Recreation in San Siro

The Spain of the children went out to the playground San Siro like going to recess. And God lives that the selection of Luis Enrique was recreated before Italy which he defeated with authority, solvency and brilliance. Spectacular doublet of Ferran Torres in the first half and outstanding debut of the very young Gavi, the earliest in the history of the national team. The expulsion of Bonucci just before the break left the blue.

A Luis Enrique What happens to Pocholo: the march is going. It pours him out. It freaks him out. That the press is putting its hands to the head for summoning Gavi after two Hail Marys in the elite, as Gavi starts. As he has more shell than a pond turtle and is comfortable turning the press room into a minefield, to Fought He doesn’t give a damn what the journalists say.

The Spanish coach already warned him in the previous Italy-Spain this blank. “I don’t read to you because I know more about soccer than most.” The second is true and the first is a filthy lie. As much as journalistic opinions may seem trifling to you, Luis Enrique he reads it and hears it all. And he has made an X-ray of the who’s who of the reporters who follow the selection and those who speak and / or write about it.

The case, that I get entangled, is that Luis Enrique bet on an eleven against Italy that were Gavi and ten more. I list the eleven that we finished before: Unai Simon; Azpilicueta, Laporte, Pau Torres, Marcos Alonso; Busquets, Koke, Gavi; Oyarzabal, Sarabia and Ferran Torres. And with that line-up we measured Italy, the champion of Europe, the one that got us out of the Eurocup on penalties the day we played the best. They did not play with the usual ones either because Chiellini and an Italy without Chiellini It is less Italy.

The fact is that they struck 8:45 p.m. and he started the ball rolling in San Siro. We soon discovered that the positions of the top three in Spain were more changeable than those of Pedro Sanchez. Any of the three – Oyarzabal, Sarabia or Ferran – occupied the position of false nine.

Italy atosiga

The first occasion was for Italy after a stupid fumble of Gavi under the pressure of Emerson, who ate it in a flash. He stole the sandwich in the yard and attended church, whose shot below was repelled in distress by Unai Simón. It was the first warning, followed by two similar ones after losses of the Spanish team in their own field.

Italy it was in his sauce. They pressured, harassed, asphyxiated the Spanish team in midfield. Answered Spain with a couple of good deeds on our left wing. Marcos Alonso connected with Sarabia, who attended Oyarzabal on the penalty spot, but his shot hit an Italian defender.

The move spurred Spain, which found what the PSOE lacks: a coherent path on the left. There Marcos Alonso, who had started the game like a shot, met with Oyarzabal in the 16. The player of the Real society traced the band, raised his head and put it to the area so that Ferran Torres, who appeared ambushed from the second line, connected with the ball first and scored the 0-1.

A minute later we almost made the 0-2 in a sing of Donnarumma. At the half of PSG, whistled by San Siro from minute one, an easy shot by Oyarzabal slipped through his fingers. He saved that he had the post behind to avoid the 0-2.

Ferran strikes first

Italy accused the blow and stayed ten minutes sounded. He did not wake up until half an hour when Sticks he had a header at the near post off a corner, which narrowly went wide. Also in ’33 the Italians had it when Bernasdeschi looked for the short stick of Unai Simon, who put in a good hand to deflect the shot precisely to the post. A minute later Badge he forgave the 1-1 in a heads-up that he sent to the sky of Milan.

Spain had lost control of the game, despite the enormous physical display of the debutant Gavi, which was returning to Luis Enrique all the trust placed in their backs as a minor. Italy then decided to shoot themselves in the foot in the 40th minute when Bonucci, who was admonished, hit a treacherous elbow to Busquets in the nose of the referee, who had no choice but to show him the second and send him to the locker room.

Bonucci shoots himself in the foot

Italy paid dearly for the stupidity of Bonucci and Spain He did what they have done to us on other occasions: penalize them. It was in ’46, just on the edge of halftime. Again the play was born on the left in a good steal of the ball by Marcos Alonso. The side of the Chelsea leaned on Oyarzabal, which returned to measure the area so that there Ferran, this time with a head, made it 0-2 and almost passed Spain’s pass to the Nations League final.

The break was a blow to Italy and at the same time a relief. We returned from halftime with bad news for Spain: the injury of Ferran Torres. Luis Enrique made his debut for Yeremi Pino, who has started the season as a shot at Villarreal.

Spain he dedicated himself to playing the ball and dancing to Italy. It was like being in the schoolyard in the middle of recess. Gavi grew up, offered himself, asked for all the balls. It was liked. Italians chased shadows in the dark. Luis Enrique enjoyed because the bet had turned out well.

Spain fights Italy

The selection fought to Italy and the Italians charged. The last half hour of the game could be a closure for La Roja. The blue he could only hurt us in a losing counter like the one that ended church with a poisoned shot to the post. Good thing it was offside.

Oyarzabal had the 0-3 in his head after a great assist from Yeremi Pino. The shot of the great realist midfielder licked the right post of Donnarumma. Italy, lost and desperate, set about hitting and provoking. Luis Enrique put Mikel Merino and Bryan Gil on the field for Boil and Sarabia.

In 77 he had in his boots Marcos Alonso the 0-3 after a good counter. Donnarumma avoided it with a superb hand down. And then the football law was fulfilled: he who forgives, pays. And Spain paid it in a counter that we ate after a corner in favor. We retracted badly, Pau Torres made a rude mistake and Chiesa accelerated the counter until she was alone in the Spanish area. When he arrived, he put it on Pellegrini to make it 1-2.

San Siro vibrated. Italy exhibited its pride, willing to die on its feet no matter how much Spain had knelt them for many moments with their football. Selection of Luis Enrique He was not daunted by Italy’s last goal and regained control of the ball so that the final minutes were played near the goal area. Donnarumma.

In the end, mission accomplished. Victory of Spain in San Siro, the first in our history in an official match on Italian soil, and go to the final of this thing called UEFA Nations League. France or Belgium will wait for us there, although that will be another story. And we’ll tell you about it on Sunday. God willing.