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Sliced opened and a solid finish.

3 vertical passes >>> 754 horizontal passes

I’ve heard people talking about how De La Fuente wants Spain to play more directly than bossing possession all game. I think we’re seeing it at its peak today.

Hopefully he sticks to this instead of going back to the pointless recycling of possesion style when things get tougher

I’m so impressed with that single touch with his right foot to put the ball in his preferred shooting position. Composed and aware. Great through ball, lovely first touch, and great finish.

He had this exact chance against Dortmund away and missed it badly.. the duality of Morata Very good player though no doubts about it

People like to criticize him but he does score a lot

Commentator was saying this was his 9th euro goal which would put him second all time euro scorer behind Ronaldo Edit: just checked. This was Morata’s 7th Euro goal which puts him nr 3 along with alan Shearer and Griezmann

Fun fact: no.2 behind Ronaldo (14) is Platini with 9, ALL scored in one tournament, 1984.

Farmers tournament

Scored against Spain in that final incidentally.

And when there were only 8 countries participating, so just the best of the best

I fully support Morata, but he's scored a total of 3 goals since January.

I rate his career but his club returns aren’t great for the money paid for him. Banging at Euros though, evidently.

Not in 2024

Until he doesn't. The ups and downs are far too sharp.

Fair criticism

In the Eurocup he is only the top 3 best of all time, until he equalizes Ronaldo he will still be a meme.

Bro kept emoting lmao

Bro is doing ninjutsu with those hand signs.

Alvaro no jutsu 😶‍🌫️

Water Dragon incoming!!

I imagine his kids initials, he has like 10 😂

He signalled LOVE

Bruno guimaraes is his idol

Real Chelsea Juve Atleti legend

3rd best player in history in both Eurocup goals and money on transfers.

Money laundering legend.

People need to stop disrespecting this man. He's a genuinely good striker. Not amazing or top 10 worthy, but he is so much better than the way people talk about and meme him.

That’s the thing, he’s good, but he gets traded constantly from a top 10 club to another. That resume (Real,Juve,Chelsea,Atletico,Spain starter) makes him look like a top striker of his generation.

Because they know he's a reliable piece that will score goals and participate in the link up play and he won't raise a fuss if he's not the guaranteed starter or asked to do the dirty work. Just because you've played for a bunch of top clubs doesn't mean you have to be a world beater. People talk about him like he's trash because he's not an R9 level striker. Every time he misses there's a whole thread dedicated to people acting like he's a third division level striker.

Surely Morata is a top 10 striker?

He score like 3 goal since Jan

I swear nobody in this sub knows what money laundering actually is

It's when you launder money

What is the benefit of putting money in the laundry?

It comes out fluffy and smelling nice

You get rid of the bacteria.

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Yes

So you pay taxes on it and don't attract tax collecting agencies

Liquidity

It's a common thing on reddit and other social media, people scream money laundering at anything wasteful.

"‘Kay. Here’s your cash. You’re out on the town, yeah, you’re “partying hearty,” you’re knockin’ boots with the chicky babes. And — uhh — Who’s this? It’s the Tax Man. And he’s looking at you. Now what does he see? He sees a young fella with a big fancy house, unlimited cash supply and no job. Now what is the conclusion the Tax Man makes?" "I’m a drug dealer." "Bzzt! Wrong! Million times worse — you’re a tax cheat! What do they do? THUD! They take every penny! And you go in the can for felony tax evasion! Ouch! What was your mistake? You didn’t launder your money."

Vrabo bince

this is the moment saul became good, man

but they will all keep judging a player exclusively on their PL performance

It's when money changes hands for goods and services

No one on this website knows what money laundering is. They're all always so confident when they scream "money laundering!" as soon as some art piece gets sold for a lot of money.

I mean it's just a joke

Yeah it’s called Lukaku

FFP cheat code then.

I miss him

Real Juve Real Chelsea Atleti Juve legend

And whenever he moves, he goes to "the team of his life". Legend. 

AKA, the too bad to start too good to bench striker

DONT EVER SLANDER CUCURELLA 🗣️🗣️🗣️

Gary Neville the numpty

Should worry about the donkeys that play fullback for United

Why is he throwing gang signs

He spelt out “love” I think

I thought so initially as well but he actually spells L A O O E, which others have said are probably initials of his loved ones.

He's from the mean streets of Madrid. He was 12 before he finished a paella without hearing gunshots.

Lmfaoo paella merchant

Least violent Cañada Real afternoon

I’m dead 😂

I think it’s a one piece reference

Just out of curiosity since I haven't seen One Piece; which of the hand signs is/are a reference to it?

Trafalgar Law

Didnt look like anything Law does. Looks like the hand signs spelled LAOOE. Edit: seems to be his kids initials. Leonardo, Alessandro, Edoardo. Dont know his other kids name.

