Álvaro Morata was suddenly away and the noise level rose, a chance to win this game, a shot at redemption. Instead, there was the kind of reaction that could do him even more damage than what went before. Dashing away, clean through, the Juventus striker smashed his effort off the bar. It was the best of three or four chances he had in an improved second half from Spain, but none had been taken and from the stands of the Wanda Metropolitano, a small group of supporters began to chant “Morata, how bad you are!”
The game’s end a moment later, the score 0-0 between Spain and Portugal, was met with whistles. The reaction was extreme, and far from helpful at the end of a match which had been neither sparkling nor awful for Spain. It had not delivered any really definitive conclusions either. It left doubts, and, let it be said, a bitter taste, even if those voicing their discontent were few. You waited all this time to return to a stadium, all this time to send the national team off to the Euros, and you do that?
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