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Suddenly, the left-handed Pablo Fornals lit up Pristina's night. Because in Luis Enrique's Spain, actors suddenly stop being secondary, when nobody expects it. Because that shoe by Fornals on the irregular mat of a lively and agitated Fadil Vokrri stadium, with a thousand and more throats in the stands invited by the Kosovar federation, was a small blow of relief to try to overcome that extreme situation, on the way to the World Cup. Qatar While in Athens, a bumpy drive from there (785 kilometers), Greece knocked Sweden down with goals from Bakasetas and Pavlidis (2-1), which allows Spain to depend on itself for the direct pass.

«This has been like a childbirth and those of complications.

We have had failures in easy passes and success on occasions that are not very clear.

I hope that in November we will be better », admitted Luis Enrique, relieved by the results.

The one in Pristina and the one in Athens.

A duel clarified by Fornals, a guy who made his debut with the Spanish team in 2016, when he was only 20 years old.

Vicente del Bosque called several players who stood out at that time, in the absence of the Real Madrid, Atlético and Barcelona players, still on vacation.

It happened days before the European Championship in France, in a friendly where he played seven minutes against Bosnia, in Switzerland.

Until yesterday, with the half hour against Georgia, last Sunday, where he gave an assist to Pablo Sarabia, he had barely added an hour as an absolute international.

But Fornals, who has started the Premier with West Ham (two targets and a goal pass in three games), has never lost sight of the national team. Neither have some of the teammates who ran on the Pristina lawn last night. "We have two games left and Sweden is not that we have taken their measure. That we depend on us does not mean that we are going to achieve it, "said the national coach, who repeated the key to a new victory:" This works because, more than a selection, we are a team.

Íñigo Martínez

returned to the title

, who was forced to take a surprise respite before the European Championship. The central defender left

Eric García

on the bench

and tried to lead

the Spanish defense

together with

Aymeric Laporte

. Íñigo inherited in his day (January 2018) the number 4 that Laporte left in Athletic, after his signing for Manchester City. So between the two of them they tried to barely protect Unai Simón, who sighed when he saw how

Muriqi

, the sharpest man in Kosovo, made the side of the net shake after a miscalculation by Martínez himself, his bodyguard in San Mamés. Muriqi always went around sowing intrigue and that is why Luis Enrique, faced with the uncertainty, ended up using the veteran

Albiol

to show a little more temperance and less tremors with those three centrals.

Ferran's scoring average

For a while in the second half, Spain wore a right flank that looked more like a take-off platform.

As soon as

Marcos Llorente

passed by

, he was tied as a lane for an hour, after embroidering it as an interior days before against Georgia, as

Adama Traoré

did, always showy

.

That is where the selection looked for a sentence with which to get rid of the fears that could derive from a Kosovar backlash.

Or some loose ball like the one that

Bytyqi

hit

, which forced Simón to show off and made Luis Enrique shrink.

Ferran Torres scores Spain's second goal.ARMEND NIMANIAFP

Morata

left incredulous

, who thought that the thing was not going with him, when

Pablo Sarabia

appeared by the band.

And they swallowed hard from the bench until

Ferran Torres

, who has no less than 10 goals in 20 games with only 21 years, put the calm that this team needed so much.

It took a dose of VAR, yes.

Now Spain is relying on itself.

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