Switzerland and Spain tied with the same goal in the meeting that
brought together both teams, on Saturday, in the framework of the fifth
round of the European Nations League, while Real Madrid captain
Sergio Ramos missed two penalty kicks in this match.
After the match, Spain coach Luis Enrique said: “I don’t remember
what you said to Ramos before taking the second penalty kick,
Ramos’s numbers at the head of the top players selected for penalty kicks.
If we had got more penalties, 3 or 4, he was Who will pay it as well,
Ramos has scored 25 consecutive penalties, and these things always
happen in football. ”
As for Spain’s goalkeeper, Luis Enrique said: “I will repeat the same thing:
I have 3 great goalkeepers.”
With regard to the Switzerland match and what the Spanish national team
presented, Enrique explained, “I liked the team at the beginning of the match.
It repeated what we were looking for, which was pressure and control
over the opponent throughout the field. We respect the opponent,
but today’s result is unfair, we were better than the opponent in Everything,
except for the equalizer. ”
He continued: “I will reach the end of the world with my team, this is football,
it is a wonderful sport, but it is often not fair, it was an
interesting match for the fans, I think we dominated the whole first half,
and we received a goal with a little luck, good at it.” It is that our future
is in our hands, and today’s result is not bad for the last round. ”
And Ramos was the only one, with the record for the most international
matches at the European level, by his participation in the match against
Switzerland in the fifth and penultimate round of Group C of the European
Nations League football competition.
The Real Madrid defender equaled the European record registered in
the name of Italian goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon (176 international matches),
after his participation, Wednesday, in a friendly match for his national
team against the Netherlands (1-1).
Ramos, 34, is 8 games away from the world record equalization registered
in the name of retired Egyptian “Brigadier” Ahmed Hassan,
who has 184 international matches
