Spain's players demand attacking style, says coach De la Fuente

Soccer-Spain's players demand attacking style, says coach De la Fuente

ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (Reuters) - Spain will embrace their attacking instincts when they face the Netherlands in the first leg of their Nations League quarter-final on Thursday in a match that would be a fitting European Championship final, said coach Luis de la Fuente. Read full story

Spain's players demand attacking style, says coach De la Fuente

ROTTERDAM, Netherlands : Spain will embrace their attacking instincts when they face the Netherlands in the first leg of their Nations League quarter-final on Thursday in a match that would be a fitting European Championship final, said coach Luis de la Fuente.Spain topped Nations League A Group Four with

Routine and customs are part of Luis de la Fuente’s method of work. The Riojan technician does not change his formula in the days before the matches. Morning training at the headquarters of concentration, evening flight and press conference at eight o’clock at night. Before playing against the Netherlands in the run-up to the quarter-finals of the League of Nations, De la Fuente spoke of the famous “party-to-party” popularized by Simeone. “It is…

“Two coaches mark today. Luis de la Fuente and Jagoba Barrasate,” he began by saying Tomás Guasch in his ‘Time of Analysis. Yesterday the Spanish Team measured to the Netherlands to compete the way out of the quarterfinals of the League of Nations, a match that was “of the least lucid of the selection in recent times.” Despite that, a tie was achieved thanks to the good doing of Luis de la Fuente for the “triple change: Lamine, out; Pedri and Mo…

Spain coach De la Fuente: “Pau Cubarsi only has a small sprain, we hope and want him to be with us on Sunday. In principle, it does not seem serious and we have to monitor him, but of course we will not risk anything.

Luis De La Fuente agreed with Spain’s tie in Rotterdam: “It has been a very hard-working draw, based on sacrifice and effort, and with phases of good play before a great rival.