Spain -v- Switzerland, Wed 3PM RTE & BBC HD

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FreeOSCAR wrote: »

Jesus Navas is Spains version of Aaron Lennon, great pace, can beat a player but has for the most part terrible crossing.

Fail.

Scuba Ste

abouttobebanned wrote: »

Spain will beat Chile and they'll beat honduras and the plan will be back in action.

I would have said Spain will beat Switzerland at 3 o clock today and look what happened. The worst part for Spain is that their confidence will have taken a knock after today but if they can rout Honduras they should be buoyed up for the Chile game.

Even with the result they still played some of the best football so far.

Seaneh

gimmick wrote: »

Be that as it may, but he is not a winger, he is a full back.

More of a wing back, really, if you wanna be a pedant.

Denis Iwrin, Corluka, Abidal, they are fuyllbacks.

Alves, Cafu, Ashley Cole, wing backs.

Pepe LeFrits

Send 'em home, Honduras!

Pro. F

Spain were undone by some crappy defending today. It probably won't be the last time. They just need to hope that their attacking football and domination of possession can make up for that flaw. Today it didn't but sometimes shìt happens. The worst thing they could do is let this result knock their self belief.

I think they did alright going forward. They created a lot of chances, just came up against a good keeper on form and centre backs who
were great in the air today.

I don't get all the criticism of Navas. I thought he did fine. He beat his man countless times and did actually put in some good crosses too.

Seaneh wrote: »

More of a wing back, really, if you wanna be a pedant.

Denis Iwrin, Corluka, Abidal, they are fuyllbacks.

Alves, Cafu, Ashley Cole, wing backs.

That's just a group of full backs with differing levels of defensive and attacking abilities tbh. Pedantism about the name of the position is a waste of time imo.

redout

So just wanted to state that Iker has messed up yet again.

His judgement over the past two seasons has diminished beyond belief.

For the regular la liga followers will know he has become a liability in this aspect of his game.

He makes these errors in judgement that are akin to a young rookie keeper (Sometimes akin to a madman!) and not the World Class keeper he is - I literally havent a clue what has happened to him.

Only two weeks back in the warmup with Arabia he was at it again which allowed the Saudi's to score and had the media at it.

Todays decision to slide in with his feet to challenge for a ball several yards inside his own box was nothing short of moronic.

Glad to see the Spanish media have also commented on it but I am more worried about him doing it again.

I think if Mourinho had any balls he should buy a good keeper over the summer and give him some proper competition as I feel he has gotten himself into a comfort zone very similar to Raul did.

K4t

newballsplease wrote: »

Navas was shocking when he came on. Even his corner in the last miute couldnt clear the first man. He must hav had at least 7-10 opportunities to deliver a good ball from a cross into the box and failed each time.

He did alright.

Reminded me of Nani a bit. He spent too long waiting to cross the ball in which slowed up the play and allowed the Swiss defence to organise itself. Most of the balls he did send into the box were easily dealt with by the Swiss defence as the Spanish players didn't know when the ball was coming or where it was going specifically.

Villa and Torres need to up their games big time if Spain want to progress to the knock-out stages. Simple as. I hope that they do.:)

Dave!

Jayzus some result

Stayed up to watch it but fell asleep at half time

D'Agger

redout wrote: »

So just wanted to state that Iker has messed up yet again.

His judgement over the past two seasons has diminished beyond belief.

For the regular la liga followers will know he has become a liability in this aspect of his game.

He makes these errors in judgement that are akin to a young rookie keeper (Sometimes akin to a madman!) and not the World Class keeper he is - I literally havent a clue what has happened to him.

Only two weeks back in the warmup with Arabia he was at it again which allowed the Saudi's to score and had the media at it.

Todays decision to slide in with his feet to challenge for a ball several yards inside his own box was nothing short of moronic.

Agreed - I'm obviously biased as a Liverpool fan, but I thought, were it not for Iker being captain, Reinas form would last season would've won him the no.1 jersey tbh

CorkMan

^I agree, that error agaisnt Saudu Arabia was crap. He is a shot shopper supreme (when they can possibly be saved) but that is only once every couple of games.

But if Reina came in he, he might not be able to command the area well as Casillas has 104 caps and the defence are well used to his commands and influence.

Valdes is up for it too, who won the Zamora trophy last 2 seasons in La Liga. (the trophy for goalie conceding least goals average per game played)

Dublin_Gunner

I have severe mixed emotions at this result.

I was really hoping for some good Spanish attacking football, and was left disappointed.

However, somehow I managed to draw Switzerland & Uruguay in my work WC sweep... so happy enough with the two games lol