition the opportunity and, in the case of Sánchez, what would be his debut could make him a permanent fixture.At 23 years old, he has a whole career ahead of him and, Earning ownership in the National Team’s goal, he can establish himself as the goalkeeper of Spain. The timing couldn’t be more precise. Since the departure of Casillas, the Red team does not have the reliability required under the sticks for a team of this level and Robert has already shown in his club that he is. Simon and De Gea, in a difficult moment, Robert Sánchez could become during the season. Eurocup in the starting goalkeeper of the Spanish team on his own merits, but also on the demerit of his two teammates at the goal.Unai Simón and David de Gea are not exactly going through their best moment of form. The two have left many doubts in this last season, a situation that the Cartagena team can take advantage of to overtake them and stay with the position. Unai Simón’s reliability has been less, precisely, since he started to start with Spain. Turned into one of the goalkeepers with the fewest goals in the League, with a solid defense like that of Athletic, he knocked on the National Team’s door and Luis Enrique gave him the opportunity to be their goalkeeper. In addition to good performances, his footwork improved. presented as a reason to take into account for the coach. However, over the months it has diminished. He has gone from making great interventions to failing clamorously on more than one occasion, sowing doubt not only in the Bilbao team, but also in the face of the European Championship, but if Simón has been discussed this season, De Gea’s course has not gone better. The Manchester United goalkeeper has been away from his best version for years, the one that led him to leave an Atlético that has nothing to do with the great team that he is today, to join the then English giant and stay a few minutes from signing for Real Madrid. In recent seasons, the Toledo goalkeeper has been less, above all, in key selection.After losing the position that he was called to take over for many years, De Gea still does not raise his head. The bad luck seems to prevail with the goalkeeper of the red devils, signaled even more after losing the final of the Europa League against Villarreal. In the eternal penalty shootout he failed to stop any – as he has not done since 2016 – and, in addition, he failed the final one. The great beneficiary of all is Robert Sánchez.The doubts surrounding the ownership of the other two goalkeepers on the list for the European Championship in Spain, leave him as one of the possible big surprises of the coach’s first lineup in the tournament. His appearance in the March call-up was unexpected, his presence in goal against Sweden would not be so.