Group E. Results and classification
Narration.
This is how we told you about the game
There's still a lot of World Cup left
, sure,
Costa Rica is what it is
, sure, and
the result in Germany could complicate the group
depending on what happens on Sunday, sure too, but sure, sure, sure,
there's no better way of starting a world championship
with a match like the one dispatched by the national team, a group of guys playing billiards, not soccer, distracting, almost stripping, in short, disarming, an incredulous rival, unable to guess the next move , the next touch, the next wall, the next game changer.
Spain, coral like never before, unraveled the 'ticos' in an exquisite premiere
, ideal broth to get rid of the creepiness that a debut always gives and start looking at Germany with optimism.
With the respect that a quadruple champion deserves, but with the optimism that comes from a historic win, the team's biggest in a World Cup.
Because it is said soon, but it is like this:
Spain has achieved the biggest win in a World Cup in its entire history
.
It goes without saying that
Luis Enrique
touched up the eleven that the common fan could have imagined.
He put
Azpilicueta
in the place of
Carvajal
, who could not train one day, and it is already known that not training one day penalizes here.
And he put
Dani Olmo
in , one of his right eyes since he arrived (like
Ferran
).
Thus, there was only one place left and the coach chose to take advantage of the splendid inertia of a footballer reborn like
Asensio
.
Dying at the beginning of the course, probably the call of the selector in the month of September served as a spigot for a rebirth that has triggered him.
He gave the feeling, yes, that beyond the tweaks, the result, yesterday, would have been the same with other names.
Because the issue was resolved from the first second.
Spain asked to serve from the center and Costa Rica never saw the ball again.
Beyond the goals, which were four and could have been more,
the feeling of superiority was so brutal that Unai Simón did not have to intervene for an hour and a half
.
Nothing beyond a ball behind his centrals, but he would not even reach half a dozen.
Of course, no stops.
So tremendous was Spain that it turned off the usual bustle of a World Cup stadium, where the fans, minimal yesterday, encourage their own and the neutrals make a fuss.
As the neutrals here give the impression that they are not interested in a damn, because the stadium was silent after half an hour.
freedom of movement
Because the game, as such, lasted half an hour.
Spain, comfortable, confident in their idea, began to move the ball from one side to the other and exchange the positions of the top three.
Asensio started as a forward, with Ferran on the right and Olmo on the left, but
from then on they swarmed in all areas and this movement was indecipherable for the 'ticos', very academic in their 4-4-2 but completely lost
in their reality of a system as volatile as the one before them.
In the play for the first goal, Asensio, who started from the center, appeared on the left, and Olmo, who started from the left, appeared in the center, undetectable by a defense that, when they wanted to visualize
Pedri
's pass , it was too late .
Olmo's resolution, delicious.
Without changing the script at all, the carousel continued and there was a point in which the team enjoyed.
Relaxed after the goal, seeing Costa Rica's inability to fight,
the players enjoyed training with the public
.
Before that corkage there had already been two other options, and shortly after taking the lead, the second came in another billiards play.
Busquets, Alba, Asensio, pim, pam, pum, at the first touch, and the Madridista's shot was far away from a
crepuscular
Keylor .
Since that seemed a lot like a break, and
Jordi Alba
They put up the tent in the opposite field, they ended up giving him a penalty that Ferran converted, a boy who needs that confidence because with the ball at his feet he is the most failing of all by far.
In 30 minutes, then, Spain had resolved the always thorny debut and, from then on, all it did was pave the way for what was to come.
The goals fell by inertia, without the need to do anything special, and it was Luis Enrique reserving his most precious pieces, because the speech that the 26 can be starters is very good, but within those 26 there are also differences.
Pedri, Busquets
and Asensio didn't even play for an hour, Olmo continued on the field because he needed rhythm, Jordi Alba went to rest and Balde made his debut, and
Nico Williams
to protect Ferran, who left with two goals. ..
Despite all of this, Costa Rica, weighed down by the years, which bears no resemblance to that vigorous team of 2014, could not do anything other than see them coming and think that better times will come.
Not even a shot on goal can be presented on his service sheet.
Quite the opposite of Spain, owner of a walk.
A walk to start like never before.
There is a lot of World Cup left, sure, but also sure, very sure, that there is no better way to start it.
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