I have a feeling that they will end up as runner up for a third time in the next competition, their "Its coming home" documentary might surpass tom holland's spiderman trilogy Homecoming>Far From Home>No Way Home 😂😂
As a Croatian, I have always been a fan of Dani Olmo since he started playing for Dinamo Zagreb. I am so happy to see him shine on such a big stage, in my opinion he is the player of the tournament. Top, top, performance all around
I agree, but I would find it very difficult to have to pick just one player. These guys played like a team and they all had moments of brilliance in their respective roles.
Spain looked different from the first group game. The accuracy, speed, and fluidity of their backline passes had been a whole level up from all the other teams. When they play with purpose like they do in this tournament, they are deadly
@DoomsdaySlayer He scored the second most goals in qualifiers and produced tons of xG in the tournament. Obviously, him failing to capitalise in the actual tournament proves him to be an underperformer, but we've seen players provide with the role I have outlined. Besides, who do you suggest to bring into the squad in his place?
@@browhat6935 scoring against Luxembourg serves absolutely no purpose when you don’t perform in tournaments. He’s been mediocre in these last few years and he can’t seem to accept that.
This de la Fuente, man! So calm, collected. Well done to the coach for setting up this Spain team to victory! I am a German National Team fan through and through but looking forward to the Spanish National Team, too! Congratulations!
@@enelrahcreivaj Wow, thanks. I was pretty mad at Germany supporters booing Cucurella like that, one hell of a talented and hardworking player, who does not referee matches, just plays.
@@phanthomzm there was an interview where he said “do the shit that people don’t see” in reference to how he may not always be the top scorer but his game is more on the tactical side making room for teammates and making sure as a striker you still have to put a defensive shift in
Joselu's career: 2015-2019:flop in Premier league(Stoke, Newcastle) 2022:relegated 2023:relegated 2024:Won La Liga, Champions league and European championship
i love how you cut 7,8 years of his career at the start.... i get a point of this comment, but generally not everything is about EPL and the stint of a player in EPL etc. EPL is just another league and players play in a whole bunch of different leagues as part of their career... someone was saying "oh Xhaka is an arsneal reject" whereas he is basically a former gladbach player who then played for arsenal for a few years and now he is playing for leverkusen... dont think arsenal fans were thinking of Ozil and Alexis as Real and Barca rejects....
The Spain team was really joy to watch. De la Fuente made fantastic job to unite players and they were fighting for each other. He also let all players to play apart from 3rd choice goalkeeper, so nobody felt left out.
It's the best feeling when the most attractive playing team actually lifts the trophy ! Football has won ! Being in the group of death and still winning all 7 matches before penalties, that's pretty insane !
Not really,in the final, England looked more tactically aware and confident, it's just Southgate tactical bankruptcy that cost England, the same mistake he made vs Italy at the last euro,he should have started palmer and that striker who scored that last minute goal vs dutch,he doesn't learn
morata played in this tourney like Giroud did for france in wc 2018. no goals, but still very important in the way he provides a target man up top who can link up and create space for their other dangerous attackers.
1- Spain 2- Germany 3- France 4- Austria/England/Turkey... Top three are clear in my opinion, and the fact Spain beat the second best, then the third best then the luckiest ones who didn't have to play anyone speaks about the great team, and the coaching done by Spain, looking forward to seeing them hopefully in my hometown of Miami in two years!
It's been so frustrating as a Spanish fan to watch a team of great individuals not get it done as a team when it counted. De la Fuente has done what the big name managers like Luis Enrique were not. It's great to see the national team doing what Pep did a long time ago and modernizing the tiki taka game with counterpressing and fast wingers. What's scary is that Spain is still a pretty young unit, and were without Gavi, Balde, and Pedri for this tournament.
Hey Adrian, enjoyed your coverage of the competition. Enjoy your break and I'll see you next season. Hoping for more watch alongs with you, those are always fun.
