THE FINAL THIRD

Argentina vs. Spain Highlights – International Friendly

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Real Madrid did some great business by sneaking in and buying Sergio Canales from Racing Santander last year. He is now currently playing on a superb Spain U21 squad in Euro qualifying and doing some amazing things. This ingenious set play is a perfect example of the creativity and skill that Spain play with.

Big friendly match today in Buenos Aires. Argentina-Spain. Many stories emanating from this clash. Argentina and Spain are historically, culturally, and “futbolisticamente” entwined. Argentine coach Sergio Batista is fighting to secure his job. He has been told that results will determine his fate. So there is plenty at stake in Buenos Aires. Spain are putting their prestige on the line. Argentina are fighting for the future of their coach.

Should be a great 90 minutes of football.

TF3 favorite, Jonathan Wilson tweaks the 4-2-3-1 formation in the previous post… Many will say that the differences between the two formations are miniscule, however, Wilson does a good job of explaining the subtleties. Of course, at the forefront of this evolution(not revolution) is Spain, FC Barcelona, and Arsenal…

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“Regrettably, sadly, they [Holland] played very dirty. So much so that they should have been down to nine immediately, then they made two [such] ugly and hard tackles that even I felt the damage. This ugly, vulgar, hard, hermetic, hardly eye-catching, hardly football style, yes it served the Dutch to unsettle Spain. If with this they got satisfaction, fine, but they ended up losing. They were playing anti-football.” – Johan Cruyff.