The Spanish team faces a crucial week in its qualification aspirations for the 2024 Euro Cup. La Roja is measured at Scotland, on Thursday in Seville, and Norway, on Sunday in Oslo, with the aim of certifying their qualification for the tournament against the direct rivals with whom they play the two first places in the group that give the direct ticket to Germany.
Spain occupies second position in Group Awith 9 points, with Scotland as the leader with 15 and Norway in third place with 7, but La Roja has one game less compared to these teams. With two victories, classification would be assured. In any case, there would be the November window with the matches against Cyprus (Nicosia) and Georgia (Valladolid) to close the pass.
Bryan Zaragoza and Ansu Fati join Luis de la Fuente’s Praetorian Guard
The team was supposed to gather this Monday in La Rozas with 25 players, one more than the 24 initially called up, but Lamine Yamal did not join at noonas planned since he was undergoing medical tests in Barcelona.
Lamine’s setback was added to that of Yéremi Pino. De la Fuente chose to opt for Ansu Fati as the first replacement when Yérermi was injured. At Brighton he has not yet managed to establish himself, but his good performance and attitude in the UEFA Nations League were his guarantee for being recalled.
Bryan Effect
Granada-Barça on Sunday further altered the team’s plansr. Lamine Yamal ended up hit and, as a precaution, De la Fuente called Bryan Zaragozawho dazzled with a double and a spectacular game against the Blaugranas.
Bryan was not on Luis de la Fuente’s prelist of 49 players, but this relationship is not binding. It is just a formality of courtesy towards the clubs so that they know in advance the possible players who could lose during the international break.
✨ These moments are always wonderful.
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De la Fuente has finally composed a list with a lot of goals and unbalance power. Two factors that, for example, were missed at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. This selection has many different nuances to play with. The experiments with false ‘nines’ are over and the coach is putting all his effort into the game.
More aim than rivals
In attack, the four most area-specific players They have 27 goals this season: Morata (10 goals: 5 in the League, 2 in the Champions League and 3 with the national team), Ferran Torres (6 goals: 3 in the League, 1 in the Champions League and 2 with the national team), Joselu (6 goals: 5 in the League and 1 with the national team) and Oyarzabal (5 goals, 4 in the League and 1 in the Champions League).
The difference with its rivals is abysmal. Among the four forwards of Scotland have 8 goals: Ché Adams (3), Jacob Brown (1), Ryan Chrisite (1), Lyndon Dakes (1) y Kevin Nisbet (2). In reality, the Scots’ main scoring danger is the midfielder McTominay, from Manchester United, with 6 goals in the qualifying phase of the Euro Cup, two of them against Spain, and on the last day he scored a double with the Red Devils.
For its part, Norway has the great threat of Haaland, but the City player has not scored in three games, although accumulates 9 goals this campaign, Sorloth (Villarreal) and Larsen (Celta) They follow with 5 and 3 points respectively, to which we must add Fine’s only one (Brann). A total of 18 goals, 9 less than Spain’s strikers.
Imbalance
Besides, La Roja adds great power to unbalance its extremes. In attempted dribbles, the most specific wing players total 110 in LaLiga cwith Bryan Zaragoza in the lead (56), followed by Nico Williams (34) and Lamine Yamal (20). Therefore, Lamine’s physical problems reduce the team’s dribbling power.
Of these attempts, 59 have been completed successfully: Bryan has completed 28, Nico has achieved 16 and Lamine has left 15 times. The Blaugrana’s discomfort could lead to Bryan Zaragoza went from not being on the list to even having minutes. Something that happened in the last window when Yéremi Pino and Ferran Torres joined urgently and played against Cyprus.
Therefore, De la Fuente has plenty of offensive arguments for Spain to be a team with a lot of firepower, imagination and overflow.
2023-10-09 17:07:12
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