Monday, 2 July 2012

EURO 2012 Championship: "Boring" Spain indeed

Despite heavy criticism of the Spanish style of football, they went all the way to become the first European team to ever win three back-to-back international tournaments as they defended the European Championship with a comfortable 4-0 win over Italy thanks to goals from David Silva, Jordi Alba, Fernando Torres and Juan Mata in Kiev.

Some say they played a 4-6-0 formation that gives no place for the natural forward (striker), the midfield and and attack composed of midfielders who can fall into the place of a striker at any time, they play a tiki-taka pattern, knock the ball around, have the most completed passes, retain possession, what a philosophy!

Football is all about result, if the world will criticize a side that win matches, break and make records, win individual titles and become the best so be it.


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1 comment:

  1. Forte Jnr2 July 2012 at 15:53

    Spain's tactical approach was undoubtingly awesome, the world didn't see this coming. If anyone opposes their formation then they should ask all the defending teams they've met if they were able to see an attacker in the pack to mark as suppose the use of traditional attacker approach....holaespana

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