Comments on: Five Things We Learned in Swissaustria, June 10th

By: ish

ish — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:53:53 +0000

lets see torres had an assist or two? Torres has a fast physical game not suited to the slow spanish build up since he cant utilise his speed as much. But during the killer pass or counter he is great and caused a threat to russia while he was on.
Fabregas i think he was offside for that goal but the pass to villa was perfect.
Also from those stats that means the italian are shit and need to import players to score there goals for them.(which is basically true)

By: Brigitterozario

Brigitterozario — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 06:00:33 +0000

Here’s one more thing we learnt:

Zlatan Ibrahimovic has balls of steel.

By: Anselm

Anselm — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 05:08:16 +0000

Barca didn’t let Fabregas go, Arsenal stoled him. In fact barca still want him back just like Pique.

By: mb

mb — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:13:13 +0000

i’ve been surprised to hear how much criticism the Greek’s take for their defensive strategy. The goal is to win the game- and the best way to do that is to do the best with what you have. And that’s what the Greek’s are doing- it worked last time. Unlike others, I found the match to be very interesting, entertaining, and tense. I was proud the Greek’s were going to play the game their way. It was very interesting to see such a strategy being played so well. I sat wondering how Sweden would react- are they going to get so frustrated they take chances, will they sit back and wait forever, etc?

I enjoyed it.

By: James

James — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:02:53 +0000

Torres is still a star, don’t you remember who gave that assist? Besides Villa didn’t look too fit anyways.

By: Marco Pantanella

Marco Pantanella — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:01:24 +0000

Daryl wrote:
Guus Hiddink has a masterplan. He’s figured that the sooner you get out of Euro 2008, the sooner you can get the Chelsea job. His plan is to be on Abramovich’s yacht before Big Phil Scolari.

Ahah good one Daryl. I wouldn’t bee too hasty at dismissing the sneaky Dutchman though. If there’s one thing Hiddink has proven over the years, it’s that he can do magic with average teams (cf South Korea and Australia).

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 23:31:28 +0000

Its pretty easy to say Cesc was in Barca’s youth, but they did let him go to Arsenal, so they didn’t rate him that much.

By: dumb-people

dumb-people — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 23:10:38 +0000

You people are insane, drawing conclusions on teams after 1 game, and drawing conclusions of players performances based on scores

By: john

john — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 23:01:23 +0000

Agreed Nolan. Further more, after the first round only one goal has been scored by a Premier League player – and by one raised by a Spanish youth team (Cesc of Barca youth). Of the 16 goals:

La Liga – 6 (3 Villa, 1 Pepe, 1 Sneijder, 1 Ruud)

Serie A – 2 (1 Gio, 1 Ibrahimovich)

And the rest are a smattering of other leagues with 1 goal each.

By: Nolan

Nolan — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:47:20 +0000

It’s funny how after the English media hyped Torres and Cesc up as Spain’s main men, the true stars revealed themselves – Villa and Iniesta.