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It is understandable that the names still say nothing. Robert Moreno, Diego Llorente, Fabián, Saúl, Ceballos, Alcácer ... It is also understandable that several sessions are necessary to change the trend. It is understandable, finally, that until the arrival of the European Championship the selection does not end up beyond some residual sources. It is understandable all that and, nevertheless, it is obligatory to verify that Spain dispatched yesterday the best night for a long time. Even many years. Along the way there have been other goals, and some recent (6-0 to Croatia 12 months ago), but nowhere did he display the intensity, vertigo, verticality and good football he taught yesterday. It is not that Romania is anything of the other Thursday, but before similar rivals Spain has left really reproachable nights. Not yesterday. Yesterday the team played great. He defended well and attacked better. If it had not been for the Romanian goalkeeper, the result would have been scandalous. A bad time passed, it is true, after 1-2, but the whole game was immensely superior. [Narration and statistics: 1-2]
Before demolishing the great night of Spain it is worth stopping at the details. The first speaks of Kepa being Robert Moreno's starting goalkeeper. Beyond what he can say in the press conferences, which are that, press conferences, his goalkeeper is Kepa. The second is that Dani Carvajal has left a very tough competitor, because Jesús Navas returned to complete a good game as a right back. The third is that Fabian has arrived to stay and become a very important player from now on. And the fourth is that, with all the buts that can be put, Paco Alcácer is a striker who scores goals. And, after all, the strikers, beyond aesthetics, are there for that, to score goals.
The only thing Spain can shave last night is precisely that it marked much less than it generated. Only in the first half did he have half a dozen clear scoring chances. A hand by hand of Alcácer, a header from Ramos after a rehearsed corner, a shot from Alba close to Navas center, another shot from Rodrigo after a wonderful choral play ... It was only Spain capable of scoring a penalty on Ceballos . Ramos, who at the moment is impeccable in luck, put his people ahead and, because of an innocuous celebration, saw yellow and suffered the (inexplicable) whistles of the Romanian public spirits. That yellow, by the way, was the first of the tremendous (for inexplicable) decisions of Aytekin (yes, that of Barça-PSG), a peculiar referee who, so to speak, does not give one.
The fact is that Spain went to rest delighted to have met, and rightly so. Moreno has the same traces that Luis Enrique intended. The defense very high and faster circulation. The two leaflets that yesterday participated with Busquets contribute a lot to this. Saul and, especially, Fabian, are guys who don't repair much in ornaments. When they can, they play forward and rarely their first option is horizontal, which this team is grateful for. Playing between the lines, Ceballos brings the fantasy that others do not have. This was the second goal, just around the break, when the Arsenal player leaked a wonderful pass to Jordi Alba, who handed the goal to Paco Alcácer.
It is true that a viewer of the last minutes shows sweats for Spain, retreated because Aytekin showed the red in a very doubtful play of Llorente with Puskas - by the way, a striker who is a nightmare for the defenders -, and also because he missed all the options spoiled in the first half. With the entry of Hagi and Andone, the Cosmin Contra team had two options to tie, especially one, almost in the 90's, which Kepa took in an unlikely stop with his foot. The tie would not have been fair, not even from a distance, since the visitors' recital was capitalized. With final scare, but capitalized.
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