![]() Unai Simón looks at the ball in Spain’s net after conceding the ludicrous own goal which gave Croatia an early lead in the last-16 match. After something like what happened to Unai it’s even more important.” “The important thing is to get back up again because things happen in football. ![]() “Unai has a very strong mentality: he’s ambitious but calm, too,” Busquets said. “How do you support someone in a situation like that?” said Luis Rubiales, the president of the Spanish Football Federation. When the equaliser was scored by Pablo Sarabia there was a dash to the corner, but there was also a turn to the keeper, the moment shared with him, his relief made theirs too. ![]() When he came to clear a through ball soon after, Spain’s coach leapt up and applauded as if a goal had been scored or an amazing save made, which it hadn’t. Standing there alone in the sunshine, Simón was especially exposed so they did what they could to see him through. Luis Enrique later admitted that Spain had entered “a state of shock”. After that goal Croatia smelled blood, grasping for the opportunity to end it, to push Simón and his teammates over the edge. Which was easy enough to say after the match, victory secured and redemption complete, but they had demonstrated that during the game too. “We’re all with Unai,” insisted the captain, Sergio Busquets. As Simón and De Gea ducked into the tunnel to the dressing room, teammates and staff were waiting for them. Now they were determined that it would be only a moment, not their fate. It was so quick, so unexpected, so frankly silly that some of Spain’s players hadn’t even seen it, their eyes, like the goalkeeper’s, already on the next move. Spain had equalised against Croatia, a lifeline for all of them, but Simón had made the kind of mistake that could have put them out and one that might never go away, feeding a million memes and a generation of jokes the type of error that he and De Gea knew can sink a team and sink a man too.Ī moment was all it took for Pedri’s back pass to slip past Simón’s foot and into the net, at 44 metres the longest own goal scored at a major tournament. Instead of turning right, the Manchester United goalkeeper made his way across the pitch to meet Unai Simón and accompany him on the long walk to the dressing room. We don't know exactly how long.When the half-time whistle went most of Spain’s players headed towards the tunnel in the northern corner of Parken but David de Gea went in the other direction. A little chance we can try without but all experts say surgery will be the best for the long term and that means he's out for a while. In his pre-match press conference he said: "Little bit, I think the decision will go towards surgery. ![]() "We'll see how it is, see how it settles down and hopefully he's good for his club as quickly as possible and he's ready to help us in November."īefore Liverpool's Merseyside derby clash with Everton once the international games had finished, Klopp revealed Robertson is likely to have surgery on his shoulder and be sidelined for a chunk of time. Always seems to happen when you lose one player in a position: we lose Kieran on the left side and then Andy's picked up a shoulder injury. We'll have a look, obviously go back to his club. Scotland boss Steve Clarke said after the game: "Obviously he's hurt his shoulder. It's feared Robertson may have dislocated his shoulder under the impact of the Spain goalkeeper, a nasty injury that is not a quick fix. Robertson was immediately substituted and looked in significant discomfort as he headed into the dressing room. Liverpool's number 26 left the pitch at Estadio de La Cartuja using his shirt as a sling for his right arm after he was landed on by Unai Simon. Andy Robertson felt the force of Unai Simon on Thursday evening / Soccrates Images/GettyImages ![]()
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