Quote from: Docnaster on Today at 11:06:10 AM

Quote from: Asiska02 on December 09, 2022, 04:48:50 PM

Quote from: Franctoshi on December 09, 2022, 03:07:16 PM

Exactly , there was this much expectation on the Spanish team this world cup, And this amounted pressure on the entire players.
But on before the world cup, the Spanish team is not what they used to be before, there was a drop as regards to their performance, so what makes it to become a headline and a big defeat was the fact that people was not expecting a team like Morocco to send them packing.

That is what makes football so entertaining to watch. An unexpected team defeating a team that everyone expects to win a match. Spain had played their best till that point. They were able to keep Morocco at bay until penalties, despite having the majority of scoring chances in that game. To me, penalties do not assess a team's perfection, thus their exit was just unlucky for them, whereas Morocco benefited from the penalty that day.

The Spanish team did not do anything special about their team before coming to this world cup. It has been the Spanish team we used to know if you can remember in 2018 World Cup at Russia spain faced Crotia and they were able to complete 1000 passes and they could not win the match. history repeated itself against Morocco they had 1050 passes and still lost the match. most of their passes are not forward past, they pass sidewards and backward pass this is not what is needed in the World Cup to make a win and Crotia has a good penalty history

I have seen teams get the most passes in a game and still lost the game so I think the philosophy of holding possession should be accompanied with getting goals too. Against Morocco, the Spaniards held on to the ball more and got all the possession possible but couldn't break the Moroccan defense to get even a goal and when you lose a game like this all the possession gained just goes down the drain. The priority should be getting goals because goals get you the win you want not just keeping possession.