Spain opens up their defense of their Euro 2008 Championship Trophy against Liechtenstein in a Group I match on 3 Sept in Vaduz. The match KO is 2045 hours. Vicente Del Bosque announced the following players for call up for this match: GOAL KEEPERS: Casillas, Valdés, Reina DEFENDERS: Arbeloa, Sergio Ramos, Puyol, Piqué, Marchena, Capdevila MIDFIELDERS: Xabi Alonso, Busquets, Xavi, Cazorla, Cesc, Iniesta FORWARDS: Pedro, Jesús Navas, Villa, Silva, Llorente, Fernando Torres I plan on keeping the same thread title for the pre, PBP and post match comments. Viva Espanha y La Furia Roja!!
The players are now in Las Rozas in preparation for the next 2 matches. http://www.marca.com/2010/08/31/futbol/seleccion/1283261345.html Viva Espanha y La Furia Roja!!
Osasuna defender Monreal called up to replace Puyol who has an injured calf. Puyol did not play for Barca in their first match of the liga this past weekend. http://www.goal.com/en/news/12/spai...der-nacho-monreal-called-up-to-spain-squad-to Viva Espanha y La Furia Roja!!
EURO 2012 Qualification Vaduz - Rheinpark Stadion Friday kickoff 20:45 Central European 2:45pm U.S. eastern/11:45am pacific Recent form last six international results • LIECHTENSTEIN: LDLLLD 1-1 Iceland (A) 0-5 Croatia (A) 0-2 Wales (H) 0-2 Azerbaijan (H) 1-1 Finland (H) 0-3 Russia (A) • SPAIN: WWWWWD 1-1 Mexico (A) 1-0aet Netherlands (N) 1-0 Germany (N) 1-0 Paraguay (N) 1-0 Portugal (N) 2-1 Chile (N) 2-0 Honduras (N) Last meeting 6 June 2007 EURO 2008 qualifier in Vaduz Liechtenstein 0-2 Spain 0-1 Villa 8' 0-2 Villa 14' History Matches: 4 Liechtenstein wins: 0 Spain wins: 4 Draws: 0 Goals scored: Liechtenstein 0, Spain 13
UncleSox you're getting slow, I was expecting that info on the 30th not 2 days later!! Viva Espanha y La Furia Roja!!
Forgot that the international break was here already. Always seems to happen: La Liga finally begins then straight away there's a FIFA break. I'll post in the Argentina thread after Friday's match.
Wednesday's training session Players greeting Monreal (first photo) along with other images from Wednesday's session.
Here is preview of tomorrows match: http://www.goal.com/en/match/50498/liechtenstein-vs-spain/preview Viva Espanha y La Furia Roja!!
CONFIRMED starting lineup [LINEUP-4-4-2]Villa, Torres, Iniesta, Busquets, Xabi Alonso, Xavi, Capdevila, Marchena, Piqué, Sergio Ramos, Casillas[/LINEUP-4-4-2] Substitutes: Valdés, Reina, Arbeloa, Munreal, Cazorla, Cesc, Pedro, Jesús Navas, Silva, Llorente
Goooool Villa Maravilla! Rocket of a shot from just outside the box flew by Jehle who was very late with his dive.
EURO 2012 Qualification Halftime Liechtenstein 0-2 Spain 0-1 : Torres 18' 0-2 : Villa 26' RFEF confirms that Villa now has 43 international goals which puts him just one behind Raúl as his country's all-time leading scorer. (Many outlets believed and reported that Villa had scored number 44.)
51st minute - WTH! Casillas slid way outside the box to clear that one. Spain asleep at the wheel for a second.
Goooool Fantastic passing with Torres finishing with authority, hard shot to the near post past the keeper. Wonderful stuff. 3-0
53rd minute - GOAL! Torres near post. Maybe Roy was wrong, maybe exactly what Torres needed was to play.
... against Liechtenstein. Still, great performance by El Niño which should be a great confidence booster for him.