I think Bellingham is just fine with winning the UCL in his first Real season and having the second best start to a La Liga season for Real behind Ronaldo 😭 Kane is the real one you should be going after. Dude cursed his entire country
@1997lordofdoom you're right, Jude won't care about winning his home country their first ever Euro trophy cause he won a CL with a team that doesn't even need him to win it 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
Spain keeps getting compared to the 2008-2012 squad and fair enough. But I really do think in 5-10 years in hindsight, we’ll see how great this Spanish team really is. It’s a young team and there careers are far far from over. We’ll see how this plays out.
08 was very different from 10/12. 08 was exciting with tricky runners.10/12 was just boring sideways passing. This sidenis more like 08. Much more thrilling to watch. Glad they won.
@@Bread_Garlichouse I would hardly call 2012 boring sideways passing. Watch the Italy game again and it’s literally 4 goals of immaculate vertical passes from xavi and iniesta.
@@elpresidente1990 Correct, they raised their game in 2012. But 2010 was truly boring. 2012 was still possession-heavy so less exciting than the teams of the 2 Luises (Aragones in 2008, de la Fuente in 2024) which shone with great variety in their attacking play.
People judge players by prestige . Once they are not playing the epl .they're not that good as the epl players. Football is played on the pitch and spain outplayed every single team . Which means their players are better than many may think. It's either you good or not .
The schadenfreude of seeing English fans getting all hype up before the final and then seeing them getting disappointed again by their national team is just *chef kiss*.
England is fortunate that their goalkeeper had a good game? Do you realise how stupid that sounds? ‘Spain were fortunate because Unai Simon and Dani Olmo blocked England’s headed attempts off the line’ See how dumb that sounds?
@@maciejbala477 kane won nothing with this Bayern team that had won 11 cups in a row against a team that got dismantled by a crap Atalanta team premier league have weak defences because whenever he plays against a good defence he is a pile of shit whereas morata has scored against big teams and helped his team win things even in that Chelsea team he got a fa cup. And he's scored in finals for juve. He is technically a way better footballer kane is a good striker with that English overrated dust on him. They are of a similar age and morata looked like he was 20 years younger then kane
I have seen morata single handedly rip teams apart score a goal or assist or make the play last euros against Italy who where on fire or when he ripped the treble winning Bayern team with juve I have never seen kane do something close to that level whats the point if you score goals against crap opponents and yet never win anything spurs bottled the league to Leicester and that's just facts and Liverpool in the UCL and kane disappears in finals
@@daaljones9584your braindead understanding of football is blatant by your diminishing both Bayer Leverkusen and Atalanta. Please starting following cricket. Not because I have anything against cricket, it's just so someone else will have to bear yout stupid opinions in some other sport at your choice as football is apparently not your thing.
Spain's next-gen players - Nico, Lamine, Pedri, Gavi, Balde, Cubersi, Fermin, and Font (maybe). All are still under 23. They can dominate for the next ten years if everything goes to plan.
And there are more like Barrios, Omorodion, Baena, Guiu... It's going to be a few fun years to see how things pan out and if/how many can develop to world class level
Angry at how bad England played in the tournament. Not taking anything away from Spain though. England might never have a team this good again for awhile.
@@mattholmes3707Are they really all that though? On paper maybe behind Spain,Argenrina and France. Toss up between them, portugal Brazil and Germany for 3rd. Germany i think will improve and portugal.can shine with a better manager and also when the diva stops overstaying his welcome to stat pad. Anyway, england hopefully will run out of luck with the easy draws and crash out earlier when they meet the first quality side as per usual.
England in the early 2000s had Owen, Beckham, Ferdinand, Scholes, Lampard etc. Going into every tournament, the English media always say, "we have the players", " we have a great squad on paper". It's time to face the reality that perhaps the English definition of "best squad" or "good players" is perhaps not accurate.
