Lamine Yamal, Dani Olmo, Morata, David Raya, Le Normand, Ayoze and Ferran will be at risk during the quarterfinals
The play that ended in Morata’s yellow.CHEMA KING
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MIGUEL ANGEL LARA
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Next Friday, the Spanish team will find out its rival for the quarterfinals of the Nations League and the possible semifinal matchup. Spain They will be seeded and will play the return leg at home in March. Croatia one of the possible rivals is now certain. The others will come from the outcome between France and Italy and Netherlands and Hungary.
Spain arrived in Copenhagen with four warnings and in March it will enter with seven despite the fact that Mikel Oyarzabal He is back home after being booked at Parken. It is not that the team saw many more yellow cards, because they only added Morata’s, but it is expected that players who have already seen a yellow in this qualifying phase will be back. They are the cases of Lamine Yamal, Ferran and Le Normand.
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Spain will have seven players in the risk zone for the quarterfinals, because it is in that round when the cards are cleared. Nations, or when each team finishes its competition in the tournament. To these three cases are added those of Morata, Ayoze, David Raya and Dani Olmofour players who, if they play against Switzerland, will be at risk of missing the first leg of the quarterfinals.
The coach has been clear in this regard from the beginning. I didn’t want any plan to clean up the yellows, something that in the Parken It could have been raised with 0-2. But De la Fuente is one of the coaches who prefers the naturalness of the game and looking for solutions once problems arise, not before. He himself is one yellow away from punishment after in Belgrade was reprimanded for claiming a yellow for a knockdown Joselu in the area.
During the qualifying phase, the team has seen two of its players complete the warning cycle. The first was Carvajal and now it is Oyarzabal. In addition, he suffered the expulsion of Le Normand, who saw a direct red card 20 minutes into the game in Geneva. Spain had not suffered an expulsion since September 2019 (Diego Llorente in Bucharest) and had not been left with 10 in a first half since September 2007 (Xabi Alonso, Reykjavik).
