How a defeat could be turned into a profit? That’s a great title for the book which could be a bestseller and Luis Enrique could be the author. Spain coach experienced an uneasy defeat in the last round of the World Cup group stage and if it wasn’t for Kai Havertz and his two goals in a 4-2 Germany win, he would be out of Qatar altogether. Instead, a 2-1 defeat from Japan eventually felt like a victory, as Spain will play in the Top 16, avoiding Croatia and Brazil in the process. But Enrique didn’t looked at the situation in that way.Who would have thought!? The Samurai beat Spain to top group E“We had started well, scoring and without suffering dangerous situations. In the halftime we had already said to be careful with Japan and look, as soon as we started we went into collapse mode. I told them to be cautious because they had nothing to lose. We collapsed and they could have scored two more goals. I’m not happy at all. I have nothing to celebrate. In football you deserve it or not and we didn’t deserve it. I’m not happy at all. We were dismantled” said Enrique after the game.Japan against Germany and Spain pic.twitter.com/gpDHyfrfhZ— Troll Football (@TrollFootball) December 1, 2022 At one point, Germany was losing 2-1 to Costa Rica, before Kai Havertz turned the score completely with two goals and stopped Spain from being relegated from the World Cup. For those three minutes, the Red Fury was out of Qatar, but Enrique claims he didn’t know that.”We were knocked out? I was not paying attention to the other match, when did that happen? I didn’t know this. If I found that out, I would have had a heart attack” said Enrique.that 75 seconds where spain and germany were both out pic.twitter.com/FCpHlF35Qc— Joe (@Fauxmino) December 1, 2022 The Spanish coach also talked about his selection and admitted he was wrong but didn’t want to make a big fuss about it.”I put the eleven players that I considered the best. I have maximum confidence in my players. Now, after the fact, maybe I didn’t put the same eleven, but that’s the easy thing. Now I have to analyze the game and correct the things that we have I did wrong. And lift my players’ spirits” said Enrique.Friday, Dec 2nd18:00: (8.00) S.Korea (4.50) Portugal (1.42) H18:00: (4.80) Ghana (3.45) Uruguay (1.80) H22:00: (11.0) Cameroon (5.20) Brazil (1.30) G22:00: (2.60) Serbia (3.40) Switzerland (2.70) G
