A debutant on a senior team list, Marc Casadó jumped to warm up on the Parken Stadion sideline during the second half of the match. Spain was shining and dominating on the scoreboard. De la Fuente completed his third change, he only had two left, and the Barça player shared physical work with two other teammates. One was going to be left without playing. Suddenly, Zubimendi noticed some discomfort and the coach, allergic to risks, called Casadó. “I didn’t expect it,” the Blaugrana would later confess. From Sant Pere de Vilamajor to Copenhagen, the La Masia midfielder stepped onto the pitch in the 69th minute and completed the match with his non-negotiable intensity.
Casadó thus became the 19th. debutant under the umbrella of Luis de la Fuente, who continues to pull rabbits out of his hat as if his last name was Copperfield and he lived in Las Vegas. And since he won the Euro Cup in a more than brilliant way last July, the coach has had to live almost daily with bad news in the form of an injury, but he has always managed to get ahead. In fact, against Denmark they lost two other men, Zubimendi and Álex Baena, who were already playing replacing theoretical starters. From that final in Berlin just four months ago, only Cucurella, Laporte and Dani Olmo were in the Spanish eleven again on Friday.
With Casadó, 19 footballers have already debuted with De la Fuente and tomorrow four more could do so
But even so, this Spain manages to move forward and shine, having already qualified as first in the group for the quarterfinals of the Nations and, in turn, assured of a hypothetical play-off for the World Cup if needed. And with the one from Denmark there are now 20 consecutive official matches he has played. the red one without knowing defeat. Yes, that unfortunate match in Scotland, at the dawn of the De la Fuente era, remains the last match in which Spain has given up the three points. A streak that has not been free, but has been accompanied by good play and a very high degree of competitiveness, already amortized with two titles, the Nations and the Euro Cup, many of the merits mentioned that should be put on the coach’s plate.
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Until the next March break, when the Nations quarterfinals are played, Spain only has one match left, this Monday in Tenerife against Switzerland, inconsequential for both since the Swiss have already been eliminated. Hence, at the Heliodoro Rodríguez López De la Fuente he will give his team another twist and it is certain that even more new faces will be seen. To begin with, the injured Zubimendi and Álex Baena and the suspended Oyarzábal left the concentration, while the U-21 Pablo Barrios joined the group for the duel against Switzerland. Along with him, Mingueza, Samu Omorodión and Aitor Paredes could make their debut as full-fledged senior internationals and join the long list that Casadó expanded on Friday.
Spain has a thousand faces and in all of them it is smiling.
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