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Luis Enrique

asked on Thursday told the following information: your team has won one of the last five games he has played (the one

that won, yes, was the muzzle flash against Germany, 6-0).

"I do not comment on such advantageous statistics."

In the absence of knowing what the coach means by "advantage", to analyze everything, and not take neither the beginning nor the end, a stop in their total numbers.

The current coach has managed Spain in 15 games, and wins are fewer than losses and draws.

That is not advantageous.

They are data.

Here is the detail: of those 15 games with Luis Enrique, the team has won seven: England (1-2), Croatia (6-0), Wales (1-4), Bosnia (1-0), Ukraine (1- 0), Switzerland (1-0) and Germany (6-0);

and they have not won eight, tying five: Germany (1-1), Portugal (0-0), Holland (1-1), Switzerland (1-1) and Greece (1-1);

and losing three: England (2-3), Croatia (3-2) and Ukraine (1-0).

More complete data: Spain has scored 28 goals and suffered 13. The matches correspond to two group phases of the League of Nations (in one Spain they finished second and in the other they have qualified for the final phase, to be played in October in Milan ), the first of the qualifying phase for Qatar 2022 (Thursday against Greece) and the rest are friendly.

He has therefore not faced any final phase, despite having acceded to the position after the World Cup in Russia, more than two years ago (with the parenthesis of the disease and the death of his daughter).

The pandemic delayed the European Championship from last summer to this next, and before that there are only two games left, Sunday against Georgia and Wednesday against Kosovo, also on the way to Qatar.

And it is precisely this horizon of a great tournament that increases the uncertainty before a project whose numbers define.

And there is more.

"Each case is different"

There is the fact that Thursday, in Granada, was the day that more players repeated from one game to another (9).

An anomalous situation, because until that moment the number of repeated players remained at 7, having the record for the fewest repetitions at 3. There is also the fact of causing the debut of 21 players in those 15 games.

This project is defined by many things and defined, of course, by the contradictions of Luis Enrique himself, who he himself assumes with a phrase that he repeats like a mantra: "each case is different, and I do what is best at all times."

Under that umbrella titles are assumed such as those of

Eric García

, who has played 35 minutes in the last 27 games for City, and who has not been a starter since the end of October.

Not so tremendous, but it also applies to the case of

Ferran Torres

, owner of two starts in the last 15 games with Guardiola.

With that alibi "each fall is different", they are covered back and forth like that of

Koke

, who came to the second call for Luis Enrique (October 2018), was forgotten for two years and is now indisputable.

In the same case are

Mikel Merino

or

Saúl

, absent in the present.

Although the appearance is that the bet is on the young, we have seen returns like those of

Navas

or

Cazorla

, again outside the plans currently, the validity of

Ramos

or

Busquets

or the ups and downs in the goal, no matter how much now

Unai Simón

seems

the headline.

Very few certainties, in short, and that phrase "each case is different" that basically serves to justify all decisions, even if they are contradictory.

Finally, another piece of information: there are already three games in which Luis Enrique admits that he agrees with Sergio Ramos what he plays.

In Portugal, last October, and in Amsterdam, in November, the captain took the field for five minutes.

"It is a matter of taking care of him and, of course, of him continuing to add games," said the coach at the time.

On Wednesday, against Greece, he played the first half.

"Sergio is perfect, it was said that he would play only the first half," said the Spaniard, alluding to the injury from which he just emerged as a safe-conduct for the decision.

Data.

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