Sunday, June 30, 2013

Finals preview, Spain vs Brazil


Who will win in this tense face off? The defending World Cup and Euro Champions Spain or the 5-time World Cup winners Brazil? They haven't met each other for a very long time and what I mean by long is almost a decade and a half. When they played 14 years ago, they tied nil to nil. The both teams have done very good, haven't lost a single match through the Confederations Cup and both teams are even, having a 35 game unbeatable streak (A record in world football) but so far in the late games in around May, Spain have been unbeatable. I think it will be a great, tense game, but Brazil will win. I think they are also the favorites because of the semi-finals; Spain had to play 120 min++ while Brazil only had to play 45 x 2.  I say both teams will play well. So far the Spaniards are better through statistics, winning recent cups and they are currently first in rankings."I was really looking forward to a final against Spain, and I don’t think I am the only one. We have the chance to test ourselves against the best team in the world and the defending world champions. We feel a mixture of respect and admiration for our opponents, but we need to impose ourselves and play our game,” said Brazilian star Neymar. Brazil will have to face Spain trademark tikki-takka tactic and I think both coaches are experienced especially Spain's coach Vicente Del Bosque, the mastermind behind Spain's World Cup and Euro, but I also think that Brazil's Luiz Felipe Scolari is great, after he managed tons of successful teams and personally, I think that they look quite alike except that Vicente Del Bosque looks a bit more cheerful :). This game will most definite be tense and there's a 60% chance that it's going to extra time or even maybe penalties. The game is playing tonight, and I think a huge amount of supporters will watch it. Some say it's a dream final.19:00, local time (Rio). Remember,19:00, local time!

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