Since Luis Enrique took over, Spain has gone from skeptical to extremely talented, and has completely escaped the hell of the '18 World Cup to complete its rebirth. After last year's UEFA Europa League quarterfinals, Enrique has transformed a skeptical team into a Spain that is at the peak of its spirit and form, and has even been labeled by the media as the favorites to win the tournament. The credit for Spain's success must go to the former Barcelona player.
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Despite the constant criticism of Enrique's scheduling, it is also with his boldness in his use of personnel that young players like Gavi, Pedri, Eric García and Unai Simón have been able to slowly grow into real stars in the starting lineup. Incredible tactical intelligence, smart running and making Spain a typically impressive passing team.
However, Spain has been relatively unthreatening in front of goal lately, and they have not been able to convert their absolute possession into offense. With the same group of European giants, Germany, Japan, and Costa Rica, who have been consistently entering the World Cup in recent years, Spain will have to consolidate their front line and find the best solution to attack their defense.
Many people wondered why Enrique didn't pick the familiar goalkeeper de Gea, but in fact, Enrique's tactical system requires a goalkeeper with good passing ability, so they used this World Cup to completely change their team (recently, they also told de Gea that he might not have the chance to be selected in the future), and it doesn't seem that surprising that they didn't pick de Gea. The three who made the team this time around are all in the same category. The three selected this time all have good passing and controlling abilities, and are indeed quite suitable for Enrique's system.
After last year's European Cup, Spain slowly completed the team's blood change, the golden generation of goalkeeper de Gea gradually retired, Simón's rise to the top has become the focus of many fans' discussion.
No one thought Simón would be able to get on the pitch so quickly, but with good passing footwork and a pass success rate of 90%, Spain not only has two center backs who can guide passes, but the goalkeeper can also be the final attacking point of the team.
In addition, Simón has the ability to react quickly to save long passes, crosses and close-range shots. Unfortunately, Simón's creamy hands are a problem, as he sometimes makes mistakes that don't make sense, such as Pedri's return pass in last year's European Championships, which was caused by Simón's lack of concentration and resulted in an oolong, which is a small problem that the Spanish defenders have to help Simón with.
But the flaws are all quite impressive and Simón will continue to hold down the Spanish fort this year.
David Raya's long passes have a 43% success rate, and he is a good starting point for early attacks. With an average of 4 saves per game, a success rate of 76.3%, and an ability to stop 8.1% of crosses, David Raya is definitely a good candidate for the No.3 goalkeeper in Spain.
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The main goalkeeper of the team, Sánchez used his passing ability to create many offensive opportunities, especially in the face of long passes to prepare for most of the games with a success rate of more than 50%, not only in the professional team, but also in Spain there is also a very good offensive ability.
