Lthe crosses of the Euro 2024. For Spain the appointment is in Colonia in Georgia. The decisive phase begins, in which there is no room to recover errors. It’s kill or be killed, sportingly speaking.
You will notice that adrenaline that you feel in those games again. Pedri. The canary was in the two elevens with which From the source The Euro started and was one of those protected against Albania. For the Cologne event he is in the front line of fire to play against the team with which he started for the first time: in Tbilisi, in an agonizing 1-2 on March 28, 2021.
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Absent in the two Final Four of the Nations League in which Spain has been (2021 and 2023), Pedri He could not be there because of the injuries that have plagued him so much. This means that every game that Pedri has played with Spain since the last Euro has required extra time and/or penalties. That’s how it was in the Euro, weeks later in the Tokyo Games and in Qatar.
Three years ago, in the Euro that should have been played in 2020 but the pandemic led to 2021, Spain advanced in the round of 16 in extra time. Versus Croatiain Copenhagenfrom 3-1 with five minutes remaining, it went to extra time. Pedri He played all 120 minutes of a game that ended 5-3.
The rooms had Swiss as an enemy, St. Petersburg. Spain passed in the penalty shootout and the final minute was the only one that Pedri He stopped playing in the entire Euro. Luck changed sides in the semi-final of Wembley. In the temple of universal football, it was Italy that reached the final from eleven meters.
With hardly any rest, Pedri He traveled to Tokyo to win Olympic silver. Every step that Spain took since the group stage ended was to the limit. In the quarterfinals he was out when at 90 minutes Ivory Coast made it 2-1. But it wasn’t finished. tied Rafa Mir On his big day, three goals, and De la Fuente’s Spain won 5-2. Pedri left the field in the 102nd minute, already with the Spanish advantage.
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The pass to the final came with a goal from Asensio in the 115th minute, against Japan in Saitama. That day, Pedri He ‘only’ played 83 minutes. And the Olympic gold escaped Brazil with the goal of Malcom at 108 minutes into the game. Pedri played the entire final.
After the Games came darkness, injuries. Pedri was absent from the absolute team since the semi-final of Wembley until March 2022. But it arrived on time at Qatar World Cup. As in the Euro, the canary was a key piece for Luis Enrique. On December 6, in the Education de City of Doha, played the 120 minutes of what ended badly against Morocco in the first penalty shootout in which Spain was not able to score a single goal. It was the seventh time in a row that Pedri there was an outcome beyond the 90th minute.
In all that Pedri has played with Spain, 41 games, since his debut with the under 17 team, there are only two crosses that ended with the 90 minutes. They were in the 2019 Under 17 World Cup in Brazil: 2-1 against Senegal in the round of 16 and the 1-6 blow against France in the quarterfinals.
