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Those who go out to sea as a way of life say that, in the middle of a storm, a few seconds of calm are the closest thing to happiness. To happiness or peace, which in some cases can even be synonymous. It crosses Spain, the Federation, the team by proximity, a storm of the aúpa, a 'tsunami' that has taken the president ahead and that will take many more things ahead, and that is why the thrashing of this Friday in Tbilisi to Georgia supposes those seconds of calm, of happiness, of peace, pure glory at this moment for the institution. For the team too, which puts the qualification for the European Championship on track in a good way and fixes, in part, the upset of Glasgow, but that, football, today, here, is almost the least. The win is a moment of peace. As in the sea, it will barely last a few seconds, but to the Federation and the team it will seem like hours. [Narration and statistics].

It is not heoricity to win, or even pass over, Georgia, an enthusiastic collective, supported by the 54,000 fans who filled the stadium, and with a superlative player, Kvaratskhelia, but whose talent is lost among the middle of the rest of the team. The Napoli winger did not exist, partly also because Carvajal is in a great moment. It does not mean much to win at home of this team, but as this fragile Spain walks, a night like this comes great. With the Federation in a self-destructive process with an end difficult to intuit, with a coach who does not remove the interim patina and a team without defining, any time like this is welcome.

There was actually no match. From the opening whistle, Spain was infinitely better than its opponent. With an eleven that begins to be recognizable (only three changes, and one of them due to injury) with respect to the final of the League of Nations, the selection appropriated the ball, nothing new, with the variant, grateful, that he used it to attack and attack well. On the outside (that's how the first goal came) but especially inside, with a stellar Fabián Ruiz (that's how the other three goals arrived). Spain was a steamroller and went to the break 0-4 as it could have gone 0-7. After Morata's initial goal, which made three, Fabián was uncovered.

Fabián is a boy to whom Luis Enrique made the cross, to know why, after the match of Croatia in the European Championship. With De la Fuente he has regained prominence and seems to have won the game to Mikel Merino. Breaking from the second line, he tore apart Georgia, for which he was undetectable. He generated the selection a good handful of chances, and unlike other times, he did not concede anything. Throughout the first half, Unai Simon touched the ball only because his centre-backs gave it to him to lean on the exit.

Shortly before the break came the injuries, simultaneous, of Olmo and Asensio. With the match already completely downhill, it was time to see Lamine Yamal, the youngest debutant in the history of the national team (16 years and 57 days). Next to him came Nico Williams, and both saw, along with the rest, the only moments of minimal anxiety of the game, when in a desperate exit, Georgia managed to score its goal after a hubbub in the area. It was a small thing. Within five minutes, Spain's possession had quelled the slightest attempt at rebellion, definitively buried with Morata's third, Nico's and Lamine's, also, of course, the youngest scorer in the history of Spain.

From there to the end, the interest was almost more in the tremendous flood that fell on Tbilisi than in anything else. The storm, the climatological, intensified as the minutes passed, while the other storm, that of the Federation, subsided even for a few seconds.

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