Are Spain boring?

[Doggy Styles]

All that tiki-taka. They have good technical skills in passing among themselves for most of a game, but the game as a spectacle suffers.

[doodab]

Frustrating. With an in form Torres they could be quite spectacular but it often seems like there is something missing. Goals! The best team in the world shouldn't just dominate possesion for 2 hours and squeak through on pens, they should decimate.

[Doggy Styles]

Frustrating. With an in form Torres they could be quite spectacular but it often seems like there is something missing. Goals! The best team in the world shouldn't just dominate possesion for 2 hours and squeak through on pens, they should decimate.

Possession can kill games but maybe it isn't everything.

In their nine knock-out games in this and the previous two tournaments which they won, Spain have only scored 10 goals. Not a lot. And three of those came in the first, the euro 2008 quarter final.

[petergriffin]

Frustrating. With an in form Rooney, England could be quite spectacular but it often seems like there is something missing. Goals!

FIFY

[doodab]

Possession can kill games but maybe it isn't everything.

Exactly. Their system is hard to beat but it lacks a cutting edge. In the world cup they often seemed to be trying to pass it into the net and sometimes it looks like they've forgotten to try that.

[sasguru]

The consensus among the pundits is that possession is the way forward. Yet Italy beat Germany with what I would call "Anglo-Saxon" goals i.e. the long ball. Having a midfielder like Pirlo who can deliver that long ball is good. If Italy could also find some swift wingers to bomb up and down the sides they could bypass the Spanish midfield.

[MarillionFan]

If youve got the ball then the other side can't score. It's a game of mathematics.

[oscarose]

the game as a spectacle suffers

+1

it lacks a cutting edge

+1

Hope the final isn't

[AtW]

All that tiki-taka. They have good technical skills in passing among themselves for most of a game, but the game as a spectacle suffers.

They make up for that in great celebrations after they win yet another title.

[doodab]

Hope the final isn't

With all those fiery latin temperaments I'm expecting especially if Italy get their nose in front.