Mr Blue Sky wrote:Hans the German Butler wrote:Spain - I'm fairly speechless at how good that performance was. Where was that level of incisiveness to go along with all the pretty passing during the rest of the tournament?
Hard luck on Italy - but could anyone have lived with Spain on that form?
I know, I think this is why they've suffered a bit of a backlash. We all know those players are capable of champagne football so where has it been all tournament? Still, they have a winning first mentality and you can't criticise them for that - I certainly wouldn't mind England boring their way to tournament win after tournament win.
The scary thing is 3/4 of that team can still be playing in 8 years' time
Funny that Torres won the golden boot - he's hardly played!
Spain finally played the way we all know they can - during the first half anyway. I hope some of the public criticism stung them into action. Good work anyway. Italy couldn't live with them.
The pundits were all being their usual foolish selves by sneering about how anybody could call Spain boring when they play like that. The whole point, you idiotic cocks, was that Spain weren't at all playing like that throughout the tournament. They were passing for the sake of passing with no urgency to attack and shoot when the opportunity arose. I'd probably call it frustrating more than boring, but it undoubtedly made for some dour spectacles - and you can't use the defensiveness of the opposition as an excuse. The final, thankfully, didn't fall into that trap.