I wonder whats going on with the Spaniard Midfield, aside from Silva and maybe Iniesta ( Vidal keep him in his pocket ) none of them trying to created some goal scoring opportunity, they just stand there like a ****ing statue and let the Chilean cakewalk every last one of them,
And there is the useless forward
Costa is not that bad, the dude actually make some good run and tried to shake off his mark, and yet VDB decided to sub him for Torres ? Really ? I mean Torres ? again ? dude not supposed to be in the team to begin with !! that guy is not even making some move while Silva run his ass to get the ball forward, its like he's hoping for some kind of miracle that the Chilean defender will just roll over and let him pass, They have Villa in the bench for fck sake, that's their all time top scorer and he's having a blast with Atletico this season, and he played Torres instead,
The substitution is just Awful, in time of need you need player with experience, instead VDB put Koke a young lad playing his 1st big tournament for Spain when his team in the verge of elimination ( Genius ) Instead off Fabregas,
Cazorla who pretty much played the same role with Silva and Iniesta, bring on Juan Mata, you need more creativity in midfield not a player who make some useless run and then lose the ball far to easy,
but oh well i don't like Spain, this is the perfect end for that stupid Tiki Taka in 2010.
Some points:-
1.Iniesta- He has been underperforming for quite a while now, probably the bad Barca season has dwindled his confidence, I haven't seen the "Genius" Iniesta for a while now, I hope for Barca's sake he will bounce back
2.Xabi Alonso- One of his worst performances ever, if not the worst, there were no sign of that smooth Xabi, he was rough the whole night, he just recovered from an injury and a little lack of game time is effecting him.
3.Costa- He was the shadow of the player which we saw playing for Atletico Madrid this season, I think the general low morale of his whole team effected him, he might also be suffering from a nagging injury
4.Torres-Del Bosque trusts him too much, he had a poor season with chelsea and shouldn't have been given a chance, as you rightly said David Villa would have proved much more effective.
5.Overall spanish team- They weren't motivated, no enthusiasm at all, players weren't playing as a team, just looked as if they were forced to play.
6.Tiki-Taka- For tiki-taka to be anywhere near successful it requires 4 elements- speed, team-work, finesse/skill, unexpectedness/innovation. At the height of their powers Barcelona had all 4, the players were young ergo speed, they had been playing together with each other since childhood in la masia and were spoon fed with this style, therefore teamwork and finesse and it was unique because Barcelona were committed to it and had may genius players.
This spanish team is a reverse of it, they are old unmotivated and just patched together, hence tiki-taka can never work with this team.
7.Defense-Again team of 2010 world cup were based on a Barca shell, Barca for the past 2 seasons had abysmal defence, Puyol's absence has effected them too much.
Pep Guardiola introduced a novel concept of exploiting possession as defense which due to the failure of tiki-taka is not working anymore. the passing is substandard, they now can't hold the ball for long.
8.Goalkeeping- The very pubic spat between Iker Casillas and Jose Mourinho saw casillas on bench and his confidence destroyed, who at that time was one of the worlds best goalkeeper, this season's lack of playing time has made him rusty and as a result he now commits egregious errors, it would be in best interest of spain to use either David gea or Diego Lopez
