Spain World Cup thread.

Spain World Cup thread.

With calss from Casillas to Villa they must start as one of the favourites; although it is difficult to back them too much given thier England-like records at tournaments like these. With Torres spending half the season out for Liverpool, he should be peaking nicely for the World Cup, too...

Torres = out of sorts like liverpool (incoming debate) Shogan2009-11-18 17:19:35

Torres > Villa. Torres is class. He is the best striker in the world. You could see in the Euro's, once they put Fabregas behind him, rather than alongside Villa, he started to play. Villa is a more "Spanish striker", whereas Torres is a classic English centre-forward.

Potentially. Small, skillful little player. Very technically gifted. Will play a large part in the national side's hopes.

youre talking about villa right could look good at somewhere like arsenal if they are willing to fork out the money

Yip. Yeah, I guess so. He's getting old now......

or he could terrorise defences and really boost arsenal but not against the solid back four of chelsea then hed get pushed around

Shawcross would absolutely maul him!

If Spain have everyone fit and ready for the WC, they'll be number 1 favourites.

Fantastic side that plays a truly beautiful game.

They had 'one of those days' against the US.

Spain (ESP)StatisticsUSA (USA)29Shots98Shots on goal213Fouls Committed917Corner kicks3
Stats from that game they lost 2-0

Why couldn't they have had "one of those days" against us???

Spain > Portugal.

Significantly so.

Villa > Torres. Look at their international records

Go away

Are you watching the game? This will stay 0-0 if they keep playing until Xmas.

Good enough for me

This is a quiet thread cos most people actually like Spain....

No it is just we are not childish and go around every other thread spreading hate and trolling.

But this is too quiet so I'd rather go to other threads; albeit to actually have conversations.

...Puyol and Marchena aren't that tall, weakness maybe... and Albiol isn't that good.

Yeah. Spanish set piece, both attacking and defending, is generally pretty poor. But Pique is a f**king monster!

and we have Cesc. Cesc is the shiznitz. Ahhhhhhhhh Spain, how I wish I was spanish. I'd be better at football, at woman, and at looking pretty.

Puyol and Pique were immense in El Clasico today, as well as Xavi and Iniesta bossing the place. Alonso and Albiol didn't look so flash, Raul barely got any time, with Casillas its naturally a given that he plays well. Arbeloa didn't do very well. Ramos looked okay, although it wasn't a natural game from him. Good signs for the Spaniards... Top performances from some key players.

Yea but could they do the old All blacks and play really well before then choke?

Didn't choke at the Euro, but they did set out to win the Confeds Cup and that didn't go quite as planned.

Yea thats what im meaning have a really good build up. Peaking too early and then failing at WC

Maybe. Mind you, they'll have a peaking Fernando Torres cos he'll be out half the season and come right for the World Cup.

Gotta be happy with that group! Nobody should be able to match us at all. Fully expect to power through this group. We could play our second team and we'd make it. Still, wouldn't want to take any risks and its a shame that we won't get a real test especially in the group. Oh well. Viva Espana!

Best draw of the seeds for Spain I reckon. For me this is the most straightforward to predict: Spain and Chile to go through.

Spain should win the group, but think it'll be an almighty scramble for the second.

that is one piss easy group for spainDowney262009-12-07 07:13:38

Can't see it happening, but i think Reina is starting to challenge Casillas for the number 1 jersey.