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Nico Williams had me clasping my frontal cortex in astoundment.

Spain’s ability to win the ball back so quickly was impressive

his adaptation and biceps are top notch spain are huge favourites now

yeah, Fuente's biceps do look amazing

Spain has been a very refreshing squad to watch. I didn't think they would be this good, because on paper the squad wasn't on the level of the other candidates (France, Germany, England), but these two matches have shown that they are serious contenders to win the tournament. Great managing does make a difference, just ask England.

Fabian Ruiz was a joy in this match as an upcoming midfielder i learnt alot from him in this match

Not many enthusiastically put Spain up there as pre tournament favourites. The way this Spain side is setup provides multiple threats for an opponent to think about. If it's not the left flank with Williams, it's the right side with Yamal. Not to mention both Cucurella and Carvajal comfortable putting in crosses like wingbacks as well. If it's not the wide areas, the first goal against Croatia demonstrated the threat of through passes from any one of Rodri, Ruiz and Pedri to the striker. All three can score from long shots as well. It's like having a computer with multiple problem solving solutions.

Spain has been super impressive, what is crazy is that I don’t feel like their opposition played poorly, they just aren’t good enough as a team to compete with Spain. Obviously you never know what’ll happen but from the first two games they look amazing

Yamal and Nico are going to become a force to be reckoned with in the near future for Spain.

williams and yamal gave me lowkey some robben Ribéry vibes

Spains tactics against croatia were also spot on ..nullified the midfield and a high press caught Croatia off guard, cracked us, the second half Croatia had more posseti n and shors, but too lateSpainnadapted again and defended brilliant... they will go far in this tournament, we had the misfortune of drawing the current, .... and future.... euro champs in our group.... 😊😊😊

As I see in the thumbnail, The triangle is an element of the now-obsolete Tiki-taka, positioning and spacing are also still there. But the only element of Tiki-taka that we no longer see is the short and quick passing which is the most notable element of it. Spain now adapts the long ball while maintaining the spacing and positioning elements of the Tiki taka

Tbh I really wanted to see how Spain would play when they had the ball compared to the Croatia game where Croatia had the ball, and yes they blew me away, they played with purpose and moved the ball quickly to their wingers to cause havoc which they did. They are flexible in the middle, monsters on the flanks and good at the back coz they dealt well with Italy's counter. I see them having a great tournament if they keep playing like this.

Spain is my favourite team in this competition. Only they play the football which is enjoyable and they create a lot of possession.

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It's clear that the two strongest contenders are Germany and Spain

This Spain is fun to watch.. Better than the old tiki taka passing till death Spain.. This Spain is a lot more direct..

Fun game to watch. Lots of fouls looked soft in terms of physical plays, but Referees had whistles stuck on their mouths as well.

Spain playing free flow football ❤ England meanwhile… 😂😂

Ruiz, player of the tournament so far maybe. Been so good

Spain was so good, they could have demolished Italy at least 4 or 5-0, Germany and Spain has been the most impressive sides in my opinion, heavy favourites to win this Euros by now.

What I find interesting about this Spain is how relatively few players from Barcelona and Real are in the Squad compared to the Golden Era And that there are so many players from the Basque clubs

Germany v Spain is gonna be top notch

so this is what a tactically adept manger (bonus points for the biceps) can achieve with quality players. what a dream for all us English fans.

With these truly elite sides you don't remember how much they actually lost the ball as they win it back instantly 70% of the time. A good rest defense means you can be much braver on the ball

Spalletti made lots (and I mean lots) of wrong decisions: 1) Playing with 4-men defence line: (i) Di Lorenzo had a terrible season and his strenghts are more offensive than defensive; (ii) Darmian, Bastoni and Buongiorno are used to play in 3-men lines, so it takes less time to adjust the mechanisms; (iii) Di Marco playing as full back instead of wing back takes a lot out of his game and exposes his defensive frailities 2) Midfield selection was also terrible: (i) Pellegrini has no work rate, so Rodri was almost always free to dictate play; (ii) Frattesi is a box to box, not a playmaker. Thus, his skills were not required for this game, which required composure on the ball to defuse spanish excellent pressing off the ball; (iii) Cristante's best season was at Atalanta, playing as a box to box midfielder. I never understood why he is often deployed deep back, even as a centre back. Barella is a great all around midfielder but cant assume all the build up; he needs Jorginho and Verratti. Italy need a Gattuso to release the more technical midfielders and shield the defence, or yet another Verratti who can complete a technical line along with Jorginho and Barella. It was both a perfect game from Spain and a terrible game from Italy. A perfect storm

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Italy wasn’t bad,Spain was just too good.The fluidity of their game was unreal.

i think that more than spain adaptability, the issue has been italy's lack of ability to do so. counteracting spain was gonna be difficult, but spalletti didn't even try at the start, putting the same exact team with the same exact formation..like he was sure that spain would have to fear italy and not viceversa

You're just getting better and better at thumbnails, love it

Everyone saw the potential of de la Fuente at the Olympics, but I didn't expect the bomb that dropped when he played Nations. That's where I realised Spain had upgraded from Luis Enrique, who did a good job btw, semis in Euro and final in Nations. De la Fuente is basically Enrique with more effective penetration.

As an italian i needed to shower after that game and I'm still scared to leave the house. It's much better now after the Croatia game but i'm still traumatized

Portugal analysis please ?

I see Spain in the final

This year is Spain, Germany, or France 🎉

Could you do a series on how the best players in every position (first video on goalkeepers, second on central defenders ecc.) play differently and the systems they are most suited to?

