Spain reaches to the semifinal of the FIFA U-17 World Cup 2017. The match was full excitement. The flip side to an exceptionally vigilant approach is the over impatience to massacre out any hang about danger at the earliest opportunity. It’s loaded with risk. So when Ferran Torres arid down the right edge, like a swirl of red, Iran’s left back Ahmad Jalabi charged to intersect him. He slid crosswise at Torres like awkward center-backs do when forwards are well past them inside the box.

Here, though, the tackle was uncalled for. Torres had a fair bit of distance to cover, and the mere knowledge that someone is shadowing him would have induced some doubt. “The first 20 minutes we were terrible. We were disorganized and freely let them into attacking positions. The link-up between forwards and midfielders was terrible. And when we were settling down, they scored the goal that changed the match’s tempo,” said Chamanian.

The first goal was so tempo-dictating that the match unraveled into a mere stroll for Spain, and in the end, the scoreline of 3-1, monstrous as it looks now, doesn’t even fully depict the utter ruthlessness, almost a calm serial-killer-like insouciance, they demonstrated. On a slightly luckier day, any of Torres, Ruiz, and Gomez would have ended up with the hat-trick. 

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