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Also not sure if this was mentioned but Egypt was knocked out of an opportunity to play in the 2013 Cup of Nations after losing to the Central African Republic. I won't pretend to know whether Egypt or the CAR is the better team, but an almost 50-position difference in Fifa rankings seems to make this a bit of an upset.
Kidbert expecting a save for Wes Littleton too?
50 Shades of Play? Who's Spain's inner goddess?
If Italy wins, then by the transitive property of victories, the US should be Euro Champions given our 1-0 victory.
Nice nice goal by Spain.
/sarcasm
Hell, the US won a competitive game against Spain fairly recently, so you can crown yourself whatever happens.
I was thinking about this today. I think the problem is that games involving Soain are often boring. Teams are too willing to let Spain have possession. Italy seems willing to be aggressive which may not work but should be entertaining.
Yep. Switching to ESPN 3
And Chiellini injured during the outage, wonder if he aggravated the earlier one.
That is what they were saying.
Trolololo
Hey, Macca is stealing my lines.
First rule of Italian fashion via Gianni Agnelli: don't look like you're trying too hard.
But try extremely hard to look like you aren't trying too hard, rather than not actually trying too hard and going for the Rab C. Nesbitt look.
This sounds like a lot of work. Think I'll just go for the Newcastle United fan look--get fat, lose all my hair, get several large, ugly tattoos and then walk around shirtless.
OK old guys, does Spain hold a candle to '70 Brazil?
Yeah, that ad didn't even make sense when Wilshere was actually on the pitch occasionally.
Sure looked like a penalty.
Exactly! Didn't he have a full-time fashion consultant on the books?
I think you need to go one World Cup later to find the best team ever, if you ask me. Not that you are!
I was going to mention them, but it seems a lot of people think the runners up were better so I didn't want to risk it.
Those people are too clever by half. My only religion is Total Football - I've got the games, I've got the shirt(s), I've got the coaching science books. I sit in my house on weekends and watch Holland friendlies from the 70s in the original Dutch.
Germany were better. And their '72 vintage with Netzer was the most dominant Euro team of all time (though the format was totally different), even more than this Spain team.
The 70's seem like they were a Golden Age of international soccer. Too bad they had to have the 78 Cup in Argentina.
That is an awesome Freudian slip!
Chelsea subs everywhere!
Sure. OK!
He was not.
Still, Spain were really good as well and showed that they weren't just tiki-taka.
It is. Goals against Ireland and a garbage time goal in the final. Heh!
Italy were really really good today. And they got slaughtered.
The injury was really a shame though. The game was basically decided right then. It would have been nice to see Italy keep going after them like they did for the opening 10 minutes of the second half.
Sometimes it works and they do win and those performances go down in history - whoever dived against the Aussies in 2006, Gentile's famous demolition of Maradona in '82 via endless shirt-pulling and petty fouling - but most of their best wins are straight up. They weren't flopping around against Brazil in '82, nor against Germany in '06.
My thought exactly. Italy tried to play Spain straight up and got abused. Italy didn't play poorly either. But even at 2-0 I thought Spain was more likely to score again than Italy to score. The DiNatale shot where he was played through he looked offside to me on replay. I think Spain gave an all-time great performance today. I respect the hell out of Italy trying to play them straight up - they just couldn't. Also, Pirlo is a great free kicker but I think he was pretty seriously outplayed by Xavi today and generally didn't have near the tournament people were acting like he did.
Italy was in form, played in form, and still got throttled. Spain is incredible. They're still a clear step above the Portugal, Italy, and Germany's of the world.
This a historically significant football team.
Italy over-achieved, and should be able to build on this performance.
There has been much talk in the German press about the current team being the best German one ever - I kid you not. That has somewhat quieted in the last few days though...
Not the greatest quality of play in the world, but very, VERY entertaining.
Another match well worth watching, if you missed it the 1st time around, Dortmund vs Stuttgart on 3/30.
Something to kill the time until leagues heat up again, at the least ...
Entertaining, yes. But that was a clinic on how not to defend.
As for Best Team Ever, I decided to take a look at Eloratings. Right now, Spain are at 2132 points (actually, their highest ever score came after winning in Joburg, at 2140). The teams that have achieved a higher score are 50s Hungary and 60s Brazil. Considering international football has become more competitive since then, and Spain's score has been kept down by losing most of their high-profile friendlies since the World Cup (and, after all, friendlies aren't entirely about winning), I'd tip them.
They haven't allowed a goal in a knockout game of a major tournament since the 2006 World Cup. That's 10 consecutive games, I believe.
They're really good.
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