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Originally Posted by Tietäjä
Ok. Let me rephrase this very carefully now. I can agree that Rooney's a brilliant player. I can also agree that Xavi and Iniesta are brilliant players. I always liked Carlos Valderrama. Lothar Matthäus was an inspiration to me when I was a kid.
However, this isn't about who can be this and that if they play to their very best. Currently, what I personally feel the reason to Spain's relatively poor scoring record is that they're having difficulties creating sufficiently good scoring chances against most teams. A lot of their efforts are just "shots". While say, Germany, or Netherlands, are able to play ball around, find space, and find opportunities. Why? Because they've got less flair, poorer pass, poorer creativity? No. The contrary. Whether this is due to Xavi and Iniesta being on poor form or them being crud is not very relevant to the result. Spain will need to show more creativity, more flair, and more ability to break down defenses to find themselves in the better picks to put the ball into the net.
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I'm merely saying that Spain and those playing in particular have proven to be able to be creative, deadly, efficient and all of that. I'm just saying that it is possible that they beat Germany with their typical game. So far, they've failed to impress (allthough I enjoy watching them play). Let's hope that can be different tomorrow evening.
While other "top" teams like Italy or France have at no point proven that they can measure themselves with the top teams during the last few years.