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@KOMAN (Comment 6): I appreciate your help. Thank you­ very much!!

"If you want to win the Euro you have to beat­ Spain !" --- DUH !!!! What smart comment. How­ about beating Spain but then losing with all the other­ countries. !!? Some of these commentators need lessons­ in 'logical thinking'. ---------------- It is­ easy to look good if you're not in the group of­ death If Spain was in the group of death, Spain would­ not survive Portugal or Germany.... unless of course­ the referee helped Spain as happened in E-2008 and WC­ 2010

# 1 "intellectual ability" ?????????------ ­ "intellectual" ???? ---------------- ha ha­ ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

@comment5: just go to skysports like all the rest of­ us.

I think it is an abuse I can not see this video just­ becouse I am not in Britain, I guess. Everyone should­ be able to see art wherever he comes from

England vs Italy: now that was boring for someone not­ rooting for either side. So much wasted possession.­ England invariably passed to a blue shirt or belted it­ over the sideline. Italy hardly ever strung 3 passes­ together before they took a long, predictable,­ innocuous shot at goal. Result: 120 minutes of sterile­ error-ridden ball abuse, 70-metre goal kicks and­ speculators. So many turnovers, so little control, so­ few real chances. Not only boring but depressing to see­ professionals with such low levels of basic skills.­ They simply can't control the ball, so how the hell­ are they going to play football? Their idea of a­ deadly attack was to belt the ball from 30 or 40 metres­ out on the off-chance that it might go in off the­ melee in the area. Spain, on the other hand, are an­ absorbing side to watch if you don't care about the­ result. Every attack is a threat, every pass a­ potential menace, every player is thinking and scheming­ about where to find the gap or how to create it out of­ nothing. These days it takes time. The rival team has­ learned that these innocent passed conceal a deadly­ threat and usually has 8 or 9 players crowding the area­ because they are scared ****less, but in spite of the­ wall of defenders you know it's just a matter of­ time before a subtle, elusive pass leaves the defence­ stranded and some little guy slips through the gap,­ controls the ball with impeccable technique and leaves­ it at the feet of a team mate with the goalie stranded­ to score at will. They don't waste possession with­ speculators: every shot at goal is a chance. Their­ football is forged on the street, where muscle is no­ advantage and barging too dangerous to be acceptable,­ where teamwork is the key, possession the lock to shut­ down the rival and strategy the road to victory. Their­ football is street culture raised to the condition of­ art.

"the small one" really !!!!

It still amazes me that people think Spain lack shots­ on goal. Please look up the stats. They are 3rd or­ better in shots on goal and shots. And they are second­ in Goals, by one. So pleeeease someone tell me how­ they lack offensively?

Spain have been labelled boring but anyone who is that­ stupid to not admire the skill, tactics, movement,­ effort, application and intellectual ability of players­ to interact, alter tactics and still have desire is­ showing no respect. Yes in the sense of the high­ possession stats, completion of passes there is a lack­ of shots and goals BUT what a team and production line­ as look as the midfield players not in the team and­ waiting their chance as the next generation. Who in­ England holds a light to these dynamos? Rodwell and­ Wiltshire? I don't think so!!!!!