The ad break was really good

I think spain is gonna win the euro

Great idea on how to add the ad on the the video

Classy intro😂

Thank you for what you do! You make watching and coaching football better 🙏🏻

Congrats on a new sponsor

Surprised England v Denmark not mentioned in your videos was looking forward to it

Instead of trying to play like Spain, Italy should've been more direct, playing runs in behind, trying to take more shots from outside the box and play more crosses into the box. To cause aerial threats. Which would've caused damage. Chiesa has the pace and Scamacca has the height. Pellegrini, Cristante, Jorginho have the ablity to shoot from far. Instead of thinking about being patient with the ball. Italy should have been more direct and opportunistic like classic italian teams.

Kindly make video about Portugal tactics too for this euros

Yamal, Williams, Doku, Bakayoko... Traditional Wingers are making a comeback! 👏🏿

Why de la Fuente built like that 💀🙏

I read that as "Adoption is king" Adaptation is probably less controversial

Just noticed de la Fuente's huge guns, wish we got him at Barca

Spain and Germany are the most fun teams to watch rn.

Amongst the teams who have won the WC, Spain and Germany are doing well

Hi men thanks for your great work and I have questions do you think this Spanish team can beat Didier Deschamps France as we all know dechemps is one of the best international coachs in last 12 years?

I loved Spain but I could tell Italy had one of the worst days when it comes to offensive plays and this Italian team can pass. So I'm not sure what happened. They could barely get 3 passes in a row right, multiple times the second pass was garbage. The first touch was in most occasions awful, a lot worst than it usually is, etc. I know Spain has the better side but hopefully this is not the Italy we'll see against Croacia or they will be out. I hope they make it to the knockout stages where Italy usually performs better than expected...and again, loved this Spain!

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I love this channel ahhhh

Here's a manager who actually knows a thing or two about tactics, and how to play to his players' strengths! *Cough* England *cough* . Ahem, excuse me.

you forgot to add Italy’s in possession

What is the best position for Dani olmo he's really good

Can you make these videos on every matchday, please?

call yourself a tactics channel and not talking about Germany and Austria is a crime. Need videos on these teams.

hindsight makes everything simple.

if you have better players, you can win. In coaching style there are coaches who give responsibility to players (Ancellotti and apparently the Spain coach) and system coaching (Pep, Arteta) who give players little responsibility. Kudus to Spain, the team and the staff.

The Athletic said it “looked like Man City at home v. Burnley”.

Spain will win the tournament, but it will be another thrilling final with France

What about England?

Nico Williams & Yamine Lamal that’s all I have to say. Lamal is just 16, a high ceiling. Very good the both of them yesterday. Plus 50 million release clause for Williams btw. Teams should be all over it.

España es la belleza del fútbol en estado puro. Italia se salvó literalmente de una goleada de escándalo. De momento España ha demostrado ser la mejor selección, con mucha diferencia, de la Eurocopa. ☝️🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🏆 Gracias. Saludos.

can we get austria team anayalis

Only Two games of the Euro so far, come now man.

I’m impressed with the VPN shutout, didn’t expect it

Spain 🇪🇸 🤜🏾🤛🏾💯

It's important to get Cucurella's name right. He is Spanish🇪🇸, not Italian, so his name is pronounced CUCURE “LLA” and NOT CUCURE “LA”. It's not that difficult to get it right!

can u pls make an mbappe vid

This is pbb the first time this channel outright spread misinformation. Fuente’s biceps are fu***king impressive. Spain would have lost without them.

You can put a crippled as the sole centre-back if you have Nico Williams and Amin Yamal as wingers.

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Its tactical loss for spalleti. he played cristante and di lorenzo thats bad at man mark

Romania vs ukraine next video

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De la Fuente and Spalleti, separated at birth😂

Croatia on the other hand exposed all the weaknesses of the spanish team. They were only wasteful in front of goal. Ironic: Italy should have lost 3-0 and Croatia deserved much better than what they git

Spalletti was krezi to put dilorenzo there..

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all these analysis made it seem like spain won the game 6-0. they won by 1-0 bcoz of an own goal. thats how close the game actually was bcoz of donnaruma. but yeah italy were outclassed. like utd against barca

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This is how Barcelona would be playing Next season

Spain will Win Euro24 Del la Fuente ten out of ten Spalletti Zero

Spain needs to work on their finishing…

Only if they could finish chances, they would be real contender.

They wont make it past quaterfinals

this not italy at all spaghetti failed to counteract

I wouldn't praise Spain after this game, if you actually look at the game right, Spain should realize they have lots of problems, they won cause Italy played horribly, and I mean it was amateur hour, yet they struggle to find target and spaces, at this stage of the game legs and minds are fresh, it only gets worse, and I suspect if they would play against Germany or even the Netherlands tomorrow they would lose by 2-3 goals. Again they struggled to get an (og) goal from a team of players that are not really the high stars Italy was know for

For a relatively good coach, Spalletti got completely outclassed. Italy definitely doesn’t have the same caliber of players as this Spain side, but they shot themselves in the foot by trying to play their game instead of planning to counter Spain’s tactical setup. A three man backline would’ve been a better setup with a false 9 in Chiesa to try to compete and close spaces in the midfield would’ve been a better setup (if Italy had the technical know how to play like that, of course). Leave Scamacca out, Play Bastoni, Calafiori and Darmian (or Mancini but I think Damian’s experience and intelligence would be an asset) as a back three. Then bellanova and Dimarco on the wings, and a diamond in the middle of Cristante and Barella playing box to box and supporting the width if the wingbacks get wide, Jorginho sitting back in front of the defenders cutting passing lanes, and throw in Pellegrini at the top with Chiesa having room to roam. Definitely not the best offensive setup, but will 100% be able to thrive on the counters and have enough juice defensively to shut down Spain.

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