Speaking on Sky Sport 24, the Spanish national team’s best scorer ever spoke about tonight’s match against the Azzurri: “The matches between Italy and Spain are always very close”. Even if “all the players on the pitch are to be feared”, the former Barcelona player identified the main dangers: “I like Chiesa, he is technical and plays a lot vertically. The Rodri-Barella match will be decisive”
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David Villa he knows how to do it. The best scorer ever for the Red Furies (59 goals), winner of the European Championship in 2008 and the World Cup in 2010, was a guest on Sky Sport 24 at the “Home of Adidas” in Berlin. The first major victory for the Red Furies in 2008 came thanks also to a hard-fought victory on penalties in the quarter-finals against Roberto Donadoni’s Italy: “It doesn’t matter the year or the moment, There are always very close matches between Spain and Italy, the forces on the pitch are equal, there isn’t a favorite tonight either“.
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“This Spain resembles ours”
Iker Casillas, captain of Spain’s all-time champions of which Villa was the centre-forward, said that this team resembles theirs. Even the former Valencia and Barcelona player agrees: “There are some similarities. Not only for the young protagonists both in the clubs and in the national team, but also for a game idea developed with coherence“. And which still has its peculiarities: “The style is similar, the objective is to keep the ball for as long as possible. However, being able to take advantage of arrows like Williams and Yamal, it is right to play more vertically, maintain a tiki-taka base but without giving up attacking depth.” Yamal is Spain’s greatest hope, not only for the European Championship, but also for the future: “It’s difficult to say whether Yamal he could have also played in our Spain, that was a team that won everything in a short time. At 16 he is already a protagonist, he has no limits and I hope he can grow both for Spain and for Barcelona, that must become great again.”
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“I really like Chiesa, Barella-Rodri decisive challenge”
Villa also has clear ideas about Italy and its strengths: “Barella in Italy and Rodri in Spain love to play the ball a lot and are the symbolic players of the midfield, whoever lands the ball the most will have the best chance of winning the challenge. It could be a decisive duel.” However, all eyes are also on the Italian attack: “Everyone should be afraid of Italy, it’s always complicated to face their players. For my taste I really like Chiesa, technical player, fast, who knows how to score and very vertical.”
