SPAIN 4 – GEORGIA 0 (WORLDWIDE 2022) | Goleada 'made in Mestalla'

leaders. We are it with a borrowed suit, because Sweden has one point less but two games still to be played to equalize us, but the really important thing in Badajoz was to add three points that after the setback in Sweden became mandatory. Spain reacted to the pressure, played well and cemented the win at Mestalla, home of Gayà, Soler and Ferran Torres, authors of the first three goals. Kosovo awaits next Wednesday in Pristina, but that will be another story. Let's shout each goal in due time.

Luis Enrique's revolution could not have gone better. Up to five changes presented the eleven that jumped to the New Nursery compared to the one that fell last Thursday in Solna. One of them, Marcos Llorente, had the task of surprising from the second row before the foreseeable traffic jam designed by Willy Sagnol. Soler, who made his debut against Sweden and scored, was the other spring with which to shake the populated Georgian defense. Gayà, Rodri, Sarabia and Abel Ruiz completed this news reporter. In the case of the latter, in Badajoz he made his debut with the senior team, one more link in that chain of international appearances that the now Sporting de Braga striker has covered from the lower categories.

Georgia, meanwhile, fulfilled what was expected from the first minute. Sagnol also made five changes from their home loss to Kosovo. The absence of Kvaratskhelia, who scored the goal against Spain in the first leg, left the team orphaned in attack. And even more with the tatting from Sagnol (how much the mythical basketball coach Antonio Díaz-Miguel liked that word …), who played at being more revolutionary than Luis Enrique and chose to place Dinamo Batumi's midfielder Giorgi Zaria as a center forward.

El Nuevo Vivero only had one band, the left, or so it seemed because of Gayà's constant coming and going for it, who had the invaluable help of his partner in Valencia Soler. The first attacks of La Roja carried that stamp che, although all the centers were well resolved by the Georgian defense, who exercised pinball, with the balls bouncing until they fell back into the boots of Rodri or Llorente. And start over.

Zaria was dedicated to running from side to side, that was the windshield with which Sagnol tried to block the creation of the Spanish game. Kankava, another of the support pillars of the Caucasian team, attended the match as a spectator. Georgia shook water until in the 14th minute, the 14th goal came. After a corner kick, the ball was left free for Gayà's left-handed player, who did not think twice. His shot was centered, but it touched Kashia enough to turn Loria into a pillar of salt. That was the pill we needed to calm us down, an early goal that would allow us to play with the current from then on. It happened, because Spain maintained the same offensive predisposition, with Llorente increasingly taking center stage on the right wing. One of those internships concluded with a low back pass that Soler finished off on goal. The Mestalla connection (Gayà-Soler) put a signature at 2-0 when it had barely reached minute 25 of the game.

The cameras captured Luis Enrique and his gesture was unmistakable. Things were going as he had imagined, the five changes provided the bellows that La Roja required in this hat-trick of matches to be played in just seven days. The substitutions of Busquets and Koke, without going any further, are justified in next Wednesday's match against Kosovo. A game with crumbs. The 2-0 encouraged to put one more march to the game and the smile became from ear to ear when at the end of the break a new assist from Llorente was converted into a goal by Ferran.

It was the judgment and the capitulation of the Georgians, who did a lot to treat Spain in the first leg but in Badajoz they saw how the game faithfully reflected what the FIFA ranking says: 91st place by the 7th that the Spanish National Team occupies. From there to the end, sew and sing for Luis Enrique's team, who at halftime decided to put Albiol in place of Laporte, turned into the partner of Eric Garcia, whom the coach did not hesitate to fill with confidence after the doubts and criticism aroused. for the loss to Sweden. The final stretch left as outstanding notes the fourth goal, the work of Sarabia, who continues to grow in La Roja, and the international debut of Robert Sánchez, the 25th player to make his absolute debut with Luis Enrique on the bench. Two more hands to push this project that has no other destination than the World Cup in Qatar. On Wednesday, in Kosovo, a new stage.