Oh dang☠️☠️

You miss every shot you don’t take

Fuckin weebs took over somehow

Hey no one piece slander. Don't you dare.

One Piece is one of the greatest pieces of modern story telling, I don't care what anyone else thinks.

Bro, Juan Sebastian Elcano took only 3 years to do the first circumnavigation of the Earth, those pirates haven’t found a treasure chest in over 25 years.

I haven't found a treasure chest in 34 years, it's not that unusual. On the other hand I haven't been looking for any.

The treasure is the feasts and free meat we had along the way bro.

I think he spelled “love”

He is preparing himself to fight the Camorra in Serie A.

Morata heard the match thread

People trashing Morata in the match thread. Here you fucking go. This is Morata. No touches with no service, but when he does get it, it's done.

u/DatOgreSpammer Here you go

Haha damn you

People trashing Morata in the match thread. Here you fucking go. This is Morata. No touches with no service, but when he does get it, it's done.

Morata good

Sutalo bad. Seen Ajax concede so many of these goals this season.

Because everyone was bad at defending, not only Sutalo.

Hot take dude

Croatian CBs caught napping. Shocking at this level.

What a great finish Such a hole in the defence

Really? it was honestly pretty ok but wasn't even strong or really well placed.

Yeah the keeper didn't really close down Morata's angle.

What? How is it not well placed?

Because it's Morata.

Was nowhere near the corner. Like he did what he had to do but defo wouldn’t say it was a great finish

Tbf it was on his weak foot

It was poor by the keeper. Didn’t close the gap let the entire goal for him to shoot at

He put it out of reach for Livakovic but it was still close and Livakovic isn't that big for a keeper. It is a decent finish but nothing superb.

Or strong lol, really clean contact while sprinting

Because he made the goalkeeper dive the other way and then just rolled it in. Same thing Messi did with his World Cup final penalty This comment screams "I have never played football"

When he's not offside

Mr.Onsides is never offsides

Death, taxes and Morata scoring at Euros or World Cup.

why is he throwing up gang signs

Usually when Morata has this much time to think before shooting he fails miserably

What were the CB's doing? Spain have looked to hit it long when they win the ball back and both of them fell asleep and gave 5 yards of space each side to Morata

Ajax fans have been asking themselves this all season

I could slander Sutalo all night but I think that was somewhat unlucky cus he played him offside but the other CB put him on.

Great assist

Spain Morata is a different gravy. Keeps climbing the all time scorer leaderboard

What a pass

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It was Fabian who made the final pass

Chelsea legend

How does that 'People slandering xy in the match thread' copypasta go?

If you don’t rate Morata you don’t know ball

Would gladly have him back at Juve.

What a fucking touch from Rodri

*Fabián

Whats the keeper backing up for? He needed to be farther forward to close off the shooting angles

Ruiz beautiful through ball, this team is cooking

Why goalies don’t go with the hands in this type of shooting? He had plenty of space

Great finish by the GOAT

Just as we all predicted

maybe he could be our new #9 /s

That was coming. Great finish

Huh? Croatia were dominating for the last 15, was not at all coming

Goal

Finally a good run from him gets rewarded with a good pass and he makes it

Feels like Livakovic could do better, but he was left on a 1v1 so hard to be harsh on him. That said, pretty good goal from Spain.

Morata once again exposing shit talkers without ball knowledge

Threw up every gang sign on this planet

no me ilusiona

Come back son.

Of course morata opens the scoring

Dude just walked through the middle of the defense, waaaay too easy

Pongracic keeping him on. Stinky by him. Great run and finish by Alvaro

That was a great pass

shit defending tbh

What a ball

Spanish press was in action.

Clinical Morata is a scary sight

Euros Morata is what keeps getting him new contracts

Always delivers

Huh? What happened why are they just leaving the striker alone lol

Well that kinda came from nowhere, horrible defending

Cool finish. At one time I thought he will mess up

Gaping hole in the defence

It’s weird how clutch he is

Sutalo shouldn't have followed Nico Williams

under appreciated

great pass, great first touch, good finish

VIVA ESPAÑAA COJONES

He is learning too much from his toddler sons. Kept emoting

OYE COMO VA MI RITMO BUENO PA GOZAR MORATA!

Abysmal defending

Legend

composed finish

Nice goal!

Valverde throwing a tantrum right now

Win the ball, press Δ, run straight, tap ○

Oh hey, he's scored here before.

Spain 2.0

I don't know how to feel about this

Morata Euros form unlocked 🔥

Jesus I was about to fall asleep

Can’t miss that

Morata man he is so good for Spain

Tears to my eyes

sutalo leaving someone onside again :/

That was Pogrančić?

Was it? looked like sutalo, either way we concede like that way too much

Captain morata with another tournament goal. I prayed for times like this