Badajoz does not admit stumbling – AS.com

“I am in high spirits.” The phrase is from Luis Enrique just 24 hours before the game that Spain and Georgia dispute today in Badajoz. A duel that, looking at the FIFA ranking of both teams and the history of football, it does not sound like a big party but it has acquired a tone as serious and serious as the voice of Francisco Umbral. Do you remember? The stumble before Greece at the start of the World Cup qualifying rounds and Thursday's hit at Sweden force to win to continue aspiring to the direct pass to Qatar 2022. Hence, we try to convince ourselves that Luis Enrique has the moral as he claims to have it and that this phrase infects a group of players who have before them their first major revalidation as a National Team.

“Together we are stronger”he said in turn Sergio Busquets at the press conference yesterday as a claim for the fans. There will be, and of the good, in the New Nursery of Badajoz, who does not witness a match of The Red since 2006, settled with 4-0 to Liechtenstein in the qualifying rounds for Euro 2008, where it all started. That encouragement of the 8,500 spectators allowed by the health restrictions due to COVID will be especially appreciated by the Barça player, very gray in Thursday's defeat in Solna. Again he will carry the handle next to Koke with the foreseeable binge of tiqui-taca against a Georgia that will bet on the counterattack. That seems to be the recipe for Willy Sagnol, whose network was about to cost us a serious problem in the match played in March in Tbilisi. So just one goal from Dani Olmo In the 92nd minute he allowed us to come back from Caucasian lands with the three points in his pocket. That is the only loot that we contemplate today. It is only worth winning and for the more goals the better with a view to calculators and possible tie-breaks when the qualifying rounds come to a close back in November.

For this it is essential to repair the shearings that Isak and Kulusevski they did in our defense four days ago. Eric Garcia suffered more than necessary, but Luis Enrique reiterated yesterday his full confidence in the Barça center-back, who could re-form a partnership with Laporte. The only clear thing is that the coach will not be able to repeat the trident that started in the Friends Arena, since Gerard Moreno was forced to leave the concentration of the absolute for discomfort in the right thigh. Sarabia seems like the natural replacement, with Morata and Ferran Torres as partners to try to open the Georgian can. In the middle of the field It will be necessary to see if the goal scored against Sweden keeps the doors of ownership open for Soler; in case of opting for greater thrust, maybe Marcos Llorente will have his chance in the New Nursery.

Georgia lands in Spain with a frown. Defeat at home to Kosovo (0-1) It has been a jug of cold water for those who insisted on seeing green shoots since Sagnol's arrival on the bench. It is no excuse, but it is true that the absence of Khvicha Kvaratskhelia is an extra advantage to the rival. The Rubin Kazan winger, who scored the goal with which the Georgians took the lead in the first leg against Spain, does not arrive on time to the game as he is still recovering from an injury. That part of casualties gets fatter with Saba Lobzhanidze and Otar Kiteishvili, while Georgiy Tsitaishvili is seen as the team's new offensive pearl. A block that with its 4-4-2, with those two lines very close together and almost made of concrete, will try to unhinge a Spanish team that must redirect the wrong course in these qualifying rounds as soon as possible. One takes to reviewing the other groups and, when seeing teams like the Netherlands or Germany second in the group, your whole body begins to itch. The word repechage must be kept in the drawer. I'd rather stick with the word victory. Tonight. There is no other.