Tottenham star Pedro Porro impresses on national duty
A nasty ACL injury suffered by Real Madrid right-back Dani Carvajal coupled with Pedro Porro’s good form for Tottenham Hotspur has led to the latter receiving call-ups to the Spanish national team over the last couple of international breaks. In October, Porro was called up for the first time in over six months and impressed with his displays over two matches, which led to Luis de la Fuente deciding to count him for a couple of more Nations League clashes.
This time around, Spain came up against Denmark in Copenhagen in their penultimate group stage clash of the Nations League and emerged 2-1 victors, courtesy of goals from Mikel Oyarzabal and Ayoze Perez in either half. The successful result has secured safe passage into the last four of the competition for the newly crowned Euro winners. Pedro Porro started the game and played the full 90 minutes, earning himself an impressive rating of 8.1 on Fotmob.
He was very good on the ball, completing 51 passes out of an attempted 57 and also created two chances when raiding forward. Porro had six passes into the final third and also completed 80% of his long balls. When defending, he gave Albert Gronbaek a hard time as he won 60% of his five attempted tackles and made four clearances. He won five duels, made two interceptions and 13 recoveries to cap off a wonderful individual display which is not a surprise by any means given his work for Tottenham this season.
Pedro Porro has clearly shown that he is a worthy enough successor for Dani Carvajal in Spain’s national setup. Moreover, he is aged just 25 and the base years of his career are yet to come. Apart from the Spurs coaching staff and fans, Real Madrid would also have been impressed by the player’s performance if they had a close eye on him. There have been reports of their interest in Porro as Carvajal’s replacement, so there is every reason to think his display against Denmark was under the magnifying class.
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Spain’s next UEFA Nations League game is against Tenerife against Switzerland. With not much to play for in the final group game, Ange Postecoglou will hope that Pedro Porro is afforded some much-needed rest from the fixture. It would equip him to stay fully fit for next weekend’s Premier League clash against Manchester City, in which the Citizens will come at Spurs in full flow as they look to overcome their run of four straight defeats, so the Lilywhites will need Porro to be at his freshest and best version.
