Marc Pubill

That header with the last second head, I can't remember who hit it for Espanyol, but it was the last second header from the corner that was won by Oblak saving from Paul Lozano.

It was just a really unfortunate deflection from Pubil.

I mean, Pubil is the one defending this action, and Pubil just really unfortunate to deflect it into Oblak's path.

I'm going to see if we have quotes up on the site yet.

Because I can read those if we do.

Yeah, I think that's great, but it can get him into trouble with some misplaced passes, with just...

I really like Rodri, but I don't think he's at Letty's standard yet.

I would say, though, that this time last year, we were questioning whether Mark Pubil was at Letty's standard.

Um, it...

The defense is so competitive and so good right now that Marc Pubill has been on the bench in the two games since this international break.

Yeah.

And it has...

Vital part of that team.

Yeah.

Uh, s- speaking of defenders signing new contracts, Marc Pubill is apparently set to sign a new contract to-

Yeah

Yeah.

The player that I think you're, you were thinking of from Atletico, just to clear that one up, I think he's, uh, Marc Pubill, right? Is that who you were, that who you were thinking of? 'Cause he's the other one we were, we were kind of being linked with for a while.

Juz, I think you look at these in kind of blocks of games, right? We've talked about this before.

You kind of look at we get through this four games, this four games.

Um, you know, Simeone kinda corrects and then overcorrects, right? We're defending in a 5-3-2/5- 5-2-3 shape, then we defend in a flat 4-4-2 once the initial changes are made.

'Cause the initial changes are Pubil coming on at right back and JD coming on for Lee Kang-in.

Kang-in, who had a couple other bright moments in the first half, but th- this wasn't his best game.

This wasn't Kang-in's best game, and that's okay I think he's probably still nursing something with his ankle.

There you go.

I'm going to keep using him as an example.

Uh, I would like to see Romero and Pubill at center back.

We could do with a rotational right back to rest Girvent at least.

Uh, basically had the license to cover the entire right flank.

I mean, especially in the first half, instead of Pubill as that third center back slash, uh, that wide center back or that, that, even that right back, it was Llorente tucking in as the third center back.

Simeone started doing this last year, with Llorente operating out of possession and, like, i- in the earliest phases of build up as another center back.

Marcos Llorente, man, there's another guy who's played, like, [laughs] who's had, like, six different careers in one at Atleti, and I didn't think this was Marcos' best game.

Yeah, Kev, I agree, and, uh, after spending a, a year with, um, a season with Xolo, obviously, um, he gets to know what Xolo wants from him, and Xolo gets to know the type of player up close, um, Baena is.

And, uh, Kev, uh, um, Pubill, Kev, he started I think Spain's first two international games, played full 90 on both.

That's I think 180 minute.

Yeah, and he scored a goal, Kev, and it's like, uh, Pubill's rise actually last season was like a surprise to me.

It's like he took La Liga by storm.

Started the season not playing, having minutes, and all of a sudden he becomes a key defender for Athletic.

[laughs] Uh, Marcos Llorente field actually retired from the Spanish national team, and, uh, he did well until people were like talk...

I think, sorry, people started talking about the fact that I think he's kind of forming a, his, his, a synergy with, um, with Yamal.

And finally, Lamine Yamal scored two goals and set up another as Spain hammered Croatia four-one on Tuesday in the Nations League in their first home game since lifting the World Cup.

Yamal, nineteen, was joined on the scoresheet by Marc Pubill and Nico Williams as they extended their unbeaten run to forty matches, which includes June's final triumph over Argentina in the United States.

La Roja next play the Czech Republic on Saturday in their group.

Captain Rodri showed off the World Cup trophy before kickoff at the packed stadium in Seville, being handed it by Sevilla legend Jesús Navas, a winner with Spain in twenty ten.

And on that side, Laurentiis started a myth.

He didn't imply that Aleti's best, some of Aleti's best defensive players were on that side Romero, Llorente, Pubil and Juliano and that implies that Aleti will constantly have like numerical superiority when they are in a low block and they have players who can track back and are good at defending transition in case of ball loss and that kind of neutralized Madrid's threat and that was also the place where Kangin operated the most in the first half And it implies that Kangin, yes, our most, let's say, creative player, he plays there.

And obviously, as a creative player here, we have the tendency to lose the ball and he will not be the best to track back.

But if you have Lorente, Giuliano, Pupil on that side, then he covers for Kangin's poor out of position.

And there's obviously more of a trust at the back.

The guys at the back, if we do lose it, they'll deal with it.

Romero will win it back, Pubil, Hanchko, whoever else is there.

Lenormand if he's there, for example.