{"id":1674,"date":"2026-08-20T10:42:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T10:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/?p=1674"},"modified":"2026-08-20T10:42:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T10:42:28","slug":"marc-cucurella-is-underappreciated-chelsea-full-back-praised-by-luis-de-la-fuente-as-spain-boss-not-at-all-worried-about-striker-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/?p=1674","title":{"rendered":"Marc Cucurella is underappreciated! Chelsea full-back praised by Luis de la Fuente as Spain boss &#8216;not at all worried&#8217; about striker position"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body\">\n<div>\n<p>Asked about Cucurella&#8217;s spectacular performance in a post-match press conference, the Spain head coach said: &#8220;I completely agree. Sometimes those up front shine so much that we overlook other positions. This is the case with Cucurella, whom I congratulate on his first goal for the national team. But just as I mentioned Cucu, I could say the same about [Alejandro] Grimaldo or [Alejandro] Balde, who is injured, poor guy, but who is part of this group of players we manage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>De la Fuente also added that he isn&#8217;t worried about missing a proper number nine in his team, adding: &#8220;I&#8217;m not at all worried about this because we have players who can score goals, and plenty of them. At the last European Championship, we broke Spain&#8217;s all-time record for goals in the final stages, and we did it with ten different scorers from all positions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-ng\/lists\/marc-cucurella-underappreciated-chelsea-full-back-luis-de-la-fuente-spain-worried-striker-position\/bltdb5bc19e8cf74153\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asked about Cucurella&#8217;s spectacular performance in a post-match press conference, the Spain head coach said:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}