Semifinal #2 Russia v Spain [R]

[unclesox]

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Match #30
Thursday 26 June
20:45 Central European / 2:45pm North American eastern


Recent form (last five international results)
- RUSSIA: WLWWW
3-1aet Holland (EURO)
2-0 Sweden (EURO)
1-0 Greece (EURO)
1-4 Spain (EURO)
4-1 Lithuania (A)
- SPAIN: WWWWD
0-0aet, 4-2 penalties v Italy (EURO)
2-1 Greece (EURO)
2-1 Sweden (EURO)
4-1 Russia (EURO)
1-0 United States (H)


Last meeting between teams
10 June 2008
EURO 2008 Group D in Innsbruck
Spain 4-1 Russia
1:0 - Villa 20'
2:0 - Villa 44'
3:0 - Villa 75'
3:1 - Pavlyuchenko 86'
4:1 - Fabregas 90'


History
Played: 4
Russia wins: 0
Spain wins: 3
Draws: 1
Goals scored: Russia 1, Spain 6

[glennaldo_sf]

Never thought I'd see the words 'Spain' and 'semifinal' together in the same thread but here we go... congrats to both teams. This should be a great game!

[JeremyEritrea]

I'm thinking we'll see a Germany v Russia final.

Spain did not look very good against Italy, and Russia were phenomenal against the Dutch.

[Pichi]

Never thought I'd see the words 'Spain' and 'semifinal' together in the same thread but here we go... congrats to both teams. This should be a great game!

You'd have to go back to 84 for that one and I am sure many of the posters were just gleams in their dad's eyes during that one!! :D

Aupa Espanha y Viva Er Beti Manque Lopera!!

La Furia Roja!!!

Er Pichi

[Prawn Sandwich]

Please be more careful with thread titles

[Pichi]

I'm thinking we'll see a Germany v Russia final.

Spain did not look very good against Italy, and Russia were phenomenal against the Dutch.

I would love to see a Turkey-Spain final!!

The Germans have too much hardware in their trophy case already! :rolleyes:

Aupa Espanha y Viva Er Beti Manque Lopera!!

La Furia Roja!!!

Er Pichi

[ToBeAGooner]

Really excited for this one. Should be a massively different game with Arshavin actually playing. I still would favor Spain if I had to pick, but I think the Ruskies will show up and actually play football, which is more that can be said about certain nations.

[sendorange]

Russia did create a lot of good chances in the group game and that was without Arshavin who will help them a lot.

But Kolodin is suspended for Russia and defensively I just don't see how they can cope with Torres and Villa again.

Spain 4-2.

[Lusankya]

The Germans have too much hardware in their trophy case already! :rolleyes:

You can never have enough. :rolleyes:
Also, it's our last chance to win something in the "2000s".

[Oscar]

2010 is also in the 2000s, plus you have a world cup lying somewhere in Germany which wasn't won by any team in 2006. Go look for that Cup to fill your trophy room and leave this Euro Cup to us. ;)

[unclesox]

Please be more careful with thread titles
Sorry about that. :o
Just curious, what is the time lapse before it can be added on? 24 hours I'm guessing.

[unclesox]

You'd have to go back to 84 for that one and I am sure many of the posters were just gleams in their dad's eyes during that one!! :D
I remember that very well.
Maceda's powerful last minute header that Schumacher couldn't keep out... but Arconada was the hero of that Germany match as well as the Denmark semifinal iirc.
Very cruel how the ball squirted out from under his body in the final. :(

[Maverick977]

God...I m so glad that Spain won today...Viva La Furia Roja...If Italy had won today, then it woulda been the demise of beautiful football...Anti-football woulda prevailed over the beautiful football, which woulda not been right...

Viva Espanaa...

[squidward123]

God...I m so glad that Spain won today...Viva La Furia Roja...If Italy had won today, then it woulda been the demise of beautiful football...Anti-football woulda prevailed over the beautiful football, which woulda not been right...

Viva Espanaa...

did spain play any beautiful football tonight?

[Johannes]

did spain play any beautiful football tonight?

at least they TRIED (as opposed Italy)! and succeeded occasionally

[squidward123]

at least they TRIED (as opposed Italy)! and succeeded occasionally

i see.

It's just that his post made it sound like spain were running rings around italy with style all game and it was great to see that team win and not the other.

[Cris 09]

Please be more careful with thread titles

Whats wrong, Prawn??

[dmar]

Russians will probably have a physical edge over us. They'll try to put pressure on our midfield and attack furiously and with pace. Fortunately their defence is nothing like Italy's -and certainly is not that populated-, or even like ours. Coupled with our recent discovery of long passing, I hope that will help us in avoiding their midfield.

I'm worried about Arshavin and Ramos. I don't think this game is going to be easy, hopefully the players won't be overconfident (Casillas and Villa were downplaying the advancement to semis yesterday) and beating Italy will be a morale boost.

[Lusankya]

2010 is also in the 2000s, plus you have a world cup lying somewhere in Germany which wasn't won by any team in 2006. Go look for that Cup to fill your trophy room and leave this Euro Cup to us. ;)
I mean the first decade of the 21th century.;) Until now we won an EC every decade. And 2010 would be the first year of the next decade.

But I would grant Spain the cup. :) You're are always so unlucky.

[Prawn Sandwich]

Sorry about that. :o
Just curious, what is the time lapse before it can be added on? 24 hours I'm guessing.

No probs, easy mistake to make. And yes, the rule of thumb is 24 hours before you can indicate a result in a thread title or a thread without an [R].

I'll change the thread title back the original one you gave when the 24 hours have passed

Whats wrong, Prawn??

The original thread title gave away the result of the Spain v Italy game.