The style of play is the attack of Spain

The style and the demanding selection of players that adapt to it has become the mattress on which Luis Enrique overcomes setbacks, whether they are injuries or internationals who do not play for his teams.

In these last two tests before the World Cup in Qatar, the forward exemplifies like no other line the coach's faith in his idea of ​​the game and in the players who must interpret it.

“The national team has its style regardless of whether one or the other plays.

This is a team sport and that is how we have assimilated it.

We don't change our way of attacking based on the players.

We always attack and defend in the same way”, warned the coach from Gijón this Friday when he was questioned about the need to rebuild the lead.

Between injuries, fitness and discards due to technical decision, putting together a forward line with players who are regulars at their clubs has become impossible for Luis Enrique.

The mess not only points to tonight's duel in Zaragoza, against Switzerland (20.45, La1), and Tuesday's, against Portugal, in Braga.

The problem may persist with a view to the World Cup.

The coach has seen how five attackers have dropped in this call.

Muscular ailments prevented him from quoting Gerard Moreno and Dani Olmo.

Mikel Oyarzabal continues in his particular time trial to reach the World Cup after the serious cruciate ligament injury that occurred in March;

Raúl de Tomás will not be able to play until January because his transfer to Rayo Vallecano was not closed with the open market;

With the attacker from Villarreal and Leipzig he should have fewer problems to be able to count on them in Qatar, but the other three have it complicated.

De Tomás is practically ruled out.

With Oyarzabal, Luis Enrique has already heard the reluctance that Real Sociedad has for him to come if he has not had time to enter the competition.

“I don't want Mikel [Oyarzabal] for the World Cup.

I want Mikel and his knee for many years at Real Sociedad.

He is aware of what he has to do, that recovery has to be total.

I am not going to rush”, Imanol Alguacil recently pointed out.

Fati's absence in Qatar, if confirmed, would mean the resignation of a footballer in whom the coach had high hopes to make a leap in quality that would allow games to be resolved more easily.

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Under this scenario, Luis Enrique has Álvaro Morata as his only great offensive reference.

That the Atlético striker has been a starter in all the league games, except in the derby with Real Madrid, and in the two Champions League games, has been one of the great satisfactions that the coach has had at this start of the season.

Also the confirmation of Borja Iglesias has relieved him.

He does not even rule out that they can play together if one of them falls to a band.

This formula of two

has already been used with Gerard Moreno on the right and Morata in the center.

"Good players always have a place," said Luis Enrique.

Sarabia as an example

With the rest of the strikers, he has no choice but to take refuge in performance and in adapting to his forwards' script that have performed under his direction.

That argument was used yesterday to defend the presence of Ferran Torres.

This, between the good moment of Dembélé, the hiring of Rapinha, and the cut on one foot in a swimming pool whose wound did not close well, has lost weight in Xavi's Barcelona.

“Ferran is a wing player who has a goal, he is not a goalscorer who plays on the wing.

He has given us a lot and he has spectacular numbers.

He will go through better or worse moments, but that happens to everyone.”

Access to ownership for Pablo Sarabia at PSG is also very complicated due to the size of Messi, Mbappé and Neymar.

However, the situation for Sarabia is not new.

He has already earned his entry into the roster for the last European Championship under similar circumstances.

He arrived at the concentration for that appointment as the last striker and climbed in training to emerge as a starter during the competition.

Since then, he is the great example of the mantra that Luis Enrique slips more frequently lately to explain his calls.

"I am guided more by what they have done and are doing with the national team than by what they do in their clubs," says the coach.

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