Flat, aimless, without another march, lost… This is how the Spanish team was during their visit to the Romareda. Things must change a lot in this month that remains before the World Cup if Luis Enrique’s men want to have any chance of making a good championship.
Spain did not dominate. When your main hallmark is dominance of the game, if you can’t make your rival uncomfortable, it’s because the one who is being dominated is you. Possession of the ball is one of the most important things in football, but as long as it has a meaning, an objective, an intention… What’s the use of having the ball if you don’t comply with those guidelines? The closest thing we have been able to see to that has been Quique Setién’s Betis, a team that dominated the games playing in their field…
The feeling that Spain left behind was that of being a very weak team and very fragile when it came to defending. And a team without gunpowder and without ideas when attacking; and much blame for this was the position of Marco Asensio. The Balearic played outside his demarcation and the experiment did not go well for obvious reasons. Marco has to go down a lot to be able to turn with the ball. Receiving in a danger zone and being able to turn is today an impossible mission for him, he has never shone playing with reduced spaces. Another of the players who did not appear was Busquets. He had Sow on his hump throughout the match. He was able to appear in the ball exit, but his participation in attack was nil.
Spain received the first and could have received the second before the break, but fortune was on their side. Jordi Alba leveled the scoreboard after a very good play where he came up by surprise and crossed the ball to make Sommer’s dive impossible, but only two minutes later, the second jug of cold water fell on Spain. Once again, Switzerland took advantage of the set piece from the corner to make the difference. In the first it was Akanji who headed it and in the second he was the one who prolonged it at the near post for Embolo to push it. Spain does not leave a good feeling and will have to face Portugal next Tuesday, who has just scored four goals against the Czech Republic. It was possibly the worst game of the second era of Luis Enrique.
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