y u mad tho
I'm not the one who got angry about a handballer rightly being accused by people of being unsporting.
This World Cup was the one with less goals per match of all time.
The "problem" with Spain is that they completely dominate the game. They have complete dominance over the opposition every game. That is good. What it's not good is to not take advantage of it to score more goals.
Have you actually been watching any of Spain's matches? Even in the final, they had 5 glorious chances (Ramos, Villa, Fabregas and two from Puyol) yet they didn't take any of them. They've had a problem in their clinical finishing ever since Torres became crooked, this does not make them football cancer.
Again, the fact they had most shots on goal than any other team shows they tried to take advantage of it, most goal keepers were just having an excellent match against them.
And yes, this world cup has one of the least amount of goals, but that does not change the fact of what you are arguing for Spain being football cancer.
What happens most of the time is that Spain just controls when they want to attack and just pass the ball around without much pressure. They FORCE the opponent to play defensively.
The Swiss are defensive, Portugal are mindnumbingly boring and defensive, the Germans sat there for the counter which never came because Spain defended better than all the other teams and Netherlands even made a point of interrupting their play though fouling and harassing them. These teams were not forced, it was in their game plan.
All these teams set up shop earlier on and, especially seeing the Swiss, thought they could catch Spain out and win 1-0, they couldn't, really. The teams Spain faced all played extremely defensive football.
Chillie decided to play attacking football and lo and behold, that was an exciting game.
Don't get me wrong, this is great! ...for them. For the show it's pretty lame. That's why this final was a total snorefest.
Finals usually are snorefests. League games are were real excitements lay. Besides, did you see how Netherlands were trying to kill everyone who was not Dutch? Half of Spain's players are lucky to still be able to play football (Alonso and Ineista in particular)
And they still played better than almost everyone overall barring Brazil and Germany. The tournament was bad, but Spain was in the top three of best teams. I realize you are Portuguese and trying to make you say they played good football is the same as me saying Tottenham are a good team, but let's not go overboard with calling them football's cancer.
I may have taken a specific statistic apart, but it also happens that that is the most important one. Few goals may not mean fewer excitement. But 1-0 wins and complete dominance over the opposition does. Sorry I just don't like to watch Spain play football, at all.
The most important one... When we are talking about winning.
You are making an accusation on their general play, where you are meant to use every single stat. Otherwise Portugal played wonderful football, which we know was just not the case.
Spain may not have dazzled like they did two years ago, but they are not football cancer and played some good football in tournament. Both attacking and defensive.
