Where it once sealed the most complete match in its history, Spain got a kick out of it.
In Kiev, the venue for that memorable final of the Euro Cup in 2012, Luis Enrique's team took an unexpected scourge against a rival that does not travel through the elite, especially if it is downgraded by the coronavirus.
La Roja has found Adama, but Adama has not yet found anyone to put an end to his innumerable rounds, most of them victorious.
There was no one who completed Adama's task and Spain paid again for its lack of dynamite, despite its 21 auctions.
Dry in Lisbon, dry in Kiev and only relieved by a gift from a Swiss goalkeeper in Valdebebas.
Against Ukraine, beaten on their visit to Madrid, they kept control in the first half.
With government, but without force before the local goal.
Schevchenko's team, to the amazement of its 10,000 fans present at the stadium, dropped ties after the break and sent Spain to the canvas with a goal woven from their goal with three touches.
However, despite their first defeat in almost two years, the Red remains at the top of their group in the League of Nations after the draw between the Germans and the Swiss.
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Ukraine Bushchan, Illia Zabarnyi, Aleksandr Karavaev, Sobol, Vitaliy Mykolenko, Mykola Shaparenko, E. Makarenko, S. Sydorchuk (Viktor Kovalenko, min. 59), Roman Yaremchuk, Yarmolenko and Zubkov (Tsygankov, min. 64) Spain Vas De Gea, Jesús Navas Navas , Sergio Ramos, Pau Francisco Torres, Reguilón, Rodrigo, Merino (Dani Ceballos, min. 45), Canales (Dani Olmo, min. 72), Adama Traore, Ansu Fati (Ferrán Torres, min. 57) and Rodrigo (Oyarzabal, min. 57)
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75: Tsygankov.
Knowing that Ukraine would be cloaked in front of their fourth goalkeeper, Luis Enrique launched a challenge to his two most differential players of the moment: Ansu Fati and Adama Traoré.
With the local team fastened, La Roja needed who would pull the forceps.
Fati, with his intuitive game inside, or Traoré, that TBM that leaves ashes in its wake when it starts at the end.
It happened to Sobol, whom he made life bitter in each race.
This Traoré is a convoy.
Better aided by Navas than Fati by Reguilón, the Wolves player's tonnage, a top speed competition, was the best of Spain.
But as usual, the national team is missing a jackal.
Rodrigo is not, nor are any of his relievers.
So Adama's supersonic flights were not quite terminal.
Rodrigo managed to head a Navas cross with a squad and bevel, but Bushchan deflected the ball.
The same as before an incursion by Ansu Fati and a foul executed by Sergio Ramos.
Sheltered on the ropes, Ukraine wanted to get to De Gea faster than it could afford.
The Spanish goalkeeper guessed it, well as a libero to remove in a couple of threatening plays.
Until the start of the second act, there was hardly any offensive trace from the locals, who clamored for an alleged Navas penalty as much as Pau Torres and Sergio Ramos had claimed before in the rival area.
UEFA dispenses with VAR in this League of Nations.
Orthodoxy
La Roja was delinquent with the ball, only upset when Adama and Navas played the cornet.
Wrinkled Merino and Canales, Spain could not find who would assault Schevchenko's lines.
Without Adama in the middle, everything too orthodox.
Faced with such warm, crowded opponents, patience, perseverance, ingenuity and clinical footing are required.
Luis Enrique's team lacked, above all, the last two attributes.
It was difficult for him to find Fati, who was more prone to venturing down interior corridors than Adama.
Reguilón did not find the formula to stretch the team with the required frequency, which Jesús Navas did on the other side, leaving the end free for sprinter Traoré, who always lacked comrade shooters with saw teeth before the goal.
Without a Spanish spark, the picture changed after the break.
Ukraine loosed more and never slackened on defense.
Luis Enrique threw off the bench, but found no remedy with Ferran and Oyarzabal for Fati and Rodrigo.
Ceballos articulated something better to the team, but while the offensive dictation was the same - Traoré against Ukraine - the team cracked more on defense.
On the contrary, the local team began to give warnings.
Until he caught a simple goal.
A goal kick from goalkeeper Bushchan, Reguilón was late to his mark, the same as Pau and the same as Navas.
Pass from a goalkeeper, three touches and to the bucket.
Tsygankov's goal left Spain so out in the open that he found no other amendment than to screw Sergio Ramos as a striker.
At least a partner for Adama.
It was too late and La Roja left Kiev chastened, where one day in July eight years ago they embroidered football as never before with four goals against Italy.
Today, the goal is usually an ordeal for this Spain in works.
