Summary of day 12 of the World Cup in Qatar 2022
This has been the most relevant of the twelfth day:
Germany rescues Spain. Spain owes one to Germany. And not just any one. If it weren’t for the German help, what was presumed to be the expansive team of Luis Enrique would be back in Spain in the broom truck in which Qatar, Tunisia, Canada, Iran, Saudi Arabia… and Germany have left the World Cup through the cat flap. , whose last-minute victory over Costa Rica only served Spain, which did not return the float.
The surprise of Japan, leader in a group of giants. Japanese soccer has left the theme park. It has carried away the aristocratic Germany and was about to cause a collapse and a historic blow to the Spain of Luis Enrique, to which it lowered the smoke. La Roja was out of the tournament for three minutes when Costa Rica took the lead over Germany.
Luis Enrique: “I’m not happy at all.” “In football there are no easy paths,” said the Spanish coach about the second place that avoids a hypothetical crossing in the quarterfinals with Brazil; “There are merits, and today I am not happy at all. We have qualified, but I wanted to be first and have won this game, ”Luis Enrique lamented, inflamed every time he recalled the confusion of Spain in the second half. “Japan had five minutes, they scored two goals against us and in ten they disarmed us. If they had needed two more goals, they would have scored for us as well”.
Flick: “I’m not upset with Spain.” “I can’t believe this is over,” said Niclas Füllkrug, an anonymous figure in the German team until this World Cup gave him the chance to break into goalscoring with two goals, one against Spain and the other against Costa Rica, two small feats that they were of no use to his team but that they placed him in the market. The trip lasted two weeks. “I have a bittersweet feeling,” he said; “I have scored goals for the first time with the national team, we have drawn with Spain and beaten Costa Rica thanks to that and, nevertheless, we are eliminated”.
Modric retires Hazard. The end of the golden generation of Belgium, third in the previous World Cup, happened accompanied by a moment full of symbolism. In the 87th minute, Eden Hazard finally appeared on the pitch, and he did so replacing Meunier, precisely the footballer who broke his right ankle in November 2019. There began a tortuous trail of injuries that deactivated a rare and exciting talent that He went to shut down this Thursday, with his extraordinary Belgian litter, at the Ahmad bin Ali stadium. With them, his ideologue also left, the Spanish Roberto Martínez, coach since 2016, who at the end announced that he would not renew his contract: “It was my last game as national coach.”
The winning inertia drives Morocco. The Moroccan team was reached with the winning inertia caused by their victory against Belgium (0-2) and the draw against Croatia (0-0), third and second classified respectively in Russia-2018, to knock out the eliminated Canada and qualify as group leader for the round of 16 of the 2022 World Cup. Nothing like this has been remembered in the African country for 36 years, when in the 1986 World Cup in Mexico it also entered the round of 16 crossover and was eliminated by Germany , winner with a late goal from Mathäus
Source: Elpais