Its time for the new world champions
I wasn't watching much tv lately and consequently when i was hearing about 'the octopus' which was predicting the results of Germany's world cup games, i thought that it was all about a betting tipster. I started paying more attention to this when i realised that all the media did really dedicate some time to refer to 'Paul'. The first blow was Argentina's 4-0 defeat from Germany; instead of us eating 'the octopus', Paul has actually 'cooked' us!
It's now time for the new world champions in football; tonight we have the game between Holland and Spain. The only definite outcome of this final is the fact that whichever the winner is, it is going to be a first-timer and the 8th different team that will be winning the world cup in the history of the competition. The game between Holland and Spain is a game between 2 teams that deserve to be in the final and we all expect to see a grande finale to the competition.
Holland maybe believes that history owes something to this country because of the fact that it has already reached 2 world cup finals, in the 1974 and 1978 competitions, and lost both of them having played against the host nations (Germany and Argentina). This obviously doesn't mean that Holland is going to win this year's final without sweating a lot, against a team which is probably the best in its history.
Contrary to the Dutch who believe that they 'deserve' to win the world cup in their 3rd participation in a final, i believe that history owes more to Spain than to Holland. Spain has never actually managed to produce something memorable in European and worldwide football, always losing games at crucial, turning points which resulted in giving the team a loosers' label. With the conquer of the European Championship of 2008, Spain has started reaching out of its darkness, and today it has the chance to throw this loosers' label out of its way for good.
My opinion is that in the final, we have the 2 teams that throughout the competition showed a notable consistency and gravity in their games. I should note though that in its semi-final game against Uruguay, Holland did seem to be quite shaky in various instances. The thing is that at the end of the day it managed a 3-2 win, its 6th win in 6 games in this year's competition. Uruguay gave its all, it tried to put some pressure on Holland but it ended up losing the game because of the absences of Suarez and Lugano and the lack of depth on the bench.
On the other hand, Spain's performance against Germany was more than just convincing. And obviously Germany was a more difficult opponent than Uruguay, not only because of the confident manner it dealt with its knock-out games but much more in the fact that it scored 4 goals per game against England and Argentina. Spain though managed to find the way to paralyse Germany mainly through its pressure all over the pitch and the endless tempo it established in the game.
I feel that it is Spain which is going to win the final tonight, especially if it manages to put on display a similar performance to the one in the semi-final against Germany; in other words if it manages to put pressure on Holland all over the pitch, go after the ball on a non-stop basis and keep the ball as much as possible. One amazing thing about this Spanish team is that it has managed to reach the final with the actual services of only one attacker. I am obviously referring to Villa ... Torres has been non-existent throughout the tournament.
For Holland to have some decent chances of winning tonight, it must change a number of things in its game. It has to gear up, its central midfielders Van Bommel and De Jong have to really keep up with the diabolic Spanish midfielders ... i am happy with the fact that the referee of the game allows a free flow in his games.
TARZAN - Ray Charles.
I have a lot of respect for the Dutch ladies but today's picture shows my obvious preference. I quite like the latin mood, the latin style. And i did bet at the beginning of the tournament in favour of Spain to win the competition and in favour of Villa to become the topgoalscorer. Vamos!!!
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