Spain catches a cold at night in Madrid

• De Gea: the stop that dilutes the debate

Spain caught a cold, and a cold is a bad matter in these times when the team tries to establish a relationship with the fans.

The interest that the first half hour could arouse against Portugal was diluted because

was clueless, turned off by an opponent who was indecipherable from minute one, which prevented him from having the ball and not only having the ball, but also run.

Spain did not know how to get their hands on Switzerland and only one goal after a rude mistake by the opponent allows them to win.

Yes, winning is not a small thing, but in the state of neglect that the national team has today, winning is not enough.

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Switzerland is a good team.

A good team seen from the less purist perspective of football, one that defends the equality of the roads, be it a five-lane highway or a rocky path.

Switzerland are a good team because they

.

Switzerland is a good team because it puts pressure in an admirable way and because it ends up drowning a team, the Spanish, with many more technical arguments than it.

Switzerland is a sticky team that, in the first counterattack they were able to mount, made a mess for the entire Spanish team that only De Gea, with a spectacular hand, could stop.

So Spain was involved in a sticky team from the first minute.

Unable to shake off a rival who was pure velcro, it was another pressure, his own, that gave him the option to get ahead on the scoreboard, something he would not have been able to achieve otherwise.

Switzerland, whose 5-3-2 announced a bus in Valdebebas, instead wanted to go out with the ball at their feet from their goalkeeper, and that, if they do not have a high technical level, is little less than suicide.

Thus it happened, that a ball from his goalkeeper ran into an inopportune slip and

that Oyarzabal took advantage of, yesterday, the center forward of the national team.

False or not, it was nine.

Ansu Fati, without appearing

The goal was a relief for Spain, which found in that advantage the only good news of an otherwise uncomfortable night.

Because of the rival, but also because of the wind and cold, and because of the absence of the public, and also because of the absence of pedigree in the competition, and for counting absences, we must also count Ansu Fati's, who could barely come into contact With the ball.

The Barça player was one of the nine changes that the coach made compared to Wednesday.

He only kept

, for whom he seems to feel a special predilection, because he plays everything he can.

The first half died like this, cold and with a goal advantage after a failure.

Spain puts a lot of pressure on their rivals, and moves a lot, but it took a horror to find the way to the goal.

It seemed to have it better at the start of the second half, when now, Fati faced a center-back and Oyarzabal did not reach a Navas center by a pure miracle.

In fact,

stepped on the accelerator and put Spain in (more) trouble.

Switzerland is the classic team that, without many references for the general public, Spain can be found in any group stage of a great championship and sweat ink to win.

Without going any further, which is quite far,

, but the typology is what counts: groups that are hard-working, hard-working, sweaty and capable of embittering anyone's session.

In this Spain of Luis Enrique things continue to be seen, even on silly nights.

The defensive balances, which are nothing more than running back when the ball is lost, are very fast, and are executed by the five or six players closest to the ball without thinking.

He also pushes as high as he can, trying to create superiority to the keeper of the ball.

The technician tries to keep the team short, that there are few meters between the forwards and the defenders, and to that contributes the tremendous state of form of

and the solvency, with and without the ball, of Pau Torres, who seems to have come to stay.

The changes didn't change anything.

Ansu Fati left, unknown - perhaps discreet matches are normal at his age - and

entered

.

Except for two or three starts as soon as he left, he was not seen either.

Spain was diluted and Switzerland, little by little, took over the game.

They began to play much closer to De Gea than to Sommer, and Luis Enrique's shouts in the absence of a quarter of an hour - "No rush, no rush!" - were very revealing of how things were going.

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