Nations League I Summary and result of Portugal-Spain

It was a calculated risk, but it worked out and the plan of Luis Enrique puts a Spain on the Final Four of the Nations League. And she did it faithful to his author’s selection stamp and with a very suspenseful ending, in which Unai Simon was decisive holding the team and a Nick Williams who lit up the game and assisted Morata in the goal that made the coach’s scoreboard good.

It is difficult to decipher an eleven of the Asturian. He doesn’t have players with hierarchy that he clings to in life-or-death matches. And that is as respectable as it is debatable. For this game the defense changed, the entire midfield and its forward with respect to the team that fell in Saragossa in view of Swiss. Sending to the stands, for some marked and for others protected, to Eric Garcia Already Azpilicueta.

Be that as it may, he lined up an almost unprecedented midfield with Carlos Soler adding arrival with rodry biting and Koke of anchor. top left to Asensio as a shock on the bench with Sarabia generating game next to an inconsequential Fernando Torres Already bruise of stiletto For many, a team created with more in mind world that in the Nations League. To which was added an unrecognizable light blue shirt.

? WE ARE ALL THE JOY @AlvaroMorata Y @willliamsssnico!!

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— Spanish Soccer Team (@SEFutbol) September 27, 2022

A first-party powder

Portugalas a worthy team Fernando Santos that is, he dug in and played speed out after robbery. What drew a start with the ball at the feet of Spain, especially in those of the central Pau and a surprising Guillamon who does not play in that position or in his club. The Portuguese crouched waiting for the moment of the ambush with Christian released on defense. Spain did not risk and Portugal did not uncover. The match, with 81% of Spanish possession, was pasty as a powder, with a distant shot from Snows as the only highlight in the first half hour.

in 32 Bruno Fernandes stole Rodri’s wallet and put Rodri to run Diogo Jota, who forced Unai Simon to save the goal. If there was a plan, it couldn’t be that because at 37 minutes Bruno himself brushed the goal with a shot with the left that kissed the nets on the outside. At the break, Portugal flirted with the goal, while Spain had not shot on goal, and thus it seems difficult to beat anyone. To which was added that the best player was the goalkeeper. To win by boredom, without spirit.

If the eleven was surprising, the substitution he ordered was even more so Luis Enrique to rearrange the game. got into Busquets to midfield and threw back to rodry central, a position in which he has never played. Change of author difficult to explain and even more difficult to understand. In these Unai Simon he returned to save the team in another error behind, but the coach did not flinch, trusting everything to hit the opportunity that fell on him. If any fell… It seemed that the tie was worth it to Spain and it was Portugal who needed the victory.

half hour match

And at the meeting time the Asturian discovered his cards. He had led the match even until then to pick up the pace the last half with Pedri, Gavi Y Yeremi. The midfield began to move without the ball and the revolutions increased. However, the chances did not come and time was running against Spain. Two corner kicks, arrivals in the opponent’s area, full-backs adding to the attack, passes over the lines… Spain, now, was going for the game. Carvajal miraculously took out a shot that went to the net and the Portuguese began to regret wasting their chances. Who forgives… At 70 minutes bruise he took the first shot on goal and seconds later he forgave Christianwith a decisive intervention of Gayá. Things happened…

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A different game of half an hour was played. Nick Williams Y Yeremi they gave him speed up and bruise he was encouraged by hanging down for a ball that ended with a shoe that Diogo Costa got rid of. At the crossroads he could go through anything, but Spain seemed to have more legs and more football. The problem is that she had given away an hour and the rush was against her.

And the plan became perfect when a great pass from Carvajal was headed to center by Nick Williams Y bruise he riveted it to the net. Luis Enrique was right with the game of chess that he had proposed in panties. Spain won by squeezing the board and will be in the Final Four in the Netherlands in June. Where could it be Fought on the bench, except catastrophe in the World Cup. And it will be because he has earned it with another approach as debatable as it is successful, judging by the result.