Spain leaves more doubts than certainties after a bad night against the Czech Republic

• Classification This is the group of Spain

It is not new, because it has been told many times.

The identity of this team is clear, based on the fixed ideas of its coach.

With the ball, more or less long possessions, with a more or less mechanical positional game and playing inside to finish outside before reaching the box.

Without the ball, press all over the field and retreat at full speed if the opponent overcomes that pressure.

That, everything, is clear.

And he has given him the opportunity to play a European Championship semifinal and a Nations League final against France, and be better than his rival in both cases.

But it also gives him firecrackers like the defeats against

, the draw against

or yesterday.

The idea is always the same, but the average level of the players means that on a good day they can beat anyone and on a bad day... well, they are about to lose to the

.

's goal

at the end makes up for a bad night and allows us to continue with options in this League of Nations, but the taste in our mouths is bad.

It is worth insisting: it is not a surprise.

This team can beat the world champions and draw while suffering with the Czech Republic.

That is the reality, the good and the bad, which is the same, in Spain.

Another of the signs of identity of this team is that the players do not have it.

Identity, it is understood, in the sense that the system and the idea are above names.

Regarding the match against Portugal, only

,

and

repeated .

And the team played the same, but it was bad.

Also from the beginning, where a bad reading of the offside by

after four minutes allowed the Czechs to get ahead through

.. From then on, Spain crashed against the two lines of five of the Czech Republic , who was not in trouble until he suffered the madness of his own coach.

For 40 minutes, Spain had not found a single path to the goalkeeper.

The interiors,

and Gavi, barely appeared, the wingers did not overflow and nobody was able to filter a pass.

lived poorly harassed, and surpassed, by the centrals.

But in the 43rd minute, a clash between Sarabia and

prevented the Czech from continuing.

Well, the coach,

, decided to try to endure the four minutes of injury time without making up for the loss.

The team was badly unbalanced and that's where Gavi found himself (since yesterday

) the gap to equalize a night that was still looking bad for the team.

ANOTHER SCENARIO

After the break, where

came on for Sarabia, perhaps to face a little more, the team's feelings improved, but the first thing that happened was a one-on-one match by

, again taking advantage of a misinterpretation of the line by the defense .

The striker kicked her out and Spain breathed.

At that moment, Luis Enrique put in, at once,

for Raúl de Tomás,

for

and

for

.

On the first ball they touched, Morata left Asensio on the run and his shot crashed into the post.

The game was going downhill for the team, who nevertheless insisted on shooting themselves in the foot again.

It was

, probably the most inexplicable insistence of

.

He is not reminded of any merit with Spain in the 16 games he has played, and he is reminded, instead, of terrible sessions like yesterday, where he did not give a right (Carvajal either).

He missed Kuchta's mark, and also followed the play from the front, so that when he wanted to turn and run behind the striker, he was very late.

Spain pushed behind on the scoreboard, who had options to equalize before Iñigo Martínez, with a header from Asensio's pass, made up at least this version of Spain.

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