The start of the third game was a continuation of what was seen in this group stage. Spain started very domineering but again that ‘damned’ lack of success appeared. Catela and Gordilloagain, were the differential elements of a team that gets stuck when the ball doesn’t go in. The center gives another air to the team and the wings appreciate it.
Was Jagged the one who with a play on the wing managed to open the can. The National Team took off the burden of scoring the first goal for Fede’s men and immediately followed by the second, this time from Adolfo. Spain was beginning to ‘be in its element’ but Libya did not give up its game and those of Rodrigo Íñiguez they managed to get closer a couple of times to Herrero’s goal with some danger.
The sensations in the 40×20 were still good but in Tashkent, more than 300 kilometers away, Kazakhstan replicated Spain’s result again and again. The National Team did not pay attention to what was happening in the capital of Uzbekistan and he continued to press the accelerator, until Cortés scored. Libya didn’t have the ball last, something that first Mellado and then Catela knew how to take advantage of to open the gap on the scoreboard even further.
Vidal’s men went to the locker room with a 0-5 scoreline which reflected his infinite superiority on the track. A feeling confirmed by the shots undertaken in that first period: 57curiously the same as in the first half against New Zealand. But the second half It started with very different sensations. on the track. Libya broke loose and ‘started’ to play.
But Spain did not go crazy and knew how to ‘fish’ in a match that was beginning to get messy.Mellado and Cortes they were the smartest and again They put even more land in the way in the light. The ‘bad’ news came from Tashkent, Kazakhstan beat the New Zealanders And little by little they were getting closer in the ‘golaverage’.
The Spanish bench was beginning to get impatient with the Kazakh goals and in a way this was reflected on the track. The National Team could not find its way and the nerves were ‘in crescendo’. But the end of the match in Tashkent kept Spain leader of the groupit was as ‘simple’ as not conceding a goal. Vidal’s men kept a clean sheet and thus sealed a great group stage.
TECHNICAL SHEET:
LIBYA: Feras; Ahmed, Ibrahim, Zreeg, Ibrahim. SUP.: Ziyad (ps), Suliman, Husam, Alajnef, Khamis, Jazoora, Alyamny, Hakam, Remo.
SPAIN: Blacksmith; Tomaz, Adolfo, Mellado, Raúl Campos. SUP.: Chemi (ps), Didac (ps), Antonio, Catela, Boyis, Raul Gómez, Cortés, Lozano, Gordillo.
REFEREES: Fahad Al Hosani and Ebrahim Mehrabi (United Arab Emirates and Iran)
GOALS: 0-1 8′ Mellado, 0-2 9′ Adolfo, 0-3 14′ Cortés, 0-4 15′ Mellado, 0-5 18′ Catela. 0-6 27′ Mellado, 0-7 28′ Cortés, 0-8 31′ Gordillo.
