The Spanish media was silent when the men’s national team suffered a surprise loss to Morocco in the follow-up games of the World Cup. Ferran Torres spoke after the match in a special way. Luis Enrique took the blame for weak penalties.
Roope Visuri,
Matias Strozyk
The World Cup saw the biggest surprise so far, when Morocco defeated Spain, one of the champion favorites, in a penalty shootout. The match ended goalless. Even in the penalty shootout, Spain did not succeed once. Morocco decided the competition with three successes.
In the Spanish media, the country’s football pride is now being flogged hard.
Marca talked about the fiasco. AS, on the other hand, emphasizes in its headline that Spain died like Russia. Because AS refers to how four years ago at the World Cup, Spain lost in the quarterfinals to Russia on penalties.
Spain’s surprising defeat in the quarterfinals of the World Cup also caused the players’ heads to drop. Spain dominated the match, but grinded the ball at their feet ineffectively.
– The loss stings. I think we didn’t deserve this, we were the better team. We weren’t able to take advantage of the situations we got. I’m proud of the team and the coach, the striker Ferran Torres said Marcan (you switch to another service) by.
According to Marca, Torres also made a special comment, which also according to El Mundo was related to the refereeing.
– I don’t like to go here, but sometimes there have been moments when it has felt like we were playing against twelve. We can’t go into things we can’t control, Torres said.
The Spanish team has already been reformed, but now there may be a few more losses. At least the captain Sergio Busquets, 34, may be at the end of his national team career. Busquets refused to comment on the matter after the match, but Torres wished both Busquets and the head coach Luis Enrique’s to continue in their roles.
– We are trying to get “Bus” and the other conkers to continue. I don’t know what will happen with the coach, but we will go with him until the end. Whatever is decided is for the best, Torres said.
Luis Enrique commented on the team’s shocking relegation on Spanish TV.
– Football is a wonderful sport, but a team can also win without attacking. I think we dominated the game. We would have liked to get even more out of it. We had 11 shots on goal. Penalties cost us this game, but I’m proud of my team, Luis Enrique said.
Enrique took the weak penalty kicks to heart.
– Everything is my responsibility because I chose the first three leaders. The players chose the rest. We didn’t even make it to the fourth draw. Bono (Yassine Bounou) is a great goalie to fend off tough guys. Today he was great, Enrique stated.
In the end, the coach apologized to his fans for the early relegation, and did not terribly comment on his own future at the helm of Spain.
– Now is not the right time to talk about it. I’m excited to get home now. I think we will discuss my future next week, Enrique concluded.