Nakai gives the Fourteenth – AS.com

Madrid is youth cup champion. The Fourteenth is already in the white case. Magic number that the elderly dream of. In 2017, Achraf’s generation, led by Guti, won the 12+1 and Hernán Pérez’s boys took over. The hero is Takuhiro Nakai. Pee. Otsu’s talent jumped onto the field in the second half, as a shock and in extra time, after a sovereign ride by Bruno Iglesias, he hit a ball near the edge with his soul. Pure instep. To the sky of the goalas the white blackbirds raised the Cup to the sky after enduring the final push parakeet.

Since 2019, through a health break, there has not been a Youth Cup final and, as if the essences were eager to get out of the jar, the game started like a Formula 1. Pure effervescence as soon as the traffic light turned green. Madrid, which eliminated Villarreal, current champion, in the round of 16, tried to propose through possession. Espanyol, of the acceleration and talent of Miguel Carvalho and Luca. And it didn’t take long for the first to arrive, by the work and grace of the couple after seven minutes. The American shorthanded a distant free kick, Miguel advanced and, without too much opposition, remotely controlled a flat howitzer that went through the white defense until it became 0-1. In the last U-17 concentration he stood out as the star of the generation and it didn’t take him long to show why.

Of course, we already said that the start was dizzying and, just three minutes later, Loren placed the tables. Gonzalo, very active in the opening minutes, delivered a ball to the Real Madrid striker (eleventh goal in 2022) in the corner of the small area and he, accurate, sealed the tie with a cross shot. From there, maximum tuteo, full of respect. Bruno Iglesias tried to take the handle, but the midfield parakeet he knew that tying the man from Salamanca short was one of the keys to his fifth cup trophy. Luca Warrick was the Spanish poison and his overflow attempts were perennial.

change of script

However, the clear chances were frozen. The script changed. Goodbye fizz. This is how the break was reached and continued after the snack. Espanyol managed to score, with a powerful header after a free kick by Miranda, but they were half a length ahead and it was annulled. Hernán Pérez put in halfway through the second half, in the middle of the substitution carousel, Room for the striker Loren ya Nakai. The Badajoz passed on tiptoe, but nor so the Japanese, who soon showed that his obsession is the rival goal. As the hourglass lost sand, the revolutions dropped even more. A mistake was fatal and both teams knew it.

Extension said the stopwatch. And there emerges, when legs fail, talent. Bruno, who had barely managed to get his usual incidence, grabbed a ball near midfield. Eternal race to the baseline, his stumbled cut ended at the foot of Nakai, who caged her. She gibberish and revelry, but there was still time. Bruno was limping away, negative note of the ride. Espanyol tried, but without luck. Asencio and Marvel acted as bomb squads, deactivating the bombs that came from the wings, while Villar did a dirty job that did not let Miguel Carvalho shine beyond the initial goal. Ferran was sent off for a double yellow card, but he didn’t care when the whistle blew for the last time. He celebrated, like all white youth, the Fourteenth.