Spain plans to land in Barajas around five this afternoon
With almost no time to deal with another bump in a World Cup, and three in a row already, Luis Enrique’s La Roja returns to Spain on a flight with suitcases full of disappointment and failure. The team left Doha at eleven o’clock – two less here – and landed in Madrid this afternoon after being eliminated on penalties by a Morocco that played its tricks perfectly against a flat team, without plan B and who had possession but did not not knowing how to make danger because of the slowness of their movements, the limited ability to surprise an opponent who, without being anything special, performed his tricks perfectly.
Only 14 of the 26 footballers mentioned by Luis Enrique have traveled on that plane: Unai Simón, Nico Williams, Dani Olmo, Sarabia, Balde, Laporte, Gavi, Busquets, Pau Torres, Ferran, Yéremy Pino, Pedri, Ansu Fati and David Raya . The rest a priori preferred to stay in that area to spend a few days off. The employees of the University of Qatar, the concentration center of La Roja, fired them with national team pennants.
With serious faces, and Luis Rubiales leading the expedition, shattered Spain returns home much sooner than expected, long before Christmas, and it does so with the bitter taste of a missed opportunity at the incapacity of Luis Enrique and his body. to what the opponent proposes. It is very good to have a basic idea, a catechism with which to go into battle, but sometimes in the middle of battle you have to change your strategy because the opponent has discovered a leak or has armored itself and it is impossible to find a loophole to defeat him. And that is what happened to Spain in Qatar. That he never knew how to change his mind. Against Japan, for example, when the score fell short, there hadn’t been a striker on the field since the Spaniard took Morata off the pitch. It was watching the bench and not finding a ‘nine’ to try to break the dense Japanese defense. That’s one of the coach’s “sins”: to list many wingers but only one pure striker, with Borja Iglesias, Spain’s top goalscorer in the league, at home.
Spain set foot again in Madrid this afternoon after everything was like honey and roses against Costa Rica. But against Germany, there were already signs that the defeat of the Central Americans was a mirage. Japan confirmed it and Morocco completed it, a team ranked 22nd in the FIFA rankings, fifteen positions below a red that has once again fallen by the wayside.
Source: La Verdad
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