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Spain is going to have a hard time in this European Championship. That does not mean that he will play a good or bad role, but even in a scenario that is difficult to imagine today, the one where Spain is drawn in the last steps of the tournament, it will have a hard time. Because Spain is a good team, and they do quite a few things quite well, but they lack that which is essential to walk with aspirations: they don't have a goal.

It does well, then, everything that depends on work

. What depends on talent, you know, you cannot work. [0-0: Narration and statistics]

Thus, when a team, on a date like this, does not have a goal, it is condemned to have a bad time. Against Sweden he had more than enough options to have solved the debut with ease, but

a horrible night from Morata

and the little accompaniment of the rest turned the first date into another disappointment, because in the calm analysis there are relative good news, but in the cold data It is observed a Spain that tied.

It should be emphasized:

little can be reproached to Spain

.

There is little to blame for an impeccably academic team.

The selection is like that expensive boarding school where all the children are equally dressed and styled, they smile when they are greeted and say good morning, good afternoon, thank you and please.

The youth of the team and the unquestionable leadership of the coach make no one want to get out of what has been requested of them on the board.

If, as happened, Sweden's forwards covered the first pass from the centrals to Rodri, it was the midfielders, Koke and Pedri, who were in charge of giving continuity to the game, but almost always horizontally.

Olsen stops

The boys are very afraid of being wrong, so the team needs to do everything right to find the way to the goal. All well within the agreed, because

improvisation does not fit here

. The talent again. Positions to be counted, Spain had a shot from Dani Olmo that Olsen took with a great save, a distant first attempt by Koke, the second, and very clear, Koke's shot again from inside the area that went high, a hand to Morata's hand, who had all the time in the world to throw it out, and threw it, a distant shot by Dani Olmo that Olsen stopped again, a point-blank shot by Gerard Moreno almost at the end, several interned on the outside ... Against That, in the first half Sweden barely stepped on the area twice, but of course, in one of them Isak crashed a ball into the post after a carom with Marcos Llorente who, just as he fell into the hands of Unai Simón, could have gone inside .

Spain played well, then. He moved the ball with relative ease and generated enough chances to have put himself up on the scoreboard, but this team has a hard time scoring goals, and on the contrary, the rivals, with very little, do him a lot of damage. The lineup, which is unusual, did not offer too many surprises. If anything, the bet on two left-handed centrals, with

Laporte shifted to his right

, and the ownership of Pedri. Precisely from the Canary Islands the most vertical of Spain was born, insufficient to break the Swedish structure. In fact, the Spanish occasions were mainly born from other people's mistakes. The occasion Morata inexplicably squandered stemmed from a rude misstep by Danielson. However, Spain needs perfection to score, and of course ...

Isak and Pedri, during the match in Seville.Kiko HuescaEFE

Thus it was that the party, with everything, was leaden. Spain deserved to go up on the scoreboard, but the fact is that it could not and the night was coming on Seville with the certainty that the first step in a tournament like this is always something complex, and more so for a team that

has not trained together in the previous week

and that he has barely had half a dozen training sessions in 15 days to work, being a new team as well, with players who barely know each other and, it should be emphasized, without the personality yet to challenge what is written in the previous schemes. So yes, Spain had 79% possession and gave more than 800 passes passes in 90 minutes for 21% and just over 100 for Sweden. But no, that as long as this sport is about scoring goals, this only serves to do math.

On the return, Morata had another option that he sent out and loose.

He was hitting his head against a wall Spain around the locker room, unable to find the ways, also seeing how the rival had something that she lacks.

Isak, the Real Sociedad footballer

, generated more danger by himself by playing two balls than the national team with all the time in the world.

Luis Enrique moved the bench to stay without a pure center forward.

He retired Morata, unfortunate, and put Sarabia leaving Ferran in the lead.

Turned to

Thiago

, more anarchic, in the place of Rodri.

To finish off his team, the Swedish coach removed Isak from the field, and from then on Spain lived (still) calmer.

Did it help?

Well, not much, really.

With Ferran and Dani Olmo, the official agitators, missing, the team was never able to destabilize the Swedish structure, definitively committed to wasting time.

Oyarzabal and Gerard Moreno, the fittest Spanish striker, entered and in the last 10 minutes, also due to the opponent's fatigue, Spain found paths that it had not seen before.

He had some occasion, but he was left with the feeling that it does not work.


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