Adama Traoré was the best news of the game that La Roja played this Tuesday against Ukraine, in Kiev. The Catalan winger of Wolverhampton put the salt in a duel that without being insipid, it was lacking in the goals of the Red. And that Traoré got tired of serving poisoned centers after hitting one and the other once on the right wing, displaying his tremendous power and leaving the Ukrainians he ran into sitting in his wake.
Adama ended up injured, but even with his ankle touched he took a sprint and put several golden balls in the final stretch. And he played the 90 minutes, being until the end a nightmare for his band.
Spain went from more to less but without a doubt, he deserved to leave Kiev with a goal in his locker. But this Tuesday La Roja threw too much in foul to the injured Gerard Moreno, maybe also to Iago Aspas and why not? to Raúl de Tomás.
A decisive 'killer' was missed and it wasn't because Luis Enrique do not put gunpowder in his eleven, quite the contrary, because the selector changed up to four of the six attack players. They got to participate up to ten offensive profile players at the Olympic in Kiev.
But today the forwards of La Roja despite having a carousel Sometimes, they did not know how to define, they lacked success in the final meters, they lacked ‘biting’, hitting. Although a lot, a lot to blame for the team leaving without scoring the Ukraine goalkeeper Bushchan had it, an 'octopus' that ruined up to four clear chances of the players of Luis Enrique and 20 shots de la Roja between the three suits, which is said soon.
But the ball this Tuesday did not want to enter, the goal was divorced from the Red, condemned for the lack of punch.
A lethal counter
Spain was better in the first half, losing steam in the second. But if it was worrying not having known how to translate the occasions generated by the men of ‘Lucho', Perhaps it was more worrying that with little, they gave Spain a' break '.
A 'counter' in a book that left part of the defense and the goalkeeper portrayed David De Gea, with little work today and when it arrived, he was not very lucky in his decision.
The 15,000 spectators who gathered in the stands of the Kiev stadium they made themselves heard, pressed (it was strange but it was very exciting in these times of pandemic) exploding at the end of the duel for the unexpected triumph of Shevchenko's.
Tassotti and Lucho
Precisely, the second of 'Sheva ', Mauro Tassotti was reunited with Luis Enrique, 26 years after the famous elbow of the Italian in the 1994 World Cup that broke the Asturian's nose. Today everything is forgotten.