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Manchester United’s David de Gea turned into dropped from the Spain squad on Friday, with Brentford goalkeeper David Raya a shock inclusion by coach Luis Enrique. De Gea has now not carried out for Spain since October 2020 nonetheless he turned into in the previous squad in November and has been in ideal fetch for United this season.
Luis Enrique will occupy doubts about De Gea’s distribution in his system and it turned into notable he praised that aspect of Raya’s recreation in a press conference on Friday.
“He has been doing very smartly for a extraordinarily very long time and I of course want to gape him in the context of the national crew,” acknowledged Luis Enrique.
“I occupy he has the profile to be to take into accounta good goalkeeper for the national crew, because of of his quality, his skill to administer any recreation arena with the ball at his feet and to dominate, which is something our crew’s goalkeeper does. Potentially it is a shock for lots of folks, now not for us.”
Barcelona midfielder Pedri, Chelsea left-abet Marcos Alonso and Atletico Madrid winger Marcos Llorente all returned.
Sergio Busquets turned into overlooked, despite the undeniable truth that Luis Enrique acknowledged the 33-year-extinct is being rested as a result of the amount of minutes he has carried out for Barca this season.
“I want to occupy basically the most easy Busquets in June and I with out a doubt occupy made up our minds that he ought to occupy some days off. He is having a spectacular season,” acknowledged Luis Enrique.
Spain play two friendlies over the upcoming global smash, against Albania on March 26 and Iceland on March 29.
Spain squad
Goalkeepers: Unai Simon (Athletic Bilbao), Robert Sanchez (Brighton), David Raya (Brentford).
Defenders: Marcos Alonso (Chelsea), Jordi Alba (Barcelona), Eric Garcia (Barcelona), Aymeric Laporte (Manchester City), Pau Torres (Villarreal), Diego Llorente (Leeds), Cesar Azpilicueta (Chelsea), Dani Carvajal (Proper Madrid).
Midfielders: Rodrigo Hernandez (Manchester City), Koke (Atletico Madrid), Marcos Llorente (Atletico Madrid), Pedri (Barcelona), Gavi (Barcelona), Carlos Soler (Valencia)
Promoted
Forwards: Dani Olmo (Leipzig), Pablo Sarabia (Wearing Lisbon), Alvaro Morata (Juventus), Raul de Tomas (Espanyol), Ferran Torres (Barcelona), Yeremy Pino (Villarreal).
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