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Spain vs Italy, Sunday, 5pm KO

Rex

Italy could win this. Don't think they are really in with a shot though if Prandelli persists with Balotelli and Cassano.

y va marquer

Di Natale's pretty mega as an impact sub though isn't he?
If they stay brave and play as they did yesterday they'll be an intimidating prospect for anyone.
Then again there is the issue of Spain not having a proper striker for most of the game and a misfiring one for the remainder.
Buffon's standing tackle on Torres was the coolest funniest thing I've seen in football for ages 🙂

Klaus

y va marquer wrote:
Di Natale's pretty mega as an impact sub though isn't he?

He's even better as a starter though. He's the kind of player that the others will benefit from too. He brought out the best in Giovinco and Marchisio during the half hour he was on the field. I'm not sure why he didn't start but I'm pretty sure that Prandelli won't leave him out again.

lorddulaarsenal

Probably just being ageist

Timbob

Reckon Balotelli would be better coming off the bench too.

Mirth

Klaus wrote:
Loved how tactical it was too. It's rare to see great defending nowadays, but both teams displayed a lot of it last night. And no one was better at it than De Rossi. What a towering performance that was. He's played in central defence for exactly two games this season. One of them was against Juventus a few months ago the other one was yesterday. On forehand it looked like the loss of Barzagli would screw them over but I'm cautiously optimistic now.

Makes a nice change from defending being about 8 players behind the ball with no ambition to build attacks.

First half was a little flat but on the whole it was the best game of the opening games.

lorddulaarsenal

If Italy were to make just one change from yesterday's team they'd be best off bringing in giovinco

lorddulaarsenal

As soon as Spain put on a striker de Rossi was shown up. Just wasteful finishing from a broken Torres

Klaus

This is still hilarious:

😆

Timbob

Spain are still the team to beat and the best team in the competition.

Klaus

It was against Spain he pulled off that insane reflex save from an offside David Villa in 2008 too:

y va marquer

Buffon's been messing with Torres mind for ages.

Timbob

Cant believe how much uglier the Italian team is compared to 2006.

y va marquer

That's very true 🙂
Italian men are over rated on the looks front anyway, but this lot let the side down big time.
De Rossi is probably the best of them.

Klaus

On the upside, De Rossi and Nocerino have the best beards I've seen since Christoph Metzelder started shaving again.

Mirth

You'll have to go a long way to beat Olof Melberg's beard.

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