FIFA World Cup 2014 - GROUP B [Spain, Netherlands, Chile, Australia - 13/18/23 June] **spoilers**
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no world cup for the tapas heads.
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Now that was a cracking game. Soddding typical ain't it though? I swapped out Robben for Silva at the last minute on my WC fantasy football team.
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I'd go further and say that you probably won't see a more entertaining/satisfying game than that for the rest of the competition!
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Best match seen in ages! Fantastic, LOLZ@casillas
Calling your girlfriend "Spain" because she kicks off every 5 minutes...
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Spain is all about Xavi, he has definitely dropped a couple of levels in the last couple of years and now Spain are struggling to play football now.
Iniesta has dropped a few levels as well and i think playing both of them tonight was a mistake on Del Bosque's part.
Dont get me started on Casillas and Torres, the writing was on the wall in the CL final when Casillas gifted Atletico the first goal. He hasn't played enough games to warrant starting for Spain.
Torres has been useless for 4 years now he has no right to even be in Brazil never mind playing in the games.
Iniesta has dropped a few levels as well and i think playing both of them tonight was a mistake on Del Bosque's part.
Dont get me started on Casillas and Torres, the writing was on the wall in the CL final when Casillas gifted Atletico the first goal. He hasn't played enough games to warrant starting for Spain.
Torres has been useless for 4 years now he has no right to even be in Brazil never mind playing in the games.
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I think that has raised my excitement for the world cup, the first two games were a bit crap frankly, no really good goals, bitty play, lots of cheating, some poor decisions, but just not exciting football. That really was just brilliant to watch.
The more I think about it, the more I think Xavi just did nothing, there is this thing where if players are great, at international level managers are very VERY slow to stop playing them. England with the older players for donkeys years. I think a result like this could easily be the push a manager needs(and probably the fans not minding) to drop Casillas, Xavi, Alonso, all three being terrible. Iniesta barely did anything, Costa.... very difficult, he cheated for the penalty and tried to headbutt someone so scummy but I don't know how bad he was as he got very little in the way of delivery.
Busquets is looking increasingly less good without Xavi basically being brilliant in midfield to help defend there. Martinez/Koke/Fabregas midfield three would off a hell of a lot of strength, but with creativity and support getting forward.
The more I think about it, the more I think Xavi just did nothing, there is this thing where if players are great, at international level managers are very VERY slow to stop playing them. England with the older players for donkeys years. I think a result like this could easily be the push a manager needs(and probably the fans not minding) to drop Casillas, Xavi, Alonso, all three being terrible. Iniesta barely did anything, Costa.... very difficult, he cheated for the penalty and tried to headbutt someone so scummy but I don't know how bad he was as he got very little in the way of delivery.
Busquets is looking increasingly less good without Xavi basically being brilliant in midfield to help defend there. Martinez/Koke/Fabregas midfield three would off a hell of a lot of strength, but with creativity and support getting forward.
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Won me over 30 quid, happy with that! Fantastic game, hope we get some more like it.