Ramos and Ansu have a star

If Luis Enrique greets Mauro Tassotti in a gesture that enhances football and Ansu Fati leaves the title, it is that the afternoon / night promises. It was a good omen and it was fulfilled, because what came after was nothing more than the best way to close a Sunday that had already made us so happy Carlos Sainz. Spain thrashed, Ramos added new notches in his brilliant record and Ansu Fati reminded us that football is one of those who have fun playing it. It was his first game as a starter and he scored a goal with which he broke a record in force in the Spanish National Team for 95 years. “Living quickly,” Alejandro Sanz sang. Well that.

The truth is that Ansu Fati hardly let us even sit on the couch. At minute and twenty seconds, the azulgrana receives next to the lime, dribbles to Tymchyk and starts a race towards goal, faces Kryvtsov with two feints and in the last, touching it with the heel, leaves the rival composed and without a girlfriend. Penalty. Final. In a minute and twenty seconds the price of the ticket was already amortized … if there had been an opportunity to buy a ticket. Also there, COVID kicks us.

The penalty was transformed by Sergio Ramos, who else, in a sort of semi Panenka that Pyatov was about to stop. It was the earliest penalty in the 704 matches that the Spanish National Team has played throughout history, which gives the opportunity to the defender (or whatever) of Camas to appear in a new chapter in the book of records of La Roja.

The goal did not intimidate Ukraine, except perhaps Tymchyk and Kryvtsov, which is logical that they were still circling that kite that a couple of minutes earlier had zigzagged between their legs in the form of Ansu Fati. Kharatin, who formed in the middle instead of Stepanenko (starter against Switzerland), escorted Zinchenko, called to be the key with which to open the Spanish defense. But La Roja aborted that flow of play. Without balls for Yaremchuk and Yarmolenko, much of the Ukrainian danger was off. In reality, the Spanish pressure began much higher, with Olmo, Gerard Moreno and Ansu drowning the ball out of the centrals.

Little by little Luis Enrique's pieces fit together. And it wasn't easy. The decision of the Asturian to try until he hits the key is to be applauded. If you have designed a call like this, groundbreaking, with so much new face and hunger to do good football, it is logical that you move players from one game to another. Yesterday he lined up up to six novelties with respect to the team that drew on Thursday in Germany. If there is so much wardrobe, it will be necessary to show it off … There is a second reading of that remodeling, which says that the coach is forced to make so many changes due to the height of the season in which we find ourselves and the atypical of combining football with that COVID that for a few months is the worst rival to face.

Reguilón made his debut with La Roja to the detriment of the striker Gayà. Merino and Rodri joined the midfield and above, on Sunday he had given us an unprecedented forward: Dani Olmo, Gerard Moreno and Ansu Fati. All three worked well, associated in pressure and combinative with the team's second offensive line. In this way the party was having only one voice, that of Spain. And also a single head. Just as Shevchenko was gesturing in unmistakable discontent, Ramos headed an Olmo cross on goal. It was his double and to the greater joy of Luis Enrique and all those who are part of his project, the fruit of the strategy and of all those meetings before the blackboard and the video. There was also another brushstroke of those with which Ramos leaves you speechless: he became the eighth top scorer (23) in the history of the National Team, equaling a certain … Alfredo Di Stéfano. I said, it goes to record by tattoo.

The 2-0 hurt Ukraine. Shevchenko shook his head and even more so four minutes later, when Ansu Fati beat Pyatov again with a right hand from the edge of the area. Gol and much more than that. A bite to history, because with that goal the Barcelona player became the youngest player to score with Spain. At 17 years and 311 days, he broke a record that went back 95 years: since Juan Errazquin scored in 1925 against Switzerland at 18 years and 344 days.

The result was already announced and we had to wait until minute 40 to attend Ukraine's first shot on goal. Mykhaylichenko was its author, a left-footed shot that stopped De Gea in two times, again starting. It was a way of saving honor, but little else. The result was sung and the second part was a mere formality ended with good news and bad news: the goal from Ferran Torres, who had come in to replace Gerard Moreno. The night closed with the leadership of Spain in the Nations League and a 17-year-old boy leaving the Valdebebas grass with the face of having had a great time. Like everyone.