Here in Spain we were all quite conscious of the fact that while being the best playing team, it was not a guarantee of success in the final, and that England could have won it. But it was a relief to see the team deserving the title actually winning it.
I didnt understand why they kept Bellingham on, especially after his assist for Palmer. He was jogging, walking, stretching, holding his knees. England were calling for that cross -field ball, Shaw was always open, especially when the ball ends up at Walker after a pass from Saka. It was calling for TAA
of all players that stay too long on the field, you pick Bellingham? dude, he's the best player on the match that day. he also provided last minute assist attempt to watkins (that he blew up). And gave a good defensive display. I hate to bring stats or rating, but look at different rating websites (whoscored, sofascore, etc), and see who's the best rated player.
@@eganburg I seriously question your understanding of the game if you think an atrocious player like Bellingham was the best player of the match. He wasn't even England's best player let alone the best player of the match. All he did was selfishly hog the ball trying to dribble past the opposition like he's Messi because he has no footballing intelligence.
Lets be completely frank here. England has been gifted a rose petal strewn runway to the last two Euro finals and 2018WC semifinals. They had no serious opposition in their bracket, ZERO!!! They are ridiculously overrated by an Englishcentic media. Their league is imho,the best league in the world, but it largely benifits from importing talent from abroad, coaching included. The players if I’m honest are good, but certainly not brilliant, with a few exception like Bellingham( who lets be honest,was shit outside of the brilliant goal) Alexander-Arnold( who was invisible for large parts) Foden( completely underwhelming) They are not as talented as the media would have you believe.
So unoriginal and so deluded. Do you believe that Hojbjerg is a better player than Rice? We can objectively compare their statistics as they play in the same position in the same league. Rice is better. Yet when they play against each other in an international Hojbjerg is far superior. The player of the year in PL was Foden. Cole Palmer the young player. The top scorer in the Bundesliga is Kane. Bellingham is one of the best players in Spain. England have at least 6 champions league winners. Other countries have league 1 or championship level players. Do you see how deluded you are yet? As for coaches. I think it's a major problem that British coaches don't get opportunities at big clubs. Managers like Howe and Dyche have unbelievable lower league achievements. If a German coach brings a team up a few leagues quickly he's hailed as a genius. An English coach does it, well he doesn't have experience in European competition. You can only get that experience one of two ways. Manage abroad or get a job at a big club in England. Received wisdom is weak. Unless you're just trolling in which case get a bit more creative with it please. Put in a bit of effort.
England has a few brilliant individual players but as a squad they are way too overrated. Their striker wasnt in form and their defence and keeper arent the best. Plus the worst coach in the tournament.
@@junaidmohammed280The keeper and defense were good. They had one of the best defenses in the tournament. They wouldn't have made the final without their defense.
Please don't put Foden in the same bracket as Saka for being hard done by. The whole team was reshuffled around just to get Foden into his "best position" and he still did nothing across those 3 matches. He's had a dreadful tournament from day 1, but the insistence of commentators and pundits, and ultimately Southgate, that "he has it in him" and that "the team should be built around him" meant his continued selection. Palmer did more in the handful of minutes he got off the bench, than Foden could do in the entire matches he played. And this is all coming from someone who wanted England to lose - it still pains me how people hype up mediocrity when the reality is staring them right in the face. On a side note, its been a joy watching your daily videos! It became part of my morning routine, watching your videos while having breakfast.
You think Foden's performance was without reason?? It's because they put him as an assistant to Kane LOL tho Foden is a way bigger star than Kane. Both Foden and Bellingham have bigger star status than Kane. It's the exact same thing that happens in the corporate world too!!
Spain deserved the win the most of any team in the euro or, for that matter the copa-they played at a quality beyond everyone else. And I’m not a Spanish supporter or anything like that. Just respect for how they played.
Hi Adrian! Thank you for a great cover of the Euro, as a silent viewer I enjoyed a lot every one of the videos. From Portland and as a dad that can watch the games because Disney+ is always on or I am at work, I was always looking forward to open a beer and for the night recap with your videos
Hey! Just wanted to say a massive thank you for all the heart work you've put in throughout the tournament. Particularly during thr group stages, I really looked forward to your daily recaps. When I look back on Euro 2024, your videos will be one of the things I associate heavily with it. Enjoy your well earned break!
As long as De La Fuente kept this tactic, Spain might end up just like Del Bosque's era, up until something (like Netherlands' 5-1 win in 2014) ended the dynasty.
As much as I wanted it to come home...Spain was the objectively better team, England felt like they slipped through. Felt kind of like this year's NBA Finals, where the clearly better team took care of business relatively easily
Yo Adrian, I would LOVE a deep dive video into De La Fuente’s coaching career. His rise through lower division teams, national youth sides and eventually landing the national team job. He was such an unknown to me when he got the job. And now he’s won the Euros! It really feels very similar to what England did with Southgate (I think he coached their u21s for 3 years before landing the England job), but it’s just worked wonders for this Spanish side
The young wingers unlocked our evolution. They do exactly what is needed to stop being so horizontal as we were in the last tournaments. Great job from De la Fuente, he got the best out of so many players (Carvajal, Laporte, Cucurella, Rodri, Fabian, Olmo, Lamine, Nico...). He puts Southgate to shame in that regard.
I am so thankful Spain won. They are the best and exciting team to watch. I am so glad they won despite the bad officiating! England is freaking lucky to be in the final with Spain.
I'm happy they won and I had my money on them even before the tournament. It's just a bit sour that the quarter final against GER had to be that early and played out the way it did.
The fact that we overlooked poor's Morata & Unai Simon performances makes this team even better... Might be harsh but these two give no sense of security at all..... It was a nice tourney overall. Enjoy your vacation :)
Discussing this final last night with my father, when he asked me who I thought would win the final, my answer was, 'If Spain controls the match, maintains possession for the better part of the match, and attacks proactively then they can win it in regulation 90 minute time. I see a 2-1 win' . And for the most pthat was what happened.
I actualy dont think england was that bad in first half. They were cautious but they had their moments, and spain was having a lot of trouble connecting play specialy because rodri was under a lot of pressure from england, which southgate surely had a hand in. And it was working. But then rodri goes out injured, and spain comes to the 2nd half ready to destroy.
The vast majority of english fans and comments are happy with the result the better team won,we were happy to be in the final andmany supposed better teams were sat at home after bottling it,you've got to be in it to win it spain are a great team deserving champions.🇪🇸⚽🏴👍
I'm happy Spain won. Thought england might pull something out of a hat, especially given that they lost the last final. Losing 2 finals in a row is insane but the best team won, and I'm at peace
Bellingham was a lot like ronaldo this tournament (no hate to cr7) constantly nagging and whining for set pieces and penalties but doing little on the pitch
Of course Spain 🇪🇸 deserved to win Euro 2024.We were clearly the best team throughout the tournament.We won all of our 7 matches,and we showed the World what a dominant European powerhouse football team could do.Spain totally dominated Euro 2024.Vamos La Furia Roja España 🇪🇸⚽️🏆
I knew spain were gona win when I saw them play like barcelona .Barcelona have highest expected goals in 2024 also i feel the storngest team who were second to win was portugal. They had the best defence in euro and i feel of not for penalties they only could have defeated spain in quesrtefinals.
People keep talking about Rodri. And yes Rodri is and has been fantastic. But can we talk about Carvajal this tournament? No, this SEASON?? So underrated. What a player!
Will you cover a review of the Copa America before the start of the new season? the group stages, surprises, disappointments, lack of security and expected outcomes versus actual outcomes?
Really appalled by the stuff that comes out about how England are so talented. Which was the last great game England played? And this disparaging of players coz they don't play for Chelsea and English clubs. The Spanish were better footballers. Period
