The last two minutes of the game were spent with the Spanish players passing the ball, still, and with the German players, still, watching how the Spanish players passed the ball.

It was not a celebration, the one at the end, tremendous, first because the prize was nothing to do with the other Thursday (playing the

Final Four

of this competition) and second because the bathroom had been so big that ...

As always happens, the personality of the players also comes out in moments of joy.

There is the reflective one.

"We asked for patience because we knew the potential we had," said

Rodrigo

, very distinguished.

Then there is the quiet one.

"The goal? The important thing is to generate chances," said

Koke

, even more outstanding.

And then there is ...

Morata

.

"I want to get home and know what is being said there," he said, being able to be defined as the vengeful.

The Juventus forward, always attentive to what is said about him and his teams, wanted to vindicate himself.

His goal, the first after 368 days, number 18 in 36 nights (0.5 on average), was the one that opened the scoring.

He also spoke, yesterday was the night for it,

Ferran Torres

, who has scored in all Champions League matches and yesterday he scored a hat-trick.

"I am very happy, for me and for the whole team," he said.

And he even spoke, yesterday there was no rush,

Unai Simón

, very sincere: "I didn't expect to play all three games, but the coach has trusted me."

And then

Luis Enrique

, the coach,

arrived

, exultant, happy, within the happiness that he is capable of showing in front of the microphones, which is not much.

"I have felt the same that I suppose the fans will have felt. Joy and happiness," he introduced himself.

The Asturian did not come with the invoices for the critics.

"We know what country we are in and we accept any criticism, which by the way most of the time you ignore it. Not now are we as good as someone will say tomorrow, nor were we as bad as they said before," he continued, just before claiming (it was a night for it, things as they are).

"My team put me, and it was not a pose. I said that what I saw I liked and today everything has come out."

The truth is that there was no better way to fire the national team, which does not come together again until March, when it plays the first three qualifying games for the Qatar World Cup.

The draw is next December 7.

Löw

, for his part, took defeat without palliative.

"I'm not afraid for my job," he summarized.

Although reading some headlines in the German press does not seem that way.

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