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In ten years we may well look back on Euro 2024 as the dawn of a new era of Barcelona -steered Spain dominance in major international tournaments.
Spain are very different now. After 30 minutes Germany had nearly twice the number of passes of Luis de la Fuente’s side, and by half-time Spain had had eight shots, all from outside the box. Tiki taka has made way for speed and dribbling prowess, possession is highly valued but isn’t everything, and rather than passing the ball into the net they look to score by any means necessary.
The goal was simple. Too simple from a Germany perspective, but Yamal and Olmo often make the difficult look easy and this was no different. Yamal ran at David Raum and instead of looking to get past the full-back – which has proved difficult for the teenager up to that point – he played a perfectly weighted pass to the edge of the box, into the path of the onrushing Olmo, who timed his run perfectly to sweep the ball into the far corner.
Germany wouldn’t have equalised without Fullkrug, but he played no part in the goal. Maximilian Mittelstadt’s deep cross was headed down by Kimmich to Wirtz, who struck the ball in off the far post. Wirtz was infinitely more effective than Leroy Sane having replaced the winger at half-time, and Andrich was far superior to Emre Can. We would advise Julian Nagelsmann not to leave players who lost one game for their clubs last season out of the starting lineup in future.
If Barcelona weren’t convinced by Olmo beforehand they will be now after a goal, an assist and supreme quality besides. He could join Yamal, Pedri and likely Williams in being the stalwarts of both Spain and Barcelona for the foreseeable future, forming a clique that can drive club and country to dominate on all fronts like the legendary La Masia midfield trio they will have grown up watching, but in a very different style.
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