With a touch more serious but equally optimistic, Luis de la Fuente confidently faces his second game as Spanish coach, who will face Scotland this Tuesday at the legendary Hampden Park in Glasgow on the way to Euro 2024.
"Scotland is a very intense and aggressive team, which plays with a very high dynamism and has top-level individualities. Their football has evolved a lot, they continue to dominate direct play but now they also know how to elaborate football, with depth and breadth in the bands", described the man from La Rioja in the preview of the duel. "We will try to bring the game to our field, including hurting them from set pieces," he added.
After a debut with clear and dark against Norway, which ended with a win thanks to a record Joselu, De la Fuente continued with his line of not revealing the eleven but he did make it quite clear that he will apply many changes. "If I have done it before and it has worked, why change?" The coach recalled, referring to his stage in the under-21s.
The Barça player, Gavi, was the subject of a profound assessment by the national coach. "He is in a mature phase, we have not yet seen his best version. Among his virtues are courage, genius and energy, but he will gradually acquire more maturity, which will allow him to control those behaviors that may not be beneficial for him or For the team, it is something that we have discussed with him, like seeing a card very early in a game", he explained.
Lastly, De la Fuente gave reasons for his optimism after the game against Norway. "We have seen the videos and there were many sequences of automatisms that we had worked on in just four training sessions," he revealed.
