Spain got both points in its visit to Portugal, and with two victories in two days for his group, like Hungary, paves the way to get into the 2022 European Championship. More or less normal if you look at the numbers, but if you watch the game this Sunday the The feeling is of relief after a few moments of uncertainty, restlessness, unbelief, because the local team came back six goals against Spain and had a chance to win, or at least to tie: 22-23 (11-14).
So much suffering of the Warriors is only explained by their bad game in the last quarter, when the group went into crisis, and more than failing shots, they lost possession of the ball in innocuous situations: 16, by 12 for Portugal. And against an inferior team that is not noticeable, but this new generation from the neighboring country has a wide legion of players in European leagues, and is trying to break that nefarious streak they have against Spain, of only one victory in 35 games.
Kaba Gassama, the last to arrive, was the one who achieved the winning goal, and when the order of entering the National Team was supposed to be Lysa Tchapchet the one who had a leading role in the pivot, the one from Elche was almost unpublished. Lara González did not play, which is only explained by some medical issue, because in the first game she completed attack and defense, and that is where her foul was noticed in the second half, when Unjanque without opposition scored four goals against Spain from nine meters.
You can do all kinds of readings, some very negative, but inexplicable is that in 15 minutes the Warriors only scored three goals, from 15-20 to 22-23. That gap in the final stretch of a game always penalizes, and it was not so much this time because Portugal at 22-21 was afraid of finding a victory that he saw as impossible.