The Spanish coach, Luis Enrique Martínez, appreciated the win against Costa Rica in the debut of Spain in the World Cup. Lucho stressed that “it was a very special match, with an emphasis on starting the competition in the best possible way and everything has turned out well. Historically we haven’t started with a win and we’ve broken the streak.”
The Asturian stressed that “you don’t have to draw conclusions for winning a game, it was important but everything remains to be decided.” Lucho spoke of the effectiveness of his players and stressed that “I had heard that we were missing a goal, but the statistics say that we scored a lot of goals and different players. We have many players with goals, we always do it collaboratively. The result reinforces us, but Don’t forget Germany, who needs to win and we want to win to be a real option to go as far as possible. We will go out with even more intensity.”
The technician was very clear. “praise weakens”, although he qualified that “it is always better to have a positive current”. Luis Enrique was happy because “they haven’t given us any chances, they haven’t thrown a corner, we’ve dominated from minute one. The midfielders have touched the ball a lot and with the superiorities we create chances. The game went as we wanted and the quality of the players in the final meters, with the acceleration, we have scored. The defensive attitude has been bestial”.
Rotation against Germany
The coach admitted that “there will be changes against Germany” and that he has a “group with a DNA prepared to do something important and will not lower the way they play”.
Luis Enrique explained that “the head is very important, For us, having a psychologist was having a Martian, and it has been vital so that the player would not come out overexcited. It gives me the thorn that this team is not going to relax. We will do the same. Germany can beat us, but we’re not going to speculate.”
The penalty sheet
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