While Luis Enrique is the last person who will be getting carried away by the scoreline given the poverty of the opposition, this was some start to the tournament for a country who had last won their opening game back in 2006.įor a period, it looked like Spain might threaten the biggest winning margin in a World Cup match (nine goals) but the record books were instead rewritten in the 71st minute when Gavi became his country’s youngest scorer in the 92-year history of the competition.
Indeed, at times you had to remind yourself they were both still only teenagers. Red shirts shimmered and shone all over the pitch but none quite like the last two recipients of the prestigious Golden Ball trophy. But while Pedri adds a dreamy, laid back quality to proceedings, almost like it all comes too easily,` Gavi is the firestarter, instigator of Spain’s press and so much more in between, and with their Barcelona team-mate Busquets anchoring things, La Roja’s midfield has a formidable feel to it. Perhaps if they did not complement each other so well the effect would not be quite as hypnotic. PG and PG, then, although to be honest they should have come with an X-rated certificate such were the horrors to which they subjected Costa Rica.Ĭhoosing between the Barcelona pair is pointless because Gavi and Pedri, as they are better known, are best enjoyed in perfect tandem, an intoxicating blend of youthful exuberance and carefree cool with a combined age only three years greater than the graceful senior midfield sentry, Sergio Busquets, beside them. One is called Pablo Gavira the other goes by the name Pedri Gonzalez.
One looks like the sort who considers bleep tests fun the other could have drifted in straight off the beach. One has been labelled an “erupting volcano” the other has been known to turn up for games with his kit in a carrier bag.
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