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Italy? Monkey Send a noteboard - 08/06/2010 10:05:20 AM

Although they did lose to the USA.

Spain are like Barcelona with actual front men (Torres and/or Villa) and people capable of shots from outside the box (Fabrecas/Alonso), which is terrifying, but makes you wonder if someone could pull an Inter on them.


I rather doubt it to be honest, but then, Spain isn't as good as Barcelona either (Torres is not Messi, though not far behind, even when he's at his best, and he's not at his best now). Still, anybody trying to do nothing but defend with 11 players for the final twenty minutes of a game is likely to pay for it. That performance was insane - insane that they tried it, but even more insane that they actually pulled it off.
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