Barca-Pool Give England A Spanish Lesson

Spain chewed Eng­land up and spit them out.

There was no other way that the game could be put.   It was ironic to have done it to Fabio Cappello’s team in Spain.   The home side was sim­ply a machine and there was no doubt that they are the best team in the world.

“Barca-Pool” dom­i­nated from the get go and there was no doubt as to the final result of the game.   It was not even fair.  Tonight, Spain was Muham­mad Ali and Eng­land was Chuck Wep­ner.  There was no one in that pitch that thought Eng­land had a chance, and the Spaniards made sure of it quickly and oftenly.  No longer were play­ers like Beck­ham, Terry, Lam­pard even looked at in the same stratos­phere as “Barca-Pool”.  They were not in the same pitch as Villa, Llorente, Xavi, Senna, Casil­las, and the rest of the crew.

Long gone are the days when the inven­tors of the game walked alone atop the foot­balling planet.  Now they are just mixed up in the conun­drum that is the medi­oc­rity in the now third tier of inter­na­tional play.  It’s a game in which the the reign­ing Euro­pean champs faced a team whose glo­ries were way behind them.

It was an hon­est lit­mus test for the Spaniards under Vicente del Bosque; but they answered those ques­tions rather quickly.   They were able to counter Eng­land and Cappello’s desire to muck up play in the mid­dle by using the play­ers that they had in the mid­dle and that made all of the dif­fer­ence in the world.  Michael Car­rick was the lone line of defense in the mid­dle as Gareth Barry was not even a fac­tor in the match  as they saw Xavi and the rest of the his teammates.

Villa Makes History

Xabi Alonso found the Valen­cia striker deep and with typ­i­cal David Villa– style he entered Span­ish national team record books becom­ing the first player to ever score in six con­sec­u­tive matches.

At this stage in the game Del Bosque switched and played with one player up front and the inten­sity of the game reduced sig­nif­i­cantly, yet the accu­racy remained just as deadly.  Spain only had one shot on David James’ goal and it hap­pened to be Llorente that would take it and place in the back of the Eng­lish net.

The goal stretched the Spaniards unprecented win­ning streak into 2009.  For the Eng­lish con­tin­ued ques­tion marks on their end as they got a big real­ity check.

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