Space It also loses. “But losing like this hurts more,” he summarized Oyarzabal. The truth is that they are not accustomed in the last two years. Portugal endorsed the second defeat of the era Of the source From the penalty spot and could not revalidate his champion title of the Nations League. After 20 victories and four draws since March 20, 2023, the batch became elusive. He had it face just a few months against the Netherlands, with a Unai Simon star that, this time it did not appear, and condemned the ruling of Álvaro Morata in the fourth penalty.
Impossible not to think about why he was designated and in that also fourth penalty that stopped him Givenong In Wembley to move Spain away from the final of the Euro 2020. “He knows me badly for my classmates, although it is part of football and life. I have not thrown it well, I could have done better. But just as I had to lift the Eurocup, and now I have to go annoyed. If I return to the September call? There is nothing sure there is nothing. It is a possibility that is not in September“He explained.
No look went to the captain, despite the fact that his last two launches has failed them. “Nothing to reproach Morata. He has given the team much more than us, “he admitted Bright. Along the same lines, Oyarzabal: “Everyone loves him, values and supports him. For us it is an important piece, which makes a lot of costumes.”
Was Luis de la Fuente who wanted to take responsibility for the ruling because he designated it. “They have been launches of the very high level and Álvaro has hit the side. Well, you have to throw them out. Álvaro is a champion, a reference, and I’m very sorry that he has failed. I have told him to throw him and the responsible is me,” he insisted.
Fortune smiled at the whole Roberto Martínezthat came with a bittersweet aftertaste of the two that had to play in the Eurocup. In view of Slovenia In the eigh they were expensive because Diogo Costa He stopped the three releases and gave no option. Could not repeat effectiveness with France In the rooms, but before Morata he reappeared.
The selection seemed that this last resort for the League of Nations was always reserved. From that match against Croatia which culminated with cold blood launch of Carvajalhe had avoided it until last March, when in Mestalla he eliminated the Dutch.
In Munich, he could not close the victory in the 120 minutes of play because the Portuguese closed all the roads. “It has been a party from you to you, because they are similar to us, with very good individualities. The game has been in the details“Zubimendi analyzed, who saw the team” Plane in the second part. “
“Energy” is what the coach sought by taking Lamine Yamal from the field. “We needed control, but also arrived and stuck. We needed to reactivate the bands with Baena and Yeremy Pino,” said the Rioja, whom all the Portuguese told him that they were “the best selection they had faced.”
The message from tonight has already heard the costume of his coach’s mouth. “From now on, the World Cup is the goal and, if we follow this path, I think we will go far,” he said.
The defeat leaves no doubt: “Now it hurts and it is difficult to get something positive, but you have to value the three consecutive finals we carry. We believe in this team for what is coming“Zubimendi certified.
Water scorer
It didn’t even have Spain Oyarzabal In the field, a strategic piece for the source in the attack and that has an idyll with the finals. Want or lose Spain, the Basque is the protagonist. If before France he attended Nico Williams already Merino For the first two goals, in the final it was a headache for Gonçalo Inácio y RUBEN DIAS. The Donostiarra is able to descend from the area and generate spaces to Pedrito attend Lamine and Nico in the bands or appear to hunt their centers. At times, it becomes undetectable. But he is skilled in the back game and wins in that melee with the plants. He tried it Konatous And also Inacio, who won a ball that ended Zubimendi’s goal, the second as an international.
He tied the excellent Nuno Mendesbut Oyarzabal appeared again to pick up a Pedri pass and, to the race and with a touch, beat Inacio already Diogo Costa. It was his Tenth goal with Spainwhich makes it the top scorer of Luis de la Fuente and lengthens his myth of man who always appears in the finals.
He scored the only goal in Spain in the 2021 Nations final against France (1-2), the 2023 was lost because a crusade injury separated him from the entire classification phase and returned to the team to score the goal of the victory in the last Eurocup before England. Even in the Tokyo games He left his scoring brand in the 3-1 that gave Brazil gold. Portugal Front, again in a final of the League of Nations, also marked, but tied Cristiano And I was no longer in the field when the releases arrived from eleven meters.
From the stands he saw the final the man who is on the third step of the top scorers of Spain, Fernando Torreswhich marked 38 in 110 and, for the moment, maintains the advantage of one over Álvaro Morata. In the box he could hug with Jesús NavasAmbassador of the final next to the former Real Madrid Central Pepe. Both were winners of the Nations League that yesterday raised Portugal again, as in 2019.
Luis Figo and José Mourinho lived from the stands. The presence of the coach unleashed rumors about the confidence of the Portuguese Federation in Roberto Martínez. The change in the presidency, which the former collegiate has reached Pedro Proençafeeds the feeling that Spanish, with a contract until 2026, is being examined. In his favor, the hug that Cristiano Ronaldo gave him at the end of the game and the first title that Portugal has since 2019.
The death of an amateur
The lucuitous note of the final was put by the death of an amateur who, at the edge of the rest of the extension, It fell from the stands to the area of the low press gallery. Although UEFA has not confirmed this death, in circumstances that are investigated, it was Luis de la Fuente who gave him official when he transmit his condolences at the press conference to the deceased’s relatives.
Age and nationality, as well as the causes in which death occurred, are about to be confirmed but at no time there was any communication that the party could be paralyzed.
He only caught the delay of the UEFA leaders, and the federative presidents, in accessing the grass at the trophy delivery ceremony, which had the teams waiting on the grass for more minutes than usual.