Village Idiot

Ramos... miss!

We get ridiculed every Confed Cup, it worked last time.

We played 120 minutes on Thursday. VdB should have rotated more, imho.

Arbeloa subbed off for Azpilicueta

Not really, always been a problem position. Arbeloa's by far the weakest player in our starting XI. He usually is still decent, until today. Both Carvajal/Montoya should be able to improve on him in following years. Your best right back is playing in the centre, but Azpilicueta is already much better than Arbeloa. I don't rate the latter as anything more than a average player going forward and defensively. Ramos is weaker defensively than Arbeloa at RB. He's great going forward, but playing two attacking FBs would not be advisable. Haven't seen much of Azpilicueta since he left other than odd PL/CL games. I rated him when he played for Osasuna though.

Not really, always been a problem position. Arbeloa's by far the weakest player in our starting XI. He usually is still decent, until today. Both Carvajal/Montoya should be able to improve on him in following years.

Even when this guy loses he wins. Gotta get some comfort But yeah, I had some doubts over Neymar (never really seen him play much outside s*** friendlies) but he's been mint in this tournament. Really looking forward seeing him play for us now.

Neymar's mint. Already getting a boner.

Arbeloa

Damn! Close.

Do you know how lucky you are? I know man, I know... Without people like Cesc or Villa in the pitch, we seriously lack people who have the confidence to have a pop.

Nice pass from Neymar there, he'll have the little Argie finishing that stuff over here

Arbeloa having the mare of his life.

Arbeloa man, sub him off already

All the games I saw had some pretty good atmospheres (our group was great) despite neutral teams playing.

Marcelo losing it already.

Nah it's fine, I get to blame Real Madrid players for it

Heh, defending.

Love the massive tilting down the camera had to do when it got to Xavi during the anthem pan through all our players

On a neutral ground I'd have us as clear favorites. Not here, though. The crowd will fire them up.

God, Spain was awful in 94 At least they would have given Brazil game. Awful final. Ruined the tournament. You probably didn't watch us play back then, our tactics would have made Pulis proud.

God, Spain was awful in 94

FYP True. And Shearer and Hansen in the studio. Been absolutely superb this tournament but still gets so much criticism here. Who gives a f***? We've got Welbeck and Sturridge... It's more comedic/pathetic over here, since he now plays for Barça. Madrid media saying he's been largely disappointing while the Barcelona ones already putting him in the running for the second place in the Ballon d'Or. This country

I just want to beat Brazil, two times we've played them in my lifetime we have lost narrowly/unfairly.

Just realized that our starting XI plays for just 3 teams: Barça, Madrid and Chelsea.