Gavi, Sarabia and goalkeeper Unai have been the only three players who have started in all three games, and Ansu Fati is the only one who has not played a single minute
The line-up for the first match was the same as for the third match. The second could be that it was repeated in the fourth game. It will be seen on Sunday, against the Czech Republic. Luis Enrique has devised two basic alignments that he has alternated, but in all of them there is a common, invariable link. Three players have repeated in all three.
One of them is the youngest in the team. Such that he was an irreplaceable consecrated, Gavi has always been a starter. A solid, unconditional, convinced commitment by Luis Enriqueas was demonstrated when he promoted his debut in October last year and made him the youngest footballer in history debuting with the national team. He was 17 years and 62 days old. He hasn’t turned 18 yet.
Only Fati is missing
Also paul sarabia He has always remained in the team, the striker needed to regain his maximum confidence as a footballer to relaunch his career. On the payroll of Paris Saint Germain, he was loaned to Sporting de Portugal given that he would not have a minute in Paris. He scored the goal of the first victory in the League of Nations. The irreplaceable third was Unai Simon, the goalkeeper. Something more predictable, in the case of the figure of the goal, although Luis Enrique usually rotates them.
The same players played again on the third day as on the first, except for Marcos Llorente, who took the place of Carlos Soler. But not in the first, second or third game Ansu Fati has been seen. If Gavi is the one who never misses, Ansu is the one who never appears. He is the only outfield player who has not yet played a minute. He was seen warming up on the wing, but he has not yet set foot on the playing field. He has one chance left this Sunday in Malaga.
De Tomás, ill, returns
That opportunity does not remain for Raúl de Tomás. He missed the appointment and will miss next Sunday against the Czech Republic, a game he would have played if Luis Enrique kept the trend of alternating line-ups. Much to his dismay, he went on vacation and sick.
The Espanyol striker got up feeling unwell and the doctors, after testing him for covid-19, which was negative, ruled that he was suffering “an infection in the upper respiratory tract with a febrile process”, according to the medical part of the federation.
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In view of the fact that the player could neither train normally in the next few days nor play the two games, Luis Enrique understood that he could return to Spain and start the holidays. Nor will his absence be replaced, as was the first casualty at the start of the concentration. Thiago Alcántara attended with a muscle injury and was sent home. n