The hype was big, the new selection of players was strange, to put it like that, but Spain national team under the new boss Luis de la Fuente started the EURO 2024 qualifications with a comfortable 3-0 win over Norway. But, things soon turn for the worse as the Red Fury were downed by a humble Scotland, who won at Hampten Park 2-0 while the Spaniards never looked like winning this one. Defeat is never easy, especially from the team which is all but technically sound, so that really proved tough for the Spaniards. So tough, that they failed to recognize their own mistakes and went for the host instead.EURO 2024Q: ‘Striker’ McTominay protects home from pesky SpaniardsManchester City’s Rodri claimed that Scotland’s game play was ‘rubbish’ while other thought that the grass on the field was one of the reasons!“It’s the way they play, you have to respect, but for me it’s a bit rubbish. Always wasting time, provoking you, always they fall. For me, this is not football. For the speed of the sport, you have to move on. The referee has to take on this, but he says nothing. It’s a bit frustrating because we want to win. We want to go for duels, for battles – we always fight, but this is not about fighting. It’s about wasting time – four, five players on the floor, but this depends on the referee, not on us. But they have their weapons. We have to use our weapons and we will learn for the next time” he told Viaplay. Rodri on Spain’s defeat to Scotland:”It’s the way they play…for me it’s a bit rubbish. Because it’s always wasting time. “They provoke you. They always fall. For me, this is not football,” he told @ViaplayFotball. 🇪🇸 pic.twitter.com/KSlRAmkXbC— Chris Wheatley (@ChrisWheatley) March 28, 2023 One of the ‘unknown’ debutants, Osasuna defender Daniel Garcia was even worse, as the Spaniard blamed the length of the Hampden Park grass as a contributing factor to their poor performance.“We already saw that the grass was too long, and that cost us. We can’t make excuses for that, we have to look at ourselves and fix what we did wrong today” Garcia told Marca.Scotland put an end to Spain’s 19-game unbeaten streak in European qualifiers with their first win against the Spanish since 1984 🏴 pic.twitter.com/2zdyEBRuXy— B/R Football (@brfootball) March 28, 2023 And while the Spanish press had its field day with big headlines and even posting funny memes with Luis Enrique smiling, former Red Fury keeper and Real’s legend Iker Casillas simply said:”On Saturday Spain was milk. We were going to win the 4th Euro Cup. Nobody remembered Luis Enrique. Today the coach is a ruin. Spain a disaster. They do not qualify for the Euro. And we have just started…”, he wrote on his Twitter.##NAJAVA_MECA_7138717##
