La Furia are through to the Euro's after a nailbiting encounter with Castle Liechtenstein (which had to be emptied so it could field an XI). Don't let the cartoon mislead you into googling their line up in search of 10 Franks (and the 1 Brian for that matter, be it grey or white..), it was just there to take advantage of such a deliciously forbidding country name replete with phlegmy 'cht's and thunder-lightning sounds during the pause between pronouncing Lie(phlegm)ten....and stein... Unfortunately, the team (minus photo-shopped frankenstein faces) was alarmingly non-forbidding. Frankly, they sucked. Less appreciable than even the Swiss Franc. Set up shop in the corner and were done in 5 minutes, like a franky. As annoying and irrelevant as a frank-call (clearly time to give up...). For a country that probably has more people than currency notes bearing the name Franc, getting beaten only 6-0 by the reddest hottest teamest in the world right now was quite commendable. Especially when many of them play in the Swiss league and can take their salary to buy an alpine castle instead of sweating their asses off chasing Xavi/Iniesta's shadows. But scoreline apart, Spain ripped this game apart like a Shark rips a Lays packet with neatly defined tear-here marks, or without even...and not necessarily Sharks either, I'm pretty handy with those packets myself... so yea they ripped the game apart.
Not altogether unsurprising funnily enough, given a very strange formation. Even with Torres in the side, Villa used to play just behind him in the hole, not the left wing position he occupies for Barca. Villa was put on the wing without an effective false 9, Mata is better on the left but played right, and Negredo doesn't play too well as a lone striker. While Iniesta pushing back into MF might be necessary as long as useless Arbeloa starts as LB, the MF trio played way too high up to really judge the front 3 decision. Doesnt' mean I didn't judge though! Villa is way too good in the hole to waste on the line!!! (tNwss). Strictly speaking position-wise, he was way off position for both his goals! But barring him and Iniesta, there isn't anyone else on this team who can score from Mata's pass the way he scored his 1st. Spain has too many skillful players sitting on the bench, so it must be tempting to do away with the 4-4-2, but they're still trying to accommodate Torres/Llorente/Negredo on the "plan B" premise. Which is strange considering that their plan A has now become plan Barcelona, who have no plan B (do refrain from saying "hey B stands for Barcelona"...I rejected it as even worse than frank-call, so you should too..).
In other news, Torres still sucks too much to even make bench, Alonso stoically refuses to get sucked into this whole "let's play keep-ball..that too with ground-passes only" bandwagon, Busquets is very naively playing defense all too well to get re-accommodated into MF, and Albiol is forever adding to the huge smirks for us Valencia fans after we talked up a horrrrible error-ridden season as "next Ayala for Che, next Hierro for Spain" and flesh-traded him to Madrid who thought they poached our brightest star!! Slight smirk inhibitor is recent gossip that Valencia might repurchase him :(
P.S If you're wondering why there's no mention about Brazil after Selecao reference in the title, clearly this is the first post you're reading on the blog.. Not just because our titles (and frequently, posts) make absolutely no sense, but also because I wouldn't be caught dead wasting blogspace on that ugly team! A hard decision given we are endeavoring to be a populist blog of the masses (evident from posts about Euro qualifiers, UEFA Cup, Bilbao and Valencia)..
Not altogether unsurprising funnily enough, given a very strange formation. Even with Torres in the side, Villa used to play just behind him in the hole, not the left wing position he occupies for Barca. Villa was put on the wing without an effective false 9, Mata is better on the left but played right, and Negredo doesn't play too well as a lone striker. While Iniesta pushing back into MF might be necessary as long as useless Arbeloa starts as LB, the MF trio played way too high up to really judge the front 3 decision. Doesnt' mean I didn't judge though! Villa is way too good in the hole to waste on the line!!! (tNwss). Strictly speaking position-wise, he was way off position for both his goals! But barring him and Iniesta, there isn't anyone else on this team who can score from Mata's pass the way he scored his 1st. Spain has too many skillful players sitting on the bench, so it must be tempting to do away with the 4-4-2, but they're still trying to accommodate Torres/Llorente/Negredo on the "plan B" premise. Which is strange considering that their plan A has now become plan Barcelona, who have no plan B (do refrain from saying "hey B stands for Barcelona"...I rejected it as even worse than frank-call, so you should too..).
In other news, Torres still sucks too much to even make bench, Alonso stoically refuses to get sucked into this whole "let's play keep-ball..that too with ground-passes only" bandwagon, Busquets is very naively playing defense all too well to get re-accommodated into MF, and Albiol is forever adding to the huge smirks for us Valencia fans after we talked up a horrrrible error-ridden season as "next Ayala for Che, next Hierro for Spain" and flesh-traded him to Madrid who thought they poached our brightest star!! Slight smirk inhibitor is recent gossip that Valencia might repurchase him :(
P.S If you're wondering why there's no mention about Brazil after Selecao reference in the title, clearly this is the first post you're reading on the blog.. Not just because our titles (and frequently, posts) make absolutely no sense, but also because I wouldn't be caught dead wasting blogspace on that ugly team! A hard decision given we are endeavoring to be a populist blog of the masses (evident from posts about Euro qualifiers, UEFA Cup, Bilbao and Valencia)..
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