Will striker shortcomings cost Spain when it matters most?

Last update on. From the section European ChampionshipSpain scored 11 goals in extra time against Switzerland in the first half, one more than in the 90 minutes.Uefa Euro 2020 Dates on BBC Dates: 11 June-11 Jul Locations: Amsterdam, Baku Budapest, Budapest, Copenhagen Copenhagen, London, Munich Seville, St Petersburg. Live coverage : BBC TV, BBC Radio 5 Live and iPlayer. Also available on the BBC Sport website, app and app. For more information, click hereSpain is in the Euro 2020 semi-finals - but not quite.After surviving a scare against Croatia, they needed to win a penalty shootout in order to beat Switzerland in the quarterfinals.Spain may be the tournament's top scorers, but could their lack of ruthlessness at goal cost them?They scored five of the 12 goals against Slovakia in the group stage. After being given extra time twice, they played more than any other team in the competition. They have only scored once in their three other games.Luis Enrique's team had 28 shots against Switzerland, 10 on target. However, they were wasteful and Unai Simon was awarded man of the match.Spain had an incredible 69 attacks more than any other team at the tournament, which is remarkable considering England has 235 more. They also had more corners than anyone else.They are making their own lives difficult by being so inefficient in front of the goal. It could cost them."We don't have a cutting edge"The question is, why don't they score?Alvaro Morata, Atletico Madrid striker, is leading the line for Spain. However, he has been criticised in the tournament for not taking his chances and even admitting to abuse from his family.He was unable to make a mark at St Petersburg so he was replaced in the quarter-final by Gerard Moreno.Moreno of Villarreal, who scored 23 goals in 33 league games this season, only had six shots when the game started. He also failed to score several important goals, including several missed chances in extra-time. Only Kylian Mbappe (14), from France, has had more shots than Moreno.Guillem Balague, a Spanish football expert, said that "the lesson today is that luck is everything." "When we conceded that goal, I believe we had only one shot at the target in the entire game!" We don't have that cutting edge.Spain has completed 3,515 passes thus far, 1,515 more than any other group. Balague believes that Spain's lack of creativity is also a problem."If Luis Enrique wanted them to continue attacking when they conceded, but the midfield was clear and didn't have penetration."We didn’t manage the game well, and sometimes we don’t feel very brave. It's not possible to plan for a route to the semis in this way... but that's what's happening."And somehow we are here in the semifinals. It seems that we can find ways to win by our mentality and by controlling the ball."I feel a sense of liberation that we have won"Spain's good news is that they have other goals.Six different scorers have been used so far. Only one team has had more Euros scorers (eight).Enrique insists that he supports his strikers.He said, "It's quite clear what Morata [Moreno] and Gerard [Moreno] went through here." "They are both my teammates and I adore them both."Moreno said: "We had lots of chances, yes. We were, as in every other game, the better side."We will correct our many mistakes by working together on the training ground. When you make a mistake, the test is mental strength. Right now, I feel a sense of liberation."If I didn't, I believe the misses might have played on me."