Adama Traoré, this time power without destiny

Adama Traoré brings to this selection something that is not enough: certainties.

Because although his arrival at the national team has been seen in Spain as an unexpected appearance, the reality is that the Wolverhampton player has been wearing in the Premier for no less than a year the virtues that now excite - rightly - the Spanish fans.

His extraordinary ease of extracting juice from each piece of grass, be it meters or centimeters, allows him to face, cut, accelerate and center again and again during games.

And that for a team like the Spanish, so lacking in offensive alternatives in recent years, is pure gold.

Perhaps his duty lies in the precision of the centers, the only subject in which he must improve his grade to confirm himself as a world-class footballer.

A

continually drove down the street from bitterness, but rarely shipments found a natural striker.

In part, it remains written, because it is not Adama's fortress, in part because the auction is today the main headache of Luis Enrique.

, who did not even play in Kiev, is a very particular example of a forward, at times indecipherable, the kind that is not accessed through the most common channels of football, and Rodrigo, simply, has been fighting the goal for too long, no matter how much Luis Enrique keeps his trust in him intact.

Against Ukraine, the Hispanic-Brazilian was chosen, forming a trident son of his time, along with

and Adama, with whom he did not connect.

He did it with

on one occasion, but

scored one of his stops of merit in it.

He did not do much more before, near game time, Luis Enrique changed him to resort again to the alternative of Oyarzabal as a center forward, a resource that seems something else in Luis Enrique's plans in the medium term.

By the way, he also took an

out of the field

who yesterday failed to lift anyone from the seat.

Normal at his age.

One goal in three games

Returning to

, the coach's idea was not necessarily to score goals, but to facilitate them.

"That's!

That's it! ”, Luis Enrique shouted from the sidelines after a play in which the captain of the Real and

, another of the substitutes, found themselves inside the area, while he made a univocal gesture with his hands: touch, touch , touch ... With time and the Ukrainian goal, the order changed, with Sergio Ramos nailed in the opposite area in the final minutes.

Neither recourse to the captain worked and Spain closes this window with a slap in three acts and a single scored goal, after having precisely overwhelmed Ukraine in the September break, endorsing them with a resounding 4-0 in Valdebebas.

final goal

, after a more than debatable departure from

, simply compounded the strong message that this team has too many problems to be harmful in the opponent's area.

With that lack, things like Kiev can happen, which was the first defeat Spain has suffered in Ukraine.

"We dominated the game and created chances, but we lacked finesse in front of goal,"

acknowledged

after the match.

It lacked finesse, which is a euphemism to say that it lacked quality, which is not something that should be surprising either.

At the end of the day, of the six pure attackers in

squad

, only two play in Champions League teams, of which one points to a substitute in his team (

) and the other is still 17 years old.

And two others,

and

, play for teams that are not even playing in European competition this season.

It is what it is.

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