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Standard Digital News - Kenya : An overrated team gets perfect World Cup capsules
The warning bells sounded last year in the Confederations Cup when Brazil outclassedSpain in what seemed to be a one-sided match, but Vicente del Bosque and his troops ignored it hopping things will significantly change in their favour. For how long were they going to ignore the danger signs? Well, World Cup was in store and it was a stage where differences were going to be squared out and pretenders were going to be clearly exposed – remember the 2010 World Cup final match.
Spain's big name ruled the football world for over five years – six to be precise – and it was a reign that was accompanied with a string of wonderful achievements that any nation would yearn for.
Football is evolving with the changing times and all believers and sympathisers would have noticed the La Roja team was fading off just the same way the form of most of the players in the team was accelerating downwards.
Look at this, Spain won the World Cup Trophy in 2010, the same year that Barcelona players dominated the first team positions. It can be viewed as the year when most Barcelona players were at the peak of their form and their club's achievements can be a justification to anchor this case on.
Barcelona won the Champions League trophy in 2009, just one year before World Cup. The same players went on to dominate the national team that won EURO 2008. That was when Barcelona was Barcelona and all that Spanish coach could do, was to take the same team to 2010 World Cup with just some few inclusions.
Indeed, we witness the famous 'tiki-taka' kind of football as Barcelona players in national colours exhibited high level of precision and efficiency that neutralise even big games and with so much ease they played that opponents could chase their shadows for almost the entire match.
That very lot won the Champions League again for Barcelona in 2011 but after that, it's been a dream to even reach the finals. That explains their fading form and Del Bosque could have weighed out his options, which were very much available rather than sticking to players with the same system which has been studied by all teams in the world. But how did their coach stick to a known system which appeared to be their weakness?
It's been obvious, if a team wants to beat Spain, they must be speedy and cede very little space in a chocking game system where wingbacks should be the top plan.
Van Gaal used five defenders who indeed tamed their attacking game and killed it off with speed that proved too high for the Spanish to handle. If anyone thought the 5-1 walloping by the Dutch was an accident and perhaps Spain had a chance to bounce back against Chile, those were fathomless dreams because Chile is a side which uses speed as of the weapon and please remind me how the first goal came – a pace that even their quickest defender could not handle. And which system did Jorge Sampaoli use to eliminate the defending champions? He probably borrowed the idea of using five defenders from Van Gaal.
Spain's famed passing game can never work against a high-tempo and tenacious team and may, be they need time to build their team but not any time soon. In short, Spain was a diluted team though with some quality players who need time to play anything close to the team of 2010.
That time they needed was not there in Brazil and may be, just may be, they can strategise for next World Cup. Talk of ordinary team beaten hands down, that's Spain for you.
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