While
Bryan Gil
attended the official camera of the Federation to tell what he had felt in his debut "I'm happy, but screwed up," he said naturally, and while
Marcos Llorente
took pictures with the ball boys looking like they had run two marathons in a row, the silence of the Nuevo Los Cármenes made the tie even more gloomy, which leaves Spain in an uncomfortable position.
He has seven games left to fix the stumble with the Greeks, but with Sweden's victory over Georgia (
Luis Enrique's
next rival
) there is no room for another scare.
Only the first in the group goes directly to the World Cup, and the second will be immersed in a very dangerous double play-off.
Spain has not missed a big date since 1992.
Luis Enrique, in these situations, is more energetic if possible.
It is as if he wanted to transmit more energy after the fiasco.
His team, which has won one of the last five games, which yesterday accumulated
80% of possession and more than 1,000 passes
, was not the same, despite the nine men who repeated, that the one that thrashed Germany.
«My team has been at a spectacular physical level.
In everything that is positioning, ball speed, etc ... we have been very good.
In everything that is the last third of the field, we have lacked freshness and finesse ».
And that, freshness and finesse, were terms repeated ad nauseam by the Asturian coach, who acknowledged that he did not expect this result, and that things are getting complicated.
Why so much difference then between November and yesterday?
"The difference is between what one team proposes and another," he said, and did not want to describe the night as a disappointment.
«Put the adjective you want»
For the rest, the players pulled the usual platitudes.
"A play like the penalty kick changes a game," said
Morata
, who has 19 goals in 37 games.
"We knew that Greece was going to be complicated, because defensively they are a great team," declared Marcos Llorente.
Pedri
, by the way, became the sixth youngest player to debut for Spain, at 18 years and 120 days.
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