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Originally Posted by isildurx
That's the thing though. The reason why they aren't playing like they did two years ago is because they have swapped out a brilliant David Silva, who is creative and loves attacking defenders, a deadly Fernando Torres, and Marcos Senna, one of the best defensive midfielders in the game when it comes to breaking up play and man-marking, with two defensive midfielders, who primarily pass the ball sideways or back to Pique, and a Torres who is totally out of form.
This then means that instead of passing the ball around quickly, and usually forward, and threatening the opposition, they are now pretty much passing the ball sideways moving up the pitch at a very slow pace. When they finally reach the area around the opponents 16 yard box they either a) dont come up with anything to do b) pull of a shitty shot(hello Alonso), or hope that David Villa will pull something out of his hat.
Admittedly this got a bit better in the match against Germany, they finally got rid of Torres, but i daresay that if they ditched Xabi Alonso and got in Fabregas or Silva we would see Spain more the way they were in 2008 and that would be fantastic.
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In all fairness, David Silva is nowhere near his level of 2 years ago. The reason why Barca prefers to buy Mata over Silva says alot.
Same goes for Senna. Back then I agree he was one of the best defensive midfielders. Nowadays, Busquets is alot stronger and I've yet to see a midfielder in Spain that recovers more balls then Xabi Alonso.
I'm also not confident in Fabregas able to display the same form as in 2008, especially after his long injury. That's also why Pedro started instead of Fabregas or Silva.
I'd trade out Busquets rather then Xabi alonso, for the sheer fact that Xabi has a much better crossing and alot more ball recovery, which is essentially his primary task.