23 fixed and five illustrious doubts: this is Luis Enrique's list for the World Cup

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"Now what I want is to go home, rest, analyze this game well and start thinking about the list".

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It's been a month and a half, more or less, and Tuesday's high in Braga, beating again a great team like Portugal ("we're both candidates,"

admitted ), will have subsided.

The scenes of joy will have been forgotten when, on Monday the 14th, Spain concentrates in Las Rozas, when on Tuesday the 15th they travel to Amman (Jordan), when on Thursday the 17th they play the last friendly there, when on Friday the 18th they arrive in Doha and when on Wednesday the 23rd I made my debut against Costa Rica.

, said the coach, owner of two accessions to the Final Four and a Eurocup semifinal, lost by penalties, with a group of mid-level players, far from the quality of the great powers.

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The big question, which is not clear to the coach himself, is how many players he is going to bring.

In the last European Championship, being able to call up to 26, he only had 24. For Qatar, there is also the option of taking 26, and this time the coach does not close that door, as he did last year.

Why?

Easy.

.

"I have to value it, I'm not sure, it's one of the things we have to decide. It's true that they can all be on the bench, but it's a short tournament, there aren't many games... We also have to think about how it's going to influence that in the health of the group...", explained the coach in the press room in Braga.

The truth is that, if there are no injuries, alarming poor form or unexpected script twists, there are 23 names that are fixed to be on that list.

For starters, the three goalkeepers.

have been together in recent calls, and the coaching staff believe they have found the perfect trio to face such a competition.

The starting role, of course, and even more so with the superb performance against Portugal, goes to Unai.

In defense, things are also clear: the two right backs are

.

The four center backs, despite the positive incorporation of people like Guillamón or Diego Llorente, seem defined in

, absent these last two due to injury in this appointment.

He will not predictably carry a fifth central defender, and less seeing Rodri's performance the other day.

The two left backs,

if they don't get injured.

In all, eight.

offensive vocation

For the center of the field, those indicated are

in the pivot,

for the interiors.

And

to introduce a different profile, with the addition for the Atlético player that he can also play as a full-back at a given time.

And then comes the lead, which is where five regulars are going to go (

) ​​and almost all the doubts are concentrated, as the Asturian admitted: "If I have to reinforce some line for the World Cup, it will undoubtedly be that of the forwards, because the vocation of this team is to always attack, and that is where we need more variables".

All of those mentioned (3 goalkeepers, 8 defenders, 7 midfielders and 5 forwards) add up to 23. There are those who add the recently discovered name of

to these fixed players , but the Athletic winger does not yet have such a condition.

In summary, Luis Enrique will have to summon one, two or three more, depending on whether he wants to close the quota of 26. And of course, a review of the names allows one to intuit that there will be some important casualties.

The first in that list is

.

Cited for the first time by this coaching staff, pointed out by the coach himself as one of the references for the future of his project, the absence on this list, plus the veiled criticism when explaining it ("he doesn't play on his team, and that It already tells you something", affirmed Luis Enrique), they imply that there is something about the player, on or off the field, that he does not like.

The other big pending name is

.

Away from the radar for months, he was in June and has been now, leaving a good feeling in the match against Switzerland.

From there to the back emerge

(let's see if he arrives in time after his cruciate ligament injury),

and, as midfielders,

or

, all of them with fewer options, today, than the others.

But this is Spain, and he is Luis Enrique, so who knows...

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