The Selection of Luis Enrique showed that it is very worked in all the phases and moments of the game. The fight was as the canons send. He only failed to place the bull and with the sword. An error that a National Team that aspires to be champion must not make and must correct.
Position soccer. In the offensive phase, Spain proposed its combinatorial football. The objective was to carry out a rapid circulation to try to dismantle the Greek defensive framework. To do this, the ball was moved from one band to another seeking to surprise in the tilts. Luis Enrique's positional system aims for the wingers to open the field and wait in their zone for the ball to reach them without losing that place. And the ball came to Ferran Y Elm, but they lacked overflowing, trying more one against one, as well as doing two for one, or three standing on the wing, with the offensive triangle formed on each wing by the side, the inside and the end.
Success of pressure. In the defensive phase, Spain was recognizable in its proposal to recover the ball. He successfully performed the pressure after loss. And the pressure was very mechanized in high block the beginning in short of the Greeks. Morata and Ferrán jumped to the centrals, while to the sides they went Marcos Llorente on the right and Dani Olmo on the left, fixing Koke and Canales to the interiors. Koke also had the mission to jump to the goalkeeper.
Conditional part. Physical condition was not a handicap for the Spaniards because when you press in a high block you defend forward and achieve success in the goal of recovering the ball and start the defense-attack transition, you travel fewer meters than if pressing does not succeed and you have to run towards back in fold.
Vagueness. The goal that the coach marks after the pressure after loss is to mount a fast attack and stand in the fewest possible touches in the rival area and finish. That action that went so well against Germany was not successful against Greece. They did manage to steal the ball, but they were imprecise when it came to passing the ball. Gifted players lacked technical finesse in this regard.
No overflow. To get over a defense as closed as that of Greece, although it was not a catenaccio 1-6-3-1, it was a 1-4-5-1, which closed on the inside and defended with help on the wings, and they wanted to go out on the counterattack, you have to open the game to the wings, make orientation changes in short and long with speed, so that it reaches the extreme and this faces and overflows . Ferran was very good in the pressure, in the defensive transition, but he was not fine in dribbling.
Attract and divide. The other variant is to attract and divide with a two for one between the end and the interior and then one or the other attack the generated space. Canales and Olmo did it on several occasionsBut it also lacked touch and controls in tight spaces, something they don't often fail at. It is in this aspect where Luis Enrique will emphasize and mount tasks to improve rapid attacks in confined spaces., the tickets per band and the completion of the plays with a shot between the three suits.
Tight spaces. Spain generated very few occasions for what it habituates and for which it must generate after a possession of 80%. That is the main aspect to improve and in which it will put the focus Luis Enrique, which must look for more variants to overcome closed defenses. He must look for new doubling of positions with which to surprise the rival and cause spaces to be generated, counteracting the rival's objective of reducing them.
Alternation in the game. The style of Luis Enrique it is non-negotiable, but it is not dogmatic. But he could seek more alternation in the game and give the ball to the rival at some point in the game to generate spaces behind the centrals and mount a counterattack. Sure that the technical body of the Selection will look for variants so that an accident like that of Granada against Greece does not happen again in the first qualifying game for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.