Faraj Benlahoucine, Media365, published on Friday June 21, 2024 at 8:03 a.m.
Decisive and omnipresent against Italy, Nico Williams broke the screen. The Spanish international could well compete with Lamine Yamal for star status at La Roja.
Spain has the wind in its sails in this Euro 2024. In the group of death, La Roja ideally approached its two posters in group B. Facing Croatia, pulverized when it entered the running (3-0). This Thursday Italy also suffered the superiority of the Iberians, winners by the narrowest of margins and qualified for the eighth. The happiness came from an own goal from Riccardo Calafiori (55th). A clumsy clumsiness certainly, but very unintentional on the part of the Bologna defender. This was caused by the lively man on the Spanish side: Nico Williams.
The world of football only has eyes for Lamine Yamal. However, on the opposite wing, Spain have another diamond in the rough. In addition to his cross bringing the only goal of the match, the Basque winger was omnipresent. “A match that changes a career and an action that shocks the planet” wrote about him in the Madrid daily AS. The action in question occurred in the 70th minute. Off-center on the left side, with disconcerting ease he eliminated Giovanni Di Lorenzo while returning to his right foot to curl a shot narrowly missing from lodging in the opposite corner.
A Yamal – Williams association at Barça?
Beaten, Gianluigi Donnarumma was very happy to see this jewel smashed against his crossbar. Luis de la Fuente did not want to leave the 21-year-old striker on the pitch until the final whistle, he replaced him with Ayoze Perez in the 78th minute. Coaching which did not prevent him from winning the man of the match title awarded by UEFA. Currently under contract at Athletic Bilbao, it is rumored that Barça exerts pressure behind the scenes to appropriate it in exchange for fifty million euros. A transfer which would also delight his teammate in the selection, Lamine Yamal with whom he gets along wonderfully on and outside the green rectangle.
