The Spanish team uncorked the bottle of good football and goals, as claimed Luis Enrique, and qualified for the round of 16 of the Euro 2020 with a resounding win against Slovakia (0-5), who was about to give him the first place in the group, which prevented a goal from Sweden to Poland in the discount (3-2), while in the Charterhouse the celebration of reconciliation of the selection with its public was celebrated. La Roja closed the first phase as second in Group E, which holds a confrontation against the Luka Modric's Croatia next monday in Copenhagen (Denmark).
Spain improved a lot with the changes of Luis Enrique -especially Busquets and Sarabia They were outstanding- and ended up having a feast and achieving the biggest win of the tournament, despite the fact that the hot afternoon started with a penalty missed by Morata and the girls fluttering on the eve of the night of San Juan.
It seemed like a thing of witches that the Spanish team no longer enjoyed an advantage on the scoreboard when at 25 'there was the first and necessary break for the hydration of the players, since their dominance against Slovakia it was absolute and, at times, even tyrannical. Spain was only worth the victory to go to the round of 16 without depending on anyone and went for it with faith and determination, with Busquets assuming the gallons of command in the wide zone and putting into the game a very intense rhythm that the Slovaks – in the sun would be around 40º – were unable to bear.
Despite the good game of Spain, who noticed the entry for good, -apart from Busquets, who was superb-, of Sarabia, Azpilicueta and Eric Garcia, doubts reappeared soon, since at 11 ' Morata wasted a new penaltyi -the fifth in a row that the selection fails- and Sarabia (18 '), Pedri (19') and Morata himself (23 ') missed very clear chances against Dubravka's goal, which fortunately for Hispanic interests would go from being the hero to the villain from Slovakia. In the 29 ' Pablo Sarabia He tried to finish from outside the area and his shot, after hitting the crossbar, made a balloon over the goal that the goalkeeper himself put inside when trying to clear it for a corner, with very bad luck, that for the first time in this Euro 2020 he was smiling at the Spanish selection.
The can was open and the classification for the second round was practically in the pocket, since Sweden beat Poland from minute 2, so even the draw could be worth, although more goals were needed to leave open the possibility of achieving the first place in the tournament. group if Poland tied are Sweden. And it was Laporte who made the 0-2 just before the break when connecting with a splendid header a good center of Gerard Moreno at the exit of a corner after a precipitous exit of the Slovakian goal.
With the two goals advantage he left Spain at the break and ten minutes after the restart let
Pablo Sarabia the crash seen for sentencinga, by splicing with precision a good low center by Jordi Alba from the left and making the score go up 0-3, which already left all the fish sold in Seville, since the only thing that could change the group's classification was the tie of Poland against Sweden, which would leave Spain first.
But in the Cartuja there was still a lot to see and as the shadow fell on the green, the goals for the national team that other days were denied also fell. This time everything turned out to be expensive. At the edge of game time Luis Enrique gave entry to Ferran torres by Morata -fired with a loud ovation- and the first thing the City winger did was score a beautiful high heel goal after an exquisite play by Pedri and Sarabia at the exit of a corner.
Shortly after, the one who entered was Pau Torres by Busquets -also strongly applauded- and the first thing he did was participate in the 0-5 at the exit of another corner, this time after a more messy action that ended with a new Slovak own goal, this time from Kucka. With the little hand and the last 3-2 of Poland, Spain is second in the group and will be measured on Monday at Croatia in
Copenhagen with high morale and good football recovered.
0 – Slovakia: Dubravka (1); Pekarik (1), Satka (1), Skriniar (1), Hubocan (2); Kucka (1), Hromada (2) (Lobotka, (2) m. 46); Haraslin (2) (Suslov, (1) m. 69), Hamsik (2) (Benes, (sc) m. 90), Mak (2) (Weiss, (2) m. 69) and Duda (2) ( Duris, (1) m. 46)
5 – Spain: Unai Simón (s.c.); Azpilicueta (3) (Oyarzabal, (2) m. 77), Eric Garcia (3) (Pau Torres, (3) m. 72), Laporte (3), Jordi Alba (3); Busquets (4) (Thiago, (3) m. 71); Koke (3), Pedri (3); Sarabia (4), Morata (2) (Ferran Torres, (3) m. 66) and Gerard Moreno (2) (Adama Traoré (2), m. 77)
Goals: 0-1, m. 30: Dubravka, own goal. 0-2, m. 45 '+ 3: Laporte. 0-3, m. 56: Sarabia. 0-4, m. 67: Ferran Torres. 0-5, m. 71: Kucka, own goal
Referee: Bjorn Kuipers (Netherlands). He admonished the Slovak Duda (d. 12).
Incidents: Match corresponding to the third and last day of Group E of Euro 2020, played at the La Cartuja stadium in Seville before about 12,580 spectators.