2023-11-16 19:57:13
Luis de la Fuente warned that Spain would come out “with a bang” and the team responded to the coach’s announcement. There was no better proof than a goal from Lamine Yamal after five minutes to certify that the team was taking the duel seriously, already classified, and only pending to secure first place (and seeded status in the draw for the final phase) against Cyprus and Georgia, a gift.
Lamine Yamal’s goal had the virtue of finishing the job early, avoiding unnecessary delays and making Cyprus self-conscious, who as soon as they appeared had nothing to defend. Not even the starting point. He did not leave the cave for fear of the elements and because there were some guys in red outside who set up an insurmountable fence. At half an hour, with the burst boilers, and they stayed like that for the next hour, melted, Spain won 0-3 and had hit the post with a shot.
Lamine Yamal has scored two goals in three games for Spain, and has only scored one in 17 appearances for Barça.
The father and the son
Lamine Yamal scored with the first shot, a great goal in which he left the goalkeeper and a defender sitting on the ground with a break that opened a hole in the goal. The youth’s success with that goal (two in three games with the national team) could have stung the culé, who has only been able to applaud one goal in 17 games dressed as a Barça player. Beyond the play, the Moroccan player could be seen intervening much more than in Barça because the ball that Jesús Navas gave him, captain by age. More than double (37 years) that of his son Lamine Yamal (16).
Grimaldo was the only debutant in the Spanish eleven, defended between the sticks by David Raya in his second match, but Rodrigo Riquelme, the second, soon entered. Before the break, instead of Oyarzabal, he went all out for a piece of candy from Joselu and broke. Imanol Alguacil must have been very amused. At that moment, the other club coaches proceeded to raise their prayers so as not to suffer a loss like that of the royalist victim and the Cypriot potato.
Grimaldo was the only starting debutant, but before the break Riquelme came on and then Aleix.
Two out of Real
Michel joined that chorus of prayers when he saw Aleix Garcia, his coxswain of Girona, ready to debut at the beginning of the second half. De la Fuente replaced two Real players (Le Normand and Merino), lest he be banned from entering San Sebastián in the future, and brought on Aleix and his brother named David García, the Osasuna centre-back.
The debutants had to keep the gas on with the flame of enthusiasm of the first-timer, but between the result, the state of the field and the pride of the Hypriots and the mishap in Oyarzabal invited them to hide their leg. Spain remained diligent, capable of defending with seven men an attempted local counterattack with only two troops. It happened after Pileas caught Carvajal asleep in an excellent pass from Charalampous.
Datasheet
Cyprus: Mall (4); Andreou (4), Karo (4), Gogic (4), Lafis (5), Ioannou (4); Kyriakou (4); Kyprianou (5), Kastanos (5), Correia (4); Pittas (5).
Coach: Temur Ketsbaia (4).
Cambios: Spoljaric (5) por Kyprianou (m. 46); Pileas (7) por Correia (m. 46); Charalampous (7) por Kyriakou (m. 46); Kakoullis (5) por Pittas (m. 60); Kousoulos (6) por Karo (m. 66).
Spain: Raya (6); Navas (7), Le Normand (5), Pau Torres (6), Grimaldo (6); Gavi (7), Zubimendi (6), Merino (6); Lamine Yamal (8), Joselu (7); Oyarzabal (7).
Coach: Luis de la Fuente (7).
Changes: Riquelme (6) for Oyarzabal (m. 40); David García (6) for Le Normand (d. 46); Aleix (6) for Merino (d. 46); Carvajal (4) for Navas (d. 66); Ferran (sc) by Lamine Yamal (d. 73).
Goals: 0-1 (m. 5), Lamine Yamal; 0-2 (m. 22), Oyarzabal; 0-3 (m. 28), Joselu; 1-3 (m. 75), Pileas.
Referee: Mikola Balakin (6), Ukrainian.
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Cards: Correia, Karo, Kousoulos, Riquelme, Spoljaric.
Estadio: Alphamega (Limassol).
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