• 1-2 at San Siro Narration and statistics

The value of the tournament is what it is, okay, but leaving Milan having beaten the European champion and having discussed the match against the world champion until the end, being able to wield, in addition, the confusing position of

Mbappé

in the second goal, it is great news for the project led by

Luis Enrique

, who in an official final looked from you to you to France, that's nothing, although he finally gave in to the greater individual quality of his opponent. Spain is not far from the greats. Not much less. With the casualties of more than a dozen (almost) fixed, with the bet on a 17-year-old boy who is a thunderbolt, with a clear idea and with a lot, with a lot of personality, Spain already knows itself in the group from candidates to everything. That does not mean that he will suffer again, surely, because of his beginnings and his lack of goal, but here is a project, here is a direction. Here's a team.

The leader is Luis Enrique, and behind him he has built a group capable of handling an overwhelming team, physically and technically, and equalizing the game with nuances, with positional play, with high defense, with pressure, with the kilometers, with the loyalty to the way of playing. You might think that the natural thing was to repeat the eleven of the other day against Italy, but no.

Luis Enrique turned himself around and did something he had never done before.

He brought Busquets and Rodri together.

So that?

Probably to equalize as much as possible the physical duels, the jumps, the disputes.

Gavi appeared next to them, who was seen all night with Pogba, although in the first ball he touched he took Tchouameni ahead in a manual here I am.

The boy plays, and a lot.

With and without the ball.

Luis Enrique also got Eric García, a time bomb that went off when he won the first race against Mbappé, which is saying a lot.

Then, in the goal that decided the game (and that really seemed offside), he appeared in the photo, but without guilt.

Exit with Azpilicueta

At the beginning, Spain had a bad time. France entered better, with three centrals, two very tall wingers (Pavard and Theo) and two sweepers behind the three megastars. In reality, the world champion was not able, even so, to generate any chance of scoring for Unai Simón in the first half, because Benzema's hand in the 10th minute was offside, and it ended in a goal. it would have been canceled. Deschamps decided that, if the rival was going to get the ball played yes or yes, that Azpilicueta should be in charge, so he placed Mbappé and Benzema on top of the centrals, with Griezmann on Busquets, to look for that exit. The Chelsea captain's drives could have been more productive, but Ferran, very close to the band (unlike against Italy) and Gavi did not finish to specify.

At 10 minutes, Spain had already equalized the game, and from then on it dominated it almost unilaterally through the ball.

France, by the way, does not have the concerns of Spain.

The ball does not come out clean from behind, and less since Varane was injured and Upamecano left in his place, on the brink of halftime.

The Deschamps team plays long and relies on its quality to reach the top.

No more.

And without less, because the danger of the French forwards is sensed just by seeing them walk.

The selection had managed to annul the evident physical advantage, and of individual quality, of the rival.

Happy for 60 seconds

The game went wild in the 60th minute. First Theo crashed a ball off the crossbar after a play by Mbappé.

Later, Oyarzabal won a race against the tremendous (size) Upamecano and put Spain ahead, who was happy for 60 seconds, which took France to thread a three-touch play and Benzema, what a footballer !, from the corner of the area, in drawing a precious parable.

All in three minutes.

On his very first clear occasion, Spain was right.

In his, France was right.

And that, for an aspirant such as Luis Enrique's team today, was a very hard blow.

Mbappé, in the start that led to the 1-2.TVE

Spain fell apart, which was shaken, there yes, by the world champion, sure of having finally found the roads.

It's as if Oyarzabal's goal had awakened the beast.

And France began to arrive more frequently, and with more people, the selection was somewhat long at that time.

Mbappé scored with eight minutes to go and there Spain showed another quality that will be beneficial in the future.

He pulled from the heart, squeezed the tonsils and threw himself on Lloris, who twice saved a draw that the young aspiring to the throne deserved.

He ended up on top of France, warning him that the future has already arrived, and that Spain, Luis Enrique, his project, are already here.

Despite the defeat.

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