SportSummary Spain - Slovakia: Spain shows pride | Eurocup

Summary Spain – Slovakia: Spain shows pride | Eurocup

Spain took pride and football to beat a weak Slovakia , who gave us a hand by scoring two goals in their goal. We play with intensity, touch and courage. Luis Enrique’s revolution was perfect, with four changes in the eleven, and the team had a scoring feast to finish second in their friendly group in the Eurocup. Laporte, Sarabia and Ferran Torres also scored. Morata , cheered by La Cartuja, missed a penalty in the first half. In the second round, Croatia awaits us.

Luis Enrique did his thing. As the mythical Yoyas , from Big Brother , used to say, « pa ‘ chulo, chulo, mi pirulo». The Spanish coach, who suspected changes in the lineup, broke an author’s eleven. And on top of it. He brushed Pau Torres , Marcos Llorente , Rodri and Dani Olmo with a stroke of the pen and introduced (with shoehorn) Azpilicueta , Eric García , Busquets and Sarabia . No one will be able to say that they expected it.

He has noses that in a group with Sweden and Poland as rivals, friendly as an English butler, the game against Slovakia ends up being definitive for Spain. Well it was. On the way out, Luis Enrique, in the meantime, repeated with Unai Simón under the sticks, with a line of four behind made up of Azpilicueta, Eric García, Laporte and Alba ; three midfielders ahead, Busquets, Koke and Pedri; and three players above: Sarabia on the right, Gerard Moreno on the left and Morata, always in the spotlight, as a center forward.

At around six o’clock in the afternoon, with the relentless sun illuminating the lawn (to call it somehow) of La Cartuja , after the loroloro of the national anthem, the Spain-Slovakia began that quickened our pulse. At least at least. Jesusito of my life, that you are a child like me, that Morata and Gerard Moreno score us two.

We left with the haste that a deputy leaves the hemicycle on the eve of a bridge. We dominate. We squeeze. The first chance came after four minutes and had it, who else , Morata. He threw a good uncheck, went into the area and his low shot took him down Dubravka , Slovakian goalkeeper with the name of vodka, with a firm hand. Neither Pedri knew how to take advantage of the rejection.

Manda Spain

Spain translated its dominance into a VAR penalty, clamorous and obscene, but VAR, which Hromada committed while trying to clear the ball and clear Koke’s leg. Morata asked for it, as in school. Guess the end? You are right. It failed . Erred. He screwed up. He pulled to break and once again showed that all the one-eyed people in the world have looked at him at the same time.

Overcome the setback, Spain continued to do its thing. Attack inside, outside, in the center and on the sides. Anywhere. Another resounding occasion came in the 17th after a delicious pass from Pedri, who Sarabia could not finish off on goal. Nor a minute later Pedri himself was able to take advantage of the rained center of Azpilicueta that Morata had combed at the far post.

By the way, the Spanish striker, unavailable to discouragement, tried again in the 23rd with a distant shot that he rejected, adorning the goalkeeper Dubravka. Precisely the Slovakian goalkeeper, an amateur pianist, gave us a hand to get in the 29th the goal we had deserved for so long. Everything was born from a very violent shot by Sarabia, which crashed against the crossbar. Dubravka arrived and, trying to clear it, he shoved it inside.

Thanks, Dubravka

As Di Stéfano said to that doorman whose name I don’t want to remember, “the ones that go inside don’t worry me, but don’t put those that go outside.” In any case: thank you, Dubravka . The goal reaffirmed Spain in their positions. The domain of Luis Enrique’s selection was bordering on harassment.

Spain was lifting its foot and gave Slovakia a break. Still we do not stop prowling the area of our beloved Dubravka. In the end, shortly before Kuipers whistled half-time, we made the second. Laporte scored it after a genius from Gerard Moreno , who made a nut-job with the ball in the small area and put it on the head of the City center-back.

With the 2-0 we went to rest, from which we returned with a couple of changes in Slovakia. Luis Enrique , happy with his family, did not touch anything. He did well. Spain continued to manage the match although Slovakia tried to stretch. Busquets ruled the center and Sarabia, very active, appeared everywhere.

Walk in La Cartuja

And it was Sarabia who scored the third in 55. Spain cooked the play with Slovakia very withdrawn. The ball drifted into the feet of Jordi Alba , who saw Sarabia uncheck. The PSG player, one of the most prominent in Spain, made the third with the calm of good footballers. Luis Enrique’s team finished the game, while Sweden made the second, which almost condemned us to be second if it was not because Lewandowski quickly achieved 2-1.

We surpassed the hour of the game and we had half an hour ahead of us, which Luis Enrique could use to try things out. He did it in ’64: Ferran Torres for Morata , applauded by an audience that showed love, magnanimity and patience in equal measure.

And it took less than a minute to score a great goal ma-ra-vi-llo-so . Pedri and Sarabia drew a millimeter wall and the City crack put it in the area. Ferran Torres entered there to get a beautiful and effective resource: the heel. The goal would have been signed by Guti himself .

In 1970 Pau Torres and Thiago replaced Busquets and Eric García . And a minute later came the fifth. It was put back by a Slovak, this time Kucka , who scored in his own goal after a poisoned shot by Pau Torres. Well, that, the mythical own door became Spain’s top scorer in the Eurocup with two goals.

More changes from Luis Enrique. Adama, desired by Seville, and Oyarzabal, by Gerard Moreno and Azpilicueta. They were the minutes of the garbage but La Cartuja chanted the game of Spain with bullfighting olés. Spain let time pass while Lewandowski , who scored a double against Sweden, made us group leaders.

In the end, Spain did not want to make more Slovak blood and ended up sealing the 5-0, uncorked the top scorer ketchup (or champagne, as Luis Enrique would say), but Sweden’s last goal condemns us to be second in the group. Our opponent in the second round will be Modric’s Croatia.

But that will be another story.

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