spain vs russia...

[txorakeriak]

Spain vs Russia: 4-1
(Villa 20' 45' 75', Fàbregas 90+1'; Pavlyuchenko 86')

Spain: Casillas - S. Ramos, Puyol, Marchena, Capdevila - M. Senna - Iniesta (Cazorla 63'), Xavi, D. Silva (X. Alonso 77') - D. Villa, Torres (Fàbregas 54')
Russia: Akinfeev - Anyukov, Kolodin, Shirokov, Zhirkov - Semak, Zyrianov, Semshov (Torbinskiy 58'), Bilyaletdinov -

Comments

[sophiamoon]

Thanks for another great summary of the game.

Spain did very very well, as far as I'm able to judge with my untrained eyes.

[txorakeriak]

Thanks for the comment! I really appreciate it! :)
And yeah, Spain did extremely well in that game. I'm confident they'll win against Italy if they pick up where they left off and continue playing like that. *keeps fingers crossed*

[manuanya]

i think i have to meme all your recaps because i'm way too lazy to do them but i want to remember every game. thanks for doing them!

[txorakeriak]

You're most welcome. I'm glad you enjoy them. :)

[stern_suedens]

awesome match report! I was looking forward to reading this all night. Have to work tonight & tomorrow, am so glad to have gotten back to my hotel to read this!

You do a fantastic job of giving colour to the match, and helping me understand what really happened, not just the score. I prefer reading you to most of the other stuff out there... honestly!

*glomps you!*

[txorakeriak]

Whee, glad you enjoyed this! :) And aw, thanks for the many compliments! *blushes profusely*

*glomps back*

[tie_dyed_vision]

ESPANAAAAAAA!!!!

Sorry XD but I just finished watching this match less than 10 minutes ago and I'm still riding the high.

I got a bit scared all those times Russia came close to breaking Spain's defense. But otherwise? How wonderful! Very smartly done!

You're exactly right, by the way. Xabi and Villa were trying to get the match ball, the ref didn't want to give it to them, so Xabi kept arguing. I'm not sure if he was successful in the end :-P

[txorakeriak]

No reason to apologise, I'm completely with you on this one. :D

Ah, thanks for explaining the ball issue! :D It amuses me that Xabi kept arguing for the ball. They didn't show that on German TV, unfortunately. Aw, Xabi. :D

[tie_dyed_vision]

I don't know if you ever got around to seeing this article, but it was finally explained there.

Villa said he had English-speaking team mates Pepe Reina and Xabi Alonso to thank for getting Austrian referee Konrad Plautz to agree to give him the match ball as a souvenir of his hat-trick.

"The referee said he couldn't give it to me because of a UEFA rule but Pepe and Xabi Alonso talked to him in English and managed to get the ball for me."

so much awesomeness :D

[txorakeriak]

Oh! No, I didn't see this! Thanks for showing it to me! And aww, what a cute story. :D (If I had time, I'd totally write fic about that.)

[parallelkites]

no yellow cards! wahaha i didn't even realize. how brilliant the boys are. :D

[txorakeriak]

Yeah, it seems that Spain and Russia were two of the most sportsmanlike teams of the whole tournament during the group stage. It pleases me. :)