It could not be. Spain will not be able to revalidate the European Under-21 that achieved the summer of 2019 in Italy Y Saint
Marine when falling by the minimum before Portugal (0-1), in a match in which the 'Red’He paid dearly for his lack of aim. An own goal of Jorge
Basin In 1980, he tipped the balance in favor of the Portuguese, who will face Countries
Low or Germany in the very final on Sunday (9:00 p.m.).
Lewis
from
the
Fountain, who had the opportunity to become the first coach in history to repeat the title consecutively, made up to four changes compared to the starting eleven that he served in the quarterfinals, entering the double-scorer Javi
Handful pointed, in addition to Oscar
Gil by the sanctioned Hugo
Guillamón, Captain Marc
Cucurella Y Gonzalo
Villar.
Brahim, the most active
In a first half in which both teams showed great mutual respect, it was Brahim
Diaz who, with his sparks, was closer to opening the scoreboard. Up to three times the goal was touched by the Malaga native, who will return this summer to the Real
Madrid after a season on loan at the AC
Milan.
TO From
the
Fountain he did not like what he saw and left Bryan
Gil in the changing rooms after the break, giving entrance to Juan
Miranda. And with the entry of Betico came the best minutes of the 'Red', Who had up to five clear chances to beat Diogo
Coast in the first 15 'of the restart. Cucurella ran into wood and Glenn
Nyberg did not indicate a clear maximum penalty of Diogo
Read on Brahim. As there was no VAR, the referee's decision could not be corrected.
Mazazo in minute 80
Rui
Jorge, aware of the Spanish superiority, gave entrance to Florentine and this gave balanced the center of the Portuguese field, totally surpassed in the first bars of the second half. The minutes passed and when the extension was already sensed, a center of Vitinha who was looking for Tiago
Thomas introduced it in his own goal Basin, surpassing above Alvaro
Fernandez. Bad luck for the footballer owned by the Villarreal, which made a magnificent European.
The Madrid central defender's own goal left the current European champion without reaction, who will continue to be tied at six titles with Italy as the team with the most European Under-21s.
0- Spain: Álvaro Fernández; Óscar Gil, Óscar Mingueza, Jorge Cuenca, Marc Cucurella; Martín Zubimendi, Gonzalo Villar (Abel Ruiz, m.81); Brahim Díaz (Yeremy Pino, m.65), Manu García (Oihan Sancet, m.76), Bryan Gil (Juan Miranda, m.46); Javi Puado.
1- Portugal: Diogo Costa; Diogo Dalot, Diogo Queirós; Diogo Leite, Abdu Conté; Daniel Bragança (Baró, m.65), Vitinha, Gedson Fernandes (Florentino Luís, m.51); Fábio Vieira (Pedro Pereira, m.90); Dany Mota (Tiago Tomas, m.65) and Rafael Leao (Jota, m.65).
Goals: 0-1, min.80: Jorge Cuenca at own goal.
Referee: Glenn Nyberg (SUE) admonished Brahim Díaz (m.57) by Spain and Rafael Leao (m.30) by Portugal.
Incidents: Under-21 European semi-final match played at the Ljudski vrt in Maribor (Slovenia) with a limited capacity of 1,600 spectators due to the coronavirus pandemic.