Criminals take the crown from Spain

In 2023, the fickle penalties gave Spain their first title of the Nations League in Róterdam, against Croatia, and two years later, in Munich, she grabbed the crown against Portugal, twice champion of the tournament. The Portuguese set of a complete success of eleven meters for the error of Morata, but especially to keep the offensive potential of the red, symbolized by Lamine Yamal, like nobody had done lately.

The game against the Portuguese combined was a different challenge than that of the semi -final against France, because the Roberto Martínez team has a more sensitive core of the game with the ball, such as Spain itself. In that struggle for the party’s control since possession, the red stepped forward and armed himself with patience to break a lock much more solvent than the Frenchman. In the final there was no room for pleasures and the Iberian game was soon described as a real tactical battle.

Without spaces it was Huijsen, with its large long displacement, which Nico’s uncontrolled, who was the arrival of Pedri without the Canary a glimpse to hit the shot on the door. De la Fuente continues to see the Barça midfielder as a midfielder with the capacity to step into the area and this first occasion justified this idea.

With Lamine Yamal very guarded, the left wing was the favorite option for Spain, which again warned with a thread from Nico Williams, very active start. Portugal tried to promote lines and double his pressure to shake the Spanish domain, but his plan ran in one of Lamine’s few flashes and the goal of Zubimendi, an unusual filmmaker who this time was practiced as the smartest in the class to take advantage of a ball that was rejected in the heart of the Portuguese area.

The script seemed to ask for Boca for Spain, but soon turned. Nuno Mendes, a stitch of the PSG champion of Europe, was also for Portugal in an action in which the track broke the rival rear and a shot to considerable, impossible for Unai Simon.

The draw saved the Seleção Das Quinas at a delicate moment, but did not prevent Spain preventing control of the meeting. Apart from the Portuguese danger in the counter, the European champion made the merit to go to the rest in favor, something that Pedri’s magic made in the last pass and the amplifier of Oyarzabal, who continues to thank the confidence that he gives the source based on goals.

Roberto Martínez covered the water route on the right with the entrance to Semedo and strengthened the power of the Portuguese field with Rúben Neves. His team seemed to step forward after a break, but Spain reduced the impetus of his rival on the basis of possession.

Nuno Mendes, Key

The storm seemed Cape when the overflow of Nuno Mendes and the trade of Cristiano Ronaldo, a pure auctioneer in this dicening phase of his career, produced the draw. Portuguese effectiveness, maximum of his occasions, threw a new final of only half an hour, in which Spain had difficulty finding his decisive men in attack.

Isco and Merino adopt the functions of Pedri and Fabián in the decisive part. Fresh legs to find the crack in the defensive framework of Portugal, who also gives nothing to Leao as Rivulsief. The Bético, who returned to the national team six years later, had the option of reversing Digo Costa in a distant shot with avoiding extension.

Portugal approached the extra time to triumph with the raids to the left of Nuno Mendes and Leao, a real headache because of his physical commitment. A very distant attempt by Pedro Porro was the biggest argument in Spain, without clarity of ideas. Nobody found the resolution of the game until the penalties appeared on the scene, who gave him the red grip that gave him two years ago.