Alvaro Morata He was all heart and attitude in Spain’s match against Serbia in the fourth game of the group stage of the Nations League, he tried everything to get that liberating goal, a goal at an unbeatable moment after two glaring errors: a point-blank header and a penalty that sent him sky high.
The first of the chances came just before half-time, in the 41st minute, in a strange chance that Cucurella turned into a golden opportunity. Rajkovic went wrong to cover the long ball thrown to Morata, collided with his defense and left the ball dead for Cucurella to cross. He had the goal for himself, but the shot was not powerful enough so that the rival goalkeeper did not have time to arrive.
“Morata, Morata!”chanted the entire stands of the Nuevo Arcángel de Córdoba instantly after the failed opportunity to encourage their striker. The same thing happened after the break, when the second and most glaring error came.
The ‘7’ did not stop trying, and the stands also gave him love when, in a penalty called for handball after a shot by Pedro Porro, he threw the ball into the clouds. After the lament, Morata seemed completely out of the game, but the stands kept him plugged in.
It was in the 64th minute when, in a good offensive play by Spain, Fabián drove to the front and found the forward in his perfect unmarking. Morata played it perfectly, first time, with the perfect thread to place it on the side of the net and cause an earthquake of joy in Córdoba.
The forward, with pure rage, He put his finger to his forehead in a gesture of mental solidity. and celebrated with his teammates a goal of pure liberation after a really difficult night. The stands, again as happened in Murcia, chanted the name of ‘7’.
Morata’s participation in these two games comes after the confession of his hardest moments, the depression he suffered and that forced him to look for a way out of Spanish football after winning the Euro Cup this summer.
