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"Spain is not going to recognize or the mother who gave birth," said Alfonso Guerra.
The phrase was valid for the country at the end of the Transition and the phrase is valid for the country's team in the year of the global pandemic.
With a group of deserving men trying to finally change the face of the national team, Spain looked into the eyes of the reigning European champion at home.
Champion at half throttle, champion with the rotations typical of a friendly, too, but champion after all, a team today, the Portuguese, with more arguments to think about optimistic horizons than its rival.
Luis Enrique's team dispatched a neat match, but just as she could have won being better, she could have lost because her rival, being worse, took two shots at the crossbar.
Things about the goal that Spain does not have.
The first 15 or 20 minutes of Spain were stressful for Portugal, much more aware of the friendly nature of the session.
It contributed to this, to the local confusion, the unrecognizableness of the alignment.
After Busquets (117 caps), and removing Rodrigo (23), the other nine added 50 games.
From that anonymity Luis Enrique built an army of lizards that disarmed Portugal.
The constant changes of position, the speed of the movement, the verticality ... A dynamic, daring and disconcerting group for the rival, astonished Pepe, astonished Moutinho, who did not touch the ball until half an hour, unhinged Cristiano ...
With the very clean exit of the ball that Eric García gives (the question remains of how he defends, which is no small thing to be a central defender), with the flight of Ceballos and Canales and the little ornament that a guy like Dani Olmo puts on football , Spain came close to Rui Patricio half a dozen times.
As the problem of this team is the goal, it could not substantiate that superiority.
The team pressed up, stole very close to the rival goal, withdrew the few times it needed to and moved the ball very quickly because these are footballers whose second option is always to stop and touch back.
The first is to touch and run, touch and move, drive.
Especially lustrous was Dani Olmo.
The boy from Leipzig faces whenever he can, a luck in disuse.
Lying on the left, he just had to connect with the two Morenos, Rodrigo and Gerar, somewhat more blurred than the rest.
Much brighter was the return of Dani Ceballos to the team.
He and Canales escorted Busquets, of which the doubt remains whether Luis Enrique already thinks of him as a sentimental support or as an essential reference within a team of substitutes.
Such was the superiority of the unknown Spaniards that Portugal's first shot on goal came in the 25th minute, and went very high.
The second, at 42, the same.
And that's it.
Untill there.
With Cristiano off the hook and hardly worried about scolding his teammates, Kepa lived a placid night in the first half, useless perhaps to regain confidence, but placid.
The second was another thing, to begin with because Cristiano, at the start, launched a missile that spat the crossbar as best he could.
It is what the goal has.
Spain played better, but the goal was something expendable in their work.
Portugal did not play at all (because they could not) but at the time of the game the best option had been theirs.
In fact Renato, on a pass from Cristiano in a counter, also crashed another ball off the crossbar.
That is to say, whoever played better did not create danger, and whoever did not have their night, touched the goal at least twice.
And football is won, what things, scoring goals.
The second part served to see the debut of Campaña and Adama Traoré.
His physique is likely to suggest other sports, but the boy is a thunderbolt.
He gave Semedo the night and put three balls into the area with great intention (one was not a goal by Dani Olmo miraculously).
It is, therefore, a very profitable player.
On the other side Joao Félix, who had 15 minutes, did not catch the goal in the discount by a hair at the exit of a corner.
By that time Ramos was already on the field, who entered 10 minutes to add another game in his revolver.
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