Last Friday, after 12:30 in the morning, From the source cleared the first question of the round in which he offered the call for the Scotland and Norway matches, warning: “The prelist does not exclude those who are not there. It would be much easier to put 300 players on the pre-list. There are many very good players. I’m not going to talk about those who are not there. Unfortunately, there are some who have to be left out. I encourage you to continue working to be here.”
Bryan Zaragoza, the last to join
Probably, when I said this I did not have in mind Bryan Zaragoza, the Granada winger from Malaga who had scored three goals at the start of the day. But at 10:30 p.m. on Sunday, after the absence of Villarreal winger Yéremy Pino was confirmed, the player from Haro surrendered to the game he had just watched with the young forward. against a Barcelona that he destroyed with his street audacity.
After scoring 15 seconds in, he left Koundé, one of the best centre-backs in LaLiga, spinning like a top, to score his second goal against Ter Stegen with the outside. square football. It is not surprising that midway through the second half Ronald Araujo told him half jokingly: “You bastard, don’t run anymore.”
He continued running and was about to score the third, but the post saved Barça. At the end of the match, after being voted best player of the match, he left his mark on the microphones: “I play football for this, not to run after the ball. This is what I have learned on the street.”
Which forwards have played for Spain?
This 1.64 winger who started playing for Tiro Pichón and CD Conejito, both from Málaga, tried out for Valladolid and Betis, where he was rejected because there was no room in the residence, and ended up joining the youth team. of Granada. And Bryan is the 18th forward that Luis de la Fuente has called up since he became senior coach.
Álvaro Morata, Marco Asensio, Joselu, Rodrigo Moreno, Nico Williams, Dani Olmo, Yeremy Pino, Ansu Fati, Sergio Canales, Bryan Gil, Ferran Torres, Mikel Oyarzabal, Iago Aspas, Gerard Moreno, Abel Ruiz, Lamine Yamal, Borja Iglesias, Bryan Zaragoza… Players of all possible profiles for an attack in which Haro’s seeks verticality and arrival.
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Area forwards such as Álvaro Morata, Joselu, Gerard Moreno, Borja Iglesias or Abel Ruiz. Fake nines with a goal and a lot of associative power capable of giving the last pass like Iago Aspas, Mikel Oyarzabal, Sergio Canales. Second strikers arriving with a lot of punch were Rodrigo Moreno, Dani Olmo, Ansu Fati, Ferran Torres and Marco Asensio.
Or shameless wingers who unbalance coming from outside like Nico Williams, Bryan Gil, Lamine Yamal or Bryan Zaragoza. Footballers of diverse natures who have the goal between their eyebrows and give the coach alternatives to form an attack in 4-2-3-1, their usual formation, 4-4-2 or 4-3-3.
Up to 18 goals and Joselu ‘top scorer’
No line has had as much movement as the forward line, where Joselu is the top scorer in the six games of the De la Fuente era. Of the 18 goals, Joselu has scored four, Morata three, Dani Olmo and Ferran Torres add two, and with one appear Yeremi Pino, Nico Willians, Lamine, Gavi, Merino, Baena and Kverkverlia, in an own goal.
De la Fuente has always boasted of being a versatile coach who is not a prisoner of one game idea, even if you have your clear preference. And just as he does not limit himself to a tactical drawing, he does not limit himself to a certain profile of an attacking player.
The Riojan is sensitive to footballers who are experiencing their ‘momentum’ and it seems that Bryan Zaragoza is going through that phase. This has caused the coach to call up the Granada winger, who can be a good tool to overcome the obstacle that Scotland will pose in La Cartuja this Thursday (9:00 p.m.).
2023-10-10 16:17:14
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