🗞️ Monday's front pages: Spain fall just short of Nations League glory
Today, the Spanish press is abuzz with Carlos Alcaraz's impressive comeback to win Roland Garros, but also looks with sadness at Spain's lost Nations League final.
"The crown slips away", "eleven meters from the Nations" or "painful learning" are some of the headlines about the final won by Portugal.
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