Comments on: Explosive Navas stakes a late claim http://backpagefootball.com/explosive-navas-stakes-a-late-claim/6241/ Sat, 25 May 2013 14:18:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: David Bevan http://backpagefootball.com/explosive-navas-stakes-a-late-claim/6241/comment-page-1/#comment-6862 David Bevan Fri, 04 Jun 2010 08:41:49 +0000 http://backpagefootball.com/?p=6241#comment-6862 Llorente was certainly the weak link and they struggled to create chances without the movement of Villa up front. As soon as he came on, they looked ten times better in terms of creating chances.

I would still be confident they will finish top of their group, but the second round matches between their group and Brazil’s will be tasty whatever happens. Any two combinations of Spain/Chile/Honduras v Brazil/Portugal/ivory Coast will be interesting (sorry Swiss/N.Korea fans…)

]]> By: Kevin Coleman http://backpagefootball.com/explosive-navas-stakes-a-late-claim/6241/comment-page-1/#comment-6845 Kevin Coleman Thu, 03 Jun 2010 18:37:36 +0000 http://backpagefootball.com/?p=6241#comment-6845 Watched it myself, it was quite training ground like, almost a session of one touch passing.

Spain as evident recently seem to have difficulty breaking down sides until late, but that could be down to the weakened sides they put out – if you could call a team of Fabregas, Iniesta, Jesus Navas and Juan Mata weak.

Things picked up after the break, but even at that I felt if David Villa hadn’t of come on they wouldn’t have scored.

I have them down to finish second in their group, behind Chile – but only on a count of goal difference.

It’ll be very interesting to see how they fare come SA.

Also, congrats to Valdes – who finally got his first cap! :)

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