Spain vs. Belarus: Score, Grades and Reaction from Euro 2016 Qualifier

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Published: November 15, 2014

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Real Madrid midfielder Isco’s first goal, on his first international start, was the standout moment as Spain cruised to a comfortable 3-0 victory over Belarus in Huelva on Saturday.

Isco found the top corner from all of 25 yards after 18 minutes to break the deadlock in the Group C meeting, as Sergio Busquets scored with a deflected strike less than 60 seconds later to effectively kill off the match as a contest.

Barcelona forward Pedro then scored at the start of the second half to clinch three points, as Spain cruised to victory inside the Nuevo Colombino—a ground picked to host the game because Huelva, Spain’s oldest club, is celebrating its 125-year anniversary.

The victory puts Vicente del Bosque’s side back on track for qualification, with nine points from a possible 12. Belarus, still with only one point to their name, perhaps always knew that reaching the 2016 finals in France would be a tough ask.

Afterwards, Del Bosque said (per Football Espana):

We played well, we dominated the game and in less than half-an-hour we scored two goals. 

We hurt the match because we wanted to play too narrow and too artistically. Isco played well but he got caught up in doing things that depended on the fine margins.

But we’re not a team that usually gets goals from outside the box and we did here so that should boost morale. We were comfortable, we were convincing at 2-0 and then we got carried away. But the game went well.



In the end it was a comfortable victory for the hosts, albeit not a game they dominated in the way some might have anticipated. After the horror of the World Cup and the stuttering start to this campaign, there did appear early signs of a return to the more fluid, attractive attacking style they had previously attained, although Belarus held firm for large parts of the contest and only fleeting...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - International Football

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