Spain has fun with great football and thrashes a tender Iceland

And that Riazor was attending a supposedly friendly match. friendly was but Luis Enrique He has injected so much competitiveness into his team that every minute is a treasure. They were 10 new compared to Saturday. 10 new ones and the old Morata, who redeemed himself with an excellent goal, 1-0, which rewarded the superb collective performance of Spain.

The silky, filtered and diagonal pass from Hugo Guillamón, the Valencia player, tore through the Icelandic defense because he also had the complicity of Carlos Soler, who cunningly let the ball pass between his legs. He didn’t even need to touch it, allowing the Juventus striker to tame the ball and finish gently to hit Luis Enrique what he asked for. Offensive forcefulness. And after two minutes, the devil that is Dani Olmo invented a sensational play down the left flank, leading up to three defenders to the small front, unable to stop him.

Lucho’s ‘nine’

Okay, yes. They did stop the talented Leipzig player, who at 23 makes one wonder why he isn’t at any big club in his country. They did it, but committing a penalty. Another opportunity, and this one even simpler, for bruise define calmly signing the second goal of the selection. Two minutes and two goals and the ‘nine’ of Fought He continues to add to his statistics because he has scored 25 goals in his 52 games.

Even before clearly dominating the scoreboard, Spain was ruling the match with an insulting authority, which is, without a doubt, a good rehearsal for the Asturian coach. He chose two teams (Albania and Iceland) with a defensive mentality, capable of setting up their base camp in their own area.

Teams that put patience and calm to the test, something that Luis Enrique’s team demonstrated, who lives happily with that suffocating pressure with which he subdues his enemies, in addition to calmly passing the ball. But without bureaucracy, everything executed at maximum speed.

The joy of Jordi Alba

It is enough to see, for example, the Barça winger, who wore the Spanish captain’s armband due to the absence of Busquets, to understand the joy of the game. Alba signed an impeccable first half. But he didn’t have enough.

And two minutes into the second half, everything happened in two minutes, he served a great assist from the left wing to Yeremy Pino, who in an exercise full of self-determination went ahead of the Icelandic defense to make it 3-0, while Riazor chanted the names of Pedri and Gavi, symbols of Luis Enrique’s youthful Spain.

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Massive changes came, but nothing changed because Mark Alonso made of Alba supported both in the precise passes of Carlos Soler assisting Sarabia, who became Morata with an accurate header to portray the resounding 4-0. At first, the goal was elusive, but later, and as a result of good play, he ended up seeing everything he wanted Luis Enrique. A Spain connected to the game in such a way that it never gave the feeling that it was a friendly night, with Riazor given over to Gavi and Peteri, the children who embody the hopeful work of Lucho.

The more outside noise about his future, the better his Spain plays.