Quote Originally Posted by djfase View Post
Spain for all their so called 'beautiful football' didnt exactly score for fun did they? And 1 up front?
Brazil 2014 in 4 years. I think they won't be playing with 1 up front. Different fixture different ballgame.

Defenses win championships. Spain allowed 2 goals, 1 swiss and 1 from Chile, I know Chile played really well and they showed their strength scoring against this Spain with 10 men. Casillas and Puyol.

They are on a 50 of 55 games winning streak. It's interesting also that Spain changed coaches and won with 2 different ones. The players alone posses quality. One of those 5 loses is against the USA, that's why I knew that the USA is a contender.

And I agree, Spain - Brazil final would have been fitting.

With pressure on them as the European champions, Spain delivered. I think they didn't score more goals because of the same reason many teams went out, because it is a tough tournament with bad officiating making it tougher.



Spain are worthy champions. I would like them to play Argentina, Brazil, Germany,

As for that 1 up front point, after Fabregas, Torres and Navas came into the game Spain attacked with 3-4 up front. In that build up play to the goal Torres and Fabregas were involved before Iniesta got the ball and Navas before that. Iniesta continued the build-up with a back heal before entering the box and scoring. 4 men for a superb volley finish to end the World Cup.

The way he passed to himself and finished was pure football and Casillas defending with his foot to stop the ball from going in the net. Pure football.
Futbol!

In the Holland team only Sneijder was at a world class level.

At the end of the day Spain scored an undisallowable goal.
If Spain's play can be called tika-taka then Xavi is the metronome.

Players who weren't in the Spanish winning squad in SA :

Santi Cazorla
Albert Riera
Marcos Senna
Joaquin

with quality subs Spain sealed the deal the Netherlands couldn't answer and when Kuyt and van Bronkhorst were out of the game Spain become much stronger with 